Stories by Stephon™

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The Living Documentary · In Progress

The story is gathering around me.

Some stories begin with something I see or hear. Others start with a memory, a question or a moment I want to understand better. This is where I keep track of the stories taking shape around me and figure out what they might become.

Stories by Stephon™
Stephon Dingle as a toddler with his mother at a family birthday party in 1991.

Family archive: A portrait memoir

My Mother’s Story

A young mother’s life marked by trauma, drugs, grief and survival—and the love, sacrifice and unfinished questions her firstborn son is still learning how to hold.

Undated Alabama Department of Corrections photograph of Tommy Arthur.

Archive and video · Witness

The Night I Became a Witness

In 2017, after seven earlier execution dates were delayed, Tommy Arthur was executed on Alabama’s eighth attempt. I witnessed it for the press pool—and became responsible for telling the public what it could not see.

Photo: Alabama Department of Corrections/AP, via CBS News

Stephon Dingle seated in a studio portrait.

Field notes · Building in public

What I Have Been Building

A journalist learning entrepreneurship while building The Narrative Company and Stories by Stephon—and widening access to the power of understanding your own story.

Stephon Dingle with his wife and their daughter Devyn during a family outing.

Fatherhood archive · Devyn & Daddy

Growing alongside my Suga.

A living family archive of fatherhood in motion—how Devyn is teaching me to inherit joy, practice tenderness and grow into the man she already believes I am.

Help a story take form

Follow what is becoming.

These stories are still gathering evidence, memory, images and form. Commission work with a clear purpose, build a values-aligned partnership, bring a source I should hear or help protect the time and care the reporting requires.

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