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Linda Grace Morris: Baltimore Boomer Tales from the Hood episodes
- Ella Gross: A Friend for All Seasons
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Ella Gross is another friend from my childhood. We were children in the same church, and we later met up in high school. We have maintained our friendship through the years just hanging out occasionally and fellowshipping over Ella's cooking. She makes a mean kidney stew and waffles and bakes great cakes for all occasions.
Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.
16 min - Kenny Abrams: President, Towson University's Black Alumni Alliance
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Whenever Towson's black students need anything done, Kenny Abrams is the go-to man. This Generation X leader has been influential in the University reckoning with its racial slights of the past. From the naming of a dormitory in honor of Towson's two first black graduates or coordinating support for a bust of the first Dean of Minority Affairs, Kenny was involved. In this episode, Kenny discusses August being Black Philanthropy Month and how to use fundraising promotions offered on Friday, August 8, strategically for maximum impact.
Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.
34 min - Terry M. Banks, Esq., More Luck Family Values
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Terry Banks is the nephew of Cherry Hill's Dr. Jerry Luck. He grew up as the only child, and was the son of Dr. Luck's oldest sister, Theresa, and William Banks. His parents were educators, and his mother taught at several Baltimore schools, including Northern High School from which she retired as a counselor. Terry says that Jerry, Jr., and his brother, Larry, were more like brothers than cousins. Terry discusses the Luck family's education ethic and his path to becoming an attorney.
Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.
43 min - Rethia Roach Nickerson: Make New Friends, But Keep the Old!
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I first met Rethia Roach in my early years at Cherry Hill Elementary School #159. She lived right in front of the school. How neat! I caught up with her as she was visiting with Jacqueline Sewell Thomas, the subject of Episode 17. We had a wonderful time discussing our life in Cherry Hill.
Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.
30 min - William H. Murphy, Jr., Esq.--Descendant of a Signer of the Declaration of Independence
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Baltimore's Billy Murphy truly is a man of the people. Ironically, Billy is a member of the Silent Generation. However, silent he has never been. Everyone knows of his legal prowess from him winning some of the most prominent cases of our time. He is a crusader for the underrepresented and the downtrodden. The only thing he is missing is his superhero's cape. However, he is too modest to even accept the notion that he is one. Hear a side of Billy that you might not have heard before.
Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.
43 min - Nicole Fabricant, Ph.D.: Professor with a Cause--or Two or Three!
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It is hard to imagine that Dr. Nicole Fabricant, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Sociology, and Criminal Justice at Towson University, takes time to eat and sleep. She is a ball of energy modeling passionate involvement for her students with causes that impact their lives. I met Nicole, a member of Generation X, when I was introduced to the community garden that used to be in Cherry Hill. There, her students were documenting garden social dynamics. They were very energized by the campaign to save the site that the garden occupied, but the garden was eventually relocated. Listen as Nicole shares her upbringing and how she got to Baltimore.
Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.
33 min - The Art of Twinning with Juanita Montez Eberra Guess and Anita June Eberra Nash
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As pictured above from left to right, Juanita and Anita are identical twins. When I booked this interview, my assumption was that they would talk about how similar they are. However, to my surprise, they expressed their differences. Listen to their journey as twins and hear how each has traveled through time as a twin, but also individual women. As noted in the interview, Anita is the wife of former Harlem Globetrotter, Dave Nash, the subject of Episode 6.
Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.
36 min - Rose Backus Davis Hamm: A Reason to Want to Go to the Principal's Office
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Rose Backus Davis Hamm is the wife of Leonard Hamm, the subject of Episode 16. Rose began her professional life with the Baltimore Public School System doing crisis intervention teaching. She ended as principal of the Frederick Douglass High School. Rose shares with us the story of her life and her innovative career in education.
Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.
46 min - Rev. Michael C. Braxton, Sr.--Yes, That Braxton Family!
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Although this podcast is not necessarily about Cherry Hill, Cherry Hill is a recurring theme because that was my home for my elementary school years, and I have made a lot of contacts since writing the Cherry Hill book. Rev. Braxton contributed a piece to the book about neighbors loading up their cars on Sunday morning--way before seat belts--with the neighborhood kids and dropping them off to Sunday School. You know the adage that it takes a village, well Cherry Hill was our village, and all the adults took care of the children. Hear more about the path Rev. Braxton took to get to where he is today. Reflection is good for the soul.
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41 min - Speaks Family Matters!
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When my cousins and I get together, it's like a pajama party. We always find some morsel of information about the family that we did not know. When my grandparents, Alfred Louis and Mary Ann Kellam Speaks, got married, they had 9 children of 12 that survived to adulthood--8 girls and 1 boy. They were, in order, Rosina Speaks Wiggins, Mary Speaks Harmon McGuire, Margaret Speaks Russell, Julia Speaks Young, Dorothy Speaks Henson Mayes, Alfred Louis Speaks, Jr., Armenella Speaks Morris, Thelma Speaks White, and Hilda Grace Speaks. Aunt Mary was the last surviving sibling, and she died in July 2012, 4 months shy of her 100th birthday. This episode focuses on the house that played a pivotal role in all our lives, 517 N. Gilmor Street.
Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.
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About Linda Grace Morris: Baltimore Boomer Tales from the Hood
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Baltimore was the place to be in the 1950s and 1960s, bustling with all the industry and social change about to come. For African Americans, it was a jobs magnet with all the major manufacturers.…
Those living in Turner Station and Sparrows Point, the company town built to host the Bethlehem Steel Company, had the highest per capita income for African Americans in the nation. Cherry Hill, the only planned community built for African Americans by the Federal Government, lifted many Baltimore Boomers into the middle class. This podcast walks down memory lane through the neighborhoods and good times--despite segregation--that those growing up there can never forget.