StoryCorps Griot project records oral histories of LA’s African American community | 89.3 KPCC

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"The documentary project StoryCorps allows people to share significant moments in their lives in a conversation that’s recorded for posterity. The StoryCorps crew is in Los Angeles for the next month to record African American oral histories for a national archive. KPCC’s Shirley Jahad has this story from Thursday's opening outside the California African American History Museum in LA’s Exposition Park.

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Inside the StoryCorps mobile recording studio, something happens that is both ordinary and profound.

“Our mission is to record, preserve and share the stories of every day Americans," says StoryCorps’ Marquita James.

Participants sit inside and engage in conversation with a loved one. They often come out having discovered something they never knew before.

“It’s really simple. We want to encourage people to talk to each other on a deeper level," says James. "We hope if we have enough of these conversations and if we travel enough of the country we will begin to in some small way transform the way that Americans relate to each other...."

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