StoryCorps

In 1942, the U.S. allowed Black men to enlist in the Marine Corps for the first time. It was during World War II, and resulted in more than 19,000 Black recruits being sent to Montford Point, North Carolina for basic training. Many of those men are no longer with us, but their voices can be heard in the StoryCorps archive. These stories are part of our Military Voices Initiative. If you want to leave the StoryCorps Podcast a voicemail, call us at 702-706-TALK. Or email us at podcast@storycorps.org. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

In this special episode, we're remembering StoryCorps participant Rick Abath, who talked to his wife, Diana, about being on guard during the biggest art heist in history. Rick died last month at the age of 57. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

As we close out our special series celebrating 20 years of StoryCorps, hear how our One Small Step initiative is helping to facilitate a national conversation by bringing people together from across the political spectrum. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

This week, we're taking a break from our special series celebrating 20 years of StoryCorps to bring you an interview recorded just days ago. It's an update to a story recorded around the holidays back in 2012, and we just had to share it. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

Mary Johnson-Roy first came to StoryCorps in 2011 to speak with Oshea Israel, the man who murdered her son. In the latest episode from our special series celebrating StoryCorps' 20th anniversary, we'll share updates on a conversation none of us imagined would happen back when StoryCorps started. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

StoryCorps' initiatives have long helped us gather voices that are usually omitted from the historical record, like our LGBTQ+ Outloud initiative. In our continuing celebration of twenty years of StoryCorps, we're sharing some of our favorite recordings from that collection... and how a story close to our founder Dave Isay's heart helped lead to its creation. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

For most of StoryCorps' existence, we've recorded people in person at our storybooths. But on this episode of our special series celebrating 20 years of StoryCorps, we're looking back to when we stepped outside the recording booth to capture stories. Sometimes because we wanted to hear new voices... and sometimes because we had to. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

As we celebrate StoryCorps' 20th anniversary, we bring you the story of a man who integrated his high school as a teenager in Knoxville, Tennessee, and how a StoryCorps listener comment helped him reckon with his past five decades later. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

In the third episode of our special series celebrating two decades of StoryCorps, we're bringing you inside the Mobile Booth—the recording studio we built in a trailer to circle the country, capturing voices that would otherwise never be recorded. Hear some of our favorite stories from the road, and from the people who haul the trailer on a never-ending road trip. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

As we continue celebrating StoryCorps' 20th anniversary, we bring you two of our favorite stories that made a strong impression on our listeners, and we share updates with the participants from the last two decades. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

In this episode, we go back 20 years to the origins of StoryCorps–the challenges of building a recording booth in Grand Central Terminal– and we catch up with the participants from the first ever radio story we broadcast on NPR. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

As StoryCorps' 20th anniversary approaches, we'll be looking back at important moments both in our history and the country's. This week — one more short story from our Military Voices Initiative. Sergeant Ocean Subiono tells his father, Russell Subiono, about what happened when he tried to enlist. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

In celebration of our 20th Anniversary, StoryCorps will be revisiting some of our most memorable conversations from the past two decades. This week, we announce an upcoming special series with this short story from our Military Voices Initiative. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

There are people who help us at every stage of life –– from the moment we're born to our last breath. But at the end, who's helping us when we're gone? On the season finale of the StoryCorps Podcast, twin mortician brothers look back on a life of caring for the dead. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

When a train ride to work veers into a life or death situation, two strangers become an important part of each other's lives. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

50 years ago, most of the nation was glued to "gavel-to-gavel" coverage of the Senate Watergate hearings that would uncover major abuses of power by the Nixon administration. In this episode – how a decision to speak up blew the lid off the largest political scandal in American history. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

Monique "Muffie" Mousseau and her partner Felipa Deleon grew up on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. In this episode, they share the long and sometimes painful journey of fighting for their love, their community, and their ancestors...all while making history. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

Jason Romero was given a serious diagnosis. But to stop running from it he'd have to do something no one had ever done before. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

In 1920, a father made a split-second decision to save his newborn's life by taking her to an incubator exhibit at Coney Island. We meet her in this episode, and she shares how a sideshow attraction saved her life, and thousands of others, when hospitals couldn't, ultimately changing the course of American medicine. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy

In 1968, just moments after Robert F. Kennedy was shot, a young photographer for The Los Angeles Times — Boris Yaro — captured the scene in an image that's haunted the nation ever since. In this episode of the StoryCorps podcast, we remember RFK and we revisit the story of that famous photo. Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoices NPR Privacy Policy