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.

Dr. Jennifer Baumstark and Tia Tucker-Cain discuss how midwives and doulas can help improve maternal health outcomes by collaborating with traditional medical care.

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.

According to the State Department of Public Health, South Carolina ranks the 8th highest in the U.S. for maternal mortality. Dr. Kari-Claudia Allen Harrington recently joined community health worker Mike Young at SC Public Radio’s studios to discuss eliminating preventable maternal deaths in our state.

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.