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Cousins James Ransom and Cherie Johnson recall their fearsome Sunday school teacher, Miss Lizzie Devine, the only woman who had more power than their grandmother.  Set in the small Florida town of the cousins' memories, this animation resounds with the joy of sharing stories with family.

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“I’m a mother. And I don’t know what to say.” As active shooter drills become integrated into schools across the country, students must grapple with the threat of school shootings. This is the case for ten-year-old Dezmond Floyd, who has an open discussion with his mother Tanai about what happens in his fifth grade class during his school’s active shooter drills. Dezmond explains step-by-step what his class has been taught to do during an active shooter situation.

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MJ Seide never thought that she would live a happy, fulfilling life. Then she met her future partner, who at the time had been married to a man and raising children. The two fell in love and MJ got to know her new extended family — including her granddaughter, Genna Alperin.

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In 2000, Maria Rivas immigrated from El Salvador to the United States. A year later, she received Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to stay and work legally in the U.S. TPS is set to expire for people from El Salvador in September of 2019. But if Maria is forced to leave the U.S., she won’t risk taking her American-born children with her — and her 15-year-old daughter Emily will stay behind to live with close family friends.Faced with the possibility of being separated from her children, Maria remembers the promise that she made to her daughter Emily.
UPDATE: The government has extended TPS for people from El Salvador through January 4, 2021, after being blocked in court.

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Days after the 2016 election, a Muslim student at the University of Texas came to a march protesting the election of Donald Trump. Attending the same rally was a Trump supporter sporting a sign that read “Proud to Be Deplorable” and a “Make America Great Again” cap. Watch this conversation between two people who, despite being on opposite ends of the political spectrum, remember a moment that day that unexpectedly brought them together.

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Judge Olly Neal grew up in Arkansas during the ’50s and didn’t care much for high school. One day he wandered into the library, where he came across a book by African-American author Frank Yerby. The cover piqued his interest, but Olly didn’t want to risk his reputation by letting his classmates see him voluntarily reading. So rather than check out the book, he stole it. He recounts how this book — and a little nudge from two helpful librarians — turned him around academically.

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Kay 🤬 was a strong-willed grandmother who was reluctantly taken to a StoryCorps booth by her son and granddaughter. Though Kay resisted, she still had stories to tell—from disobeying her mother and rebuffing suitors while growing up in China to late-life adventures as a detective for Bloomingdale's department store. Kay passed away just weeks after that interview, and her son and granddaughter returned to StoryCorps to remember her gentler side, which she kept to herself.

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Jenn Stanley is a self-described liberal. Her father, Peter Stanley, votes Republican. Over time, a deepening chasm between them made it difficult to talk about the things they care about — until they sat down to try and listen to each other’s points of view.

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She remembers the life lessons her grandmother taught her in the kitchen 

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She remembers the life lessons her grandmother taught her in the kitchen 

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Chloe Longfellow started spending more time with her grandmother Doris after her father died when she was 3. The lessons her grandmother taught her have stayed with her to this day.

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Sometimes it takes a great love to make you feel like you belong. Lyle Link wasn’t cut out for farming, but in his marriage to a fellow adventurer he found his purpose.

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Allen Hoe was as a combat medic in Vietnam. His oldest son, Nainoa K. Hoe, served as a first lieutenant infantry officer with the Army’s 3rd Battalion in Iraq. In January 2005, while leading his men through Mosul, Iraq, Nainoa was killed by sniper fire. He was 27. On Memorial Day in 2005, Allen traveled from Hawaii to Washington, D.C. for an event honoring Army nurses returning home from the war. He remembers meeting the Army nurse who had cared for his son after he had been shot and killed during combat in Mosul, Iraq.

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Blanca Alvarez and her husband risked crossing the border to immigrate into the U.S. and then struggled to make ends meet.  They hoped to shelter their children from these harsh realities, but Blanca's daughter Connie reveals how much children can really see of their parents' lives—and the inspiration they draw from their struggles.

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Mohammad Ashraf Faridi immigrated from Pakistan to the United States in the 1980s. He settled in New York City, and his family joined him almost a decade later. By then, Mohammad was earning a living driving a cab. His oldest son, Muhammad, opens up to him about growing up as the son of a taxi driver.

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Ellaraino experienced a common teenage reaction when she learned she’d have to leave Los Angeles to spend the summer in Louisiana with her great-grandmother, Silvia. Less common was Ellaraino’s realization that Silvia had lived through the Civil War, and had a lot to teach her great-granddaughter about the true meaning of freedom.

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I think it’s important so then we can see what people did in the past

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I think it’s important to preserve our history because in the future your great-great grandkids want to hear there family past.

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I think its important how some people talk about their stories so that others can learn from them.

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It is important to preserve our history because that could be something remembered by and because you and everyone that knows your history will never forget it

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Its important to preserve our history so we can learn about others experiences

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It’s important that our history is preserved so we don’t forget about how we overcame those hard times.

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It’s important because so we don’t forget the bad parts of life and just remember the good parts of life.

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It’s important to tell to every generation

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I think that its important to preserve our past to learn from our mistakes.

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I like all of these veidios  because they were Emotionaly  helpful.

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Cayleigh Sh epherd:I love how in some of these stories through accomplish something but some were very very sad and it is important because things in the past might be important 

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Cayleigh Sh epherd:I love how in some of these stories through accomplish something but some were very very sad and it is important because things in the past might be important 

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It’s important to preserve our history so we don’t forget our past and so we can teach other kids and people.I really like how all the videos are illustrated very well and pretty. They express their feelings with the art so we can have a better understanding. :)

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So it doesn’t go away it’s important because it’s something that actually happend]

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So it doesn’t go away it’s important because it’s something that actually happend]

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It is important to remember history so that it never gets forgotten .

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It is important to preserve our history because we need to know what happened back in the day because it is very important to our history