This Is Your Grandfather

It's Not About the Boy

Heather Schröering has a weird fascination with collecting strangers’ old photos. But when one snapshot of a boy on a battleship in 1972 compels her to track down the owner of the photo album, she finds more than she was expecting along the way.

Remembering Obiaje

When Ashley Okwuosa’s grandfather died abruptly at a gym in Connecticut, many people were left feeling confused. This is the story of one prominent man and the five lesser men who heard his fall.

Along Came Shirley

Sage Howard tells us the story of her grandfather, Shirley Chisholm's right-hand-man. This episode explores his relationship with the political pioneer and the effect it had on the other leading woman in his life.

This Is Your Grandfather

When Will McCollister found a photograph of a grandfather he barely knew, he wasn’t prepared to learn about the man’s dark past. In this episode, McCollister struggles with whether to accept the idealized version of his grandfather or the man he actually was.