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Black Mecca
"That period of time—growing up in Gary, Indiana, I would not want to be anywhere else in the world." https://youtu.be/KPW16J21zXs Editing by Welcome Project intern Brandi Casada. Transcript for Black Mecca 1967 is when Mayor Hatcher won. And I was...
But I’m Still Here
"The doctor...made a comment, 'Oh, the girl doesn’t have a chance.'" https://youtu.be/W0FvxNO6TRY This is part one of a two-part story. Transcript for But I'm Still Here This goes way back to before the Emancipation Proclamation. My grandfather’s father was born...
Real, Basic Obligations
"We often don’t think about how the little things build up to create that relationship that you want with people you live around." [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/532968876&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"] Produced by Marc Boas from an interview conducted by Emily...
Game Changer
"It became my mission to change the way people saw Gary, how people saw people of color, and the knowledge they had of people of color because it was hurtful." Paste Soundcloud or YouTube code here. [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no"...
Me Coming Home
"...the Mexican-American community in the United States – it wasn't really taught in high school." https://youtu.be/7RlvTsqhRMc Transcript for Me Coming Home That’s another mentality, too. Growing up in East Chicago, everyone wanted to know where you were. And you always...
International Education at Valparaiso University – An Oral History
“The goal was always to get more students here and get more of our students to go abroad.” The following stories, edited by Nick Ladeau, offer a portrait of how international education was established and developed at Valparaiso University. Study...
“Us/Them” Mentality
“If you're such a tight part of a certain community, you are more likely to see everyone else as the other." [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1107249775&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"]Welcome Project at Valparaiso University · "Us/Them" Mentality Transcript for “Us/Them” Mentality I...
Shocking
"Being exposed to [people of different races] helped me... so I never really faced the same challenges that my parents probably did." https://youtu.be/StopTyM_TWA Edited by Nick Ladeau. Transcript for Shocking It's actually difficult a little bit because, I mean, I...
It Doesn’t Just Happen…
"The University needs to do more than putting a bunch of different kinds of people in one spot and hoping they interact with each other." [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/77256581" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading...