From the day he was born, Kaito Winse was meant to preserve history. Like his father and grandfather before him, the Avalanche Kaito frontman is a griot, an oral storyteller, musician, singer, and ...

Lawrence-Williams, along with fellow Black storytellers, came together to celebrate the rich heritage of griot storytelling and pay homage to the legacy of “Mother Griot,” Mary Carter Smith.

Griots like Galissa play a harp-like instrument called the kora to sing about this history. “This instrument is a part of our life — a part of my life,” he says.

In this week's installment of StoryCorps Griot, sisters Ola Mae Logan Allen and Yvonne Logan Jones remember their parents, who migrated from Louisiana to Detroit in the late 1940s.

In this week's StoryCorps Griot Initiative, Clayton Hall remembers his first day as one of the few blacks enrolled at Virginia Military Institute. In 1975, Hall enrolled at VMI, where he was one ...