![StoryCorps logo](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/917d68f/2147483647/strip/true/crop/900x900+0+0/resize/280x280!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fbd%2Fd4%2Fc97003f745a9a10cb62d0b22aea1%2Fsc-square.png)
StoryCorps provides Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives.
Since Dave Isay founded StoryCorps in 2003, the organization has provided more than 100,000 Americans with access to a quiet booth and platform to record and share interviews about their lives. These Conversations are archived at the U.S. Library of Congress.
At the heart of StoryCorps is a simple, timeless idea: provide two friends or loved ones with a quiet space and 40 minutes of uninterrupted time for a meaningful face-to-face conversation that will be preserved for generations to come. StoryCorps seeks out the stories of people most often excluded from the historical record and preserves them so that the experience and wisdom contained within them may be passed from one generation to the next.
-
As part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer in 1964, civil rights groups ran summer schools to educate Black children. We hear from six former students who look back on their experiences.
-
In this week's StoryCorps, we hear about a pioneer who helped women's judo become an Olympic sport.
-
In this week's StoryCorps, Michael Rogers came to the StoryCorps booth to talk about how his work as a death doula changed his perspective on life.
-
The former Republican party chair in Columbus, Ga., chats with the former head of the local NAACP chapter for “One Small Step” -- a StoryCorps effort to bring together people with different political beliefs.
-
In this week's StoryCorps, a couple talks about how they met and fell in love thanks to ballroom dancing.
-
Sisters Mai Lo Lee and Beth Lo, who grew up in a large Hmong family, recall their youth spent in a refugee camp in Thailand and on a ginseng farm in Wisconsin.
-
In this week's StoryCorps, a father and daughter talk about bonding over their shared love of beatboxing.
-
In this week's StoryCorps, a woman talks with her wife about becoming the first openly gay bishop in the United Methodist Church.
-
In this week's StoryCorps, a husband and wife talk about losing everything in a Colorado wildfire.
-
A father shares life lessons and dad jokes with his daughter