by Femi Redwood

Nathan: Hello. Welcome to this week’s Story Update. This week, we’re going to be speaking with Femi Redwood, who shared her story with us almost six years ago. So before we s...

by Ashley Jackson

Nathan:  Hello, I’m Nathan Manske. I’m the Founder and Executive Director of I’m From Driftwood. For this week’s Story Update, we’re going to hear from Ashley Jackson, ...

by Jourdan Porter

Hi. I’m Jourdan Porter. I am from Davidson, North Carolina. In tenth grade, I was living right outside Jackson, Mississippi. And it was pretty early in the school year and I had...

by Nicole Modjeski

I am Nicole Modjeski and I’m from Jackson, Mississippi. My mother was a single parent mom and we lived in the Spring Ridge Road Mobile Estates which is basically a trailer park....

by Cody Walker

My name is Cody Walker I’m from Satartia, Mississippi, it’s a town of about 80 people and close to The Delta right outside of Yazoo City. In 2010 I met these 2 guys, Steve and...

by Alexa Espinal

My name’s Alexa Espinal and I’m from New York City. I recently came to Mississippi about four months ago to teach. I’m teaching middle school art, so I teach 6th, 7th, and 8...

by Femi Redwood

I’m Femi Redwood. I’m from Milton, Delaware, which is about 15 minutes outside of Rehoboth Beach. Teeny tiny little place in Delaware, with about 13 black people, so 6 of them...

by Jason Bishop

Being a gay 6th grader sucks. It was particularly bad for me in Mississippi in 1985. Life sucked at school, it was horrible, every day I was tortured, it was just horrible. “Sis...

by Daniel Cook

When Daniel came out at 15, his parents gave him two options. “One, you can either leave right now. Just get your stuff and go. Or two, we’re going to enroll you into a Christ...