City by city, story by story, person by person , StoryCorps documents, preserves and shares history.
During a tour of several Southeastern cities, StoryCorps visited Columbus, making audio recordings June 9-13 of residents’ stories, including those about the Liberty Theatre for inclusion in StoryCorps’ “Brightness in Black” project.
StoryCorps’ website describes the project as “a celebration, a truth-telling, a showcase of the richness and complexity of Black life in America — with your stories front and center.”
“I just think it’s really hard for people to really understand that there’s history right in front of us every single day, that there are voices that, you know, not necessarily anyone’s going to ever hear,” Justin Cummins, associate director of interview collection for StoryCorps, told the Ledger-Enquirer.
Cummins said it’s important to ensure those stories don’t get lost to time…