Storycorps

Robert Feinstein and Jessica Elfenbein sat down with StoryCorps to reflect on how South Carolina ticked all the boxes on a checklist they had compiled long before considering their move to Columbia.

Cecil Williams is well-known as a chronicler of the Civil Rights Movement in South Carolina and the founder of the South Carolina Civil Rights Museum. In 2024, Williams joined University of South Carolina history professor Bobby Donaldson at StoryCorps to share how his love of photography evolved into a passionate, lifelong career.

Columbia residents Irene Tyson and Reba Campbell met nearly 40 years ago while living in Washington D.C., where regular gatherings at a small supper club evolved into a lifelong friendship.

Harvest Hope Food Bank partners with local farmers like Willie Capehart. He joined board member Yvonne Johnson at StoryCorps to discuss their work for South Carolina’s largest food bank, and why it matters to the communities it serves.

After more than 30 years, Fielding Freed still lives with the pain of his brother’s death. He joined his wife, Lana Burgess, at StoryCorps to explain how losing a loved one to suicide affects those who are left behind.

In 2024, broadcaster Don Frierson and musician 2Ru3 met up at StoryCorps to discuss how music, particularly in the African American culture, has changed between their generations and what those shifts reveal about the culture itself.

When COVID-19 patient Len Fouch awoke in a Spartanburg ICU on February 4, 2021, he found himself in soft restraints to prevent him from pulling out his tubes, and a nurse named Cat Wynkoop was reassuring him that she was taking care of him, and that he would be okay.

Sally Garris met the man who would eventually become husband while attending Erskine College. He took an academic pause to serve in the U.S. military, and during that time, he and Sally stayed in touch not only by exchanging letters, but also through their shared love of the Atlanta Braves.

South Carolina newlyweds Jamal and Adrienne Davis looked forward to having children, but soon began encountering fertility issues. Through their struggle, they began to see social and spiritual encounters through a brand-new lens.

Each day, close to 24 million women across the country head out to work after tending to their children. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, working moms account for nearly one-third of all employed women.