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Getting on Your Feet, Staying on Your Feet
Three audio stories from a woman's experience of family, drug use, recovery, and homelessness These stories are from the Invisible Project, a collaboration between the Welcome Project and Porter County Coalition for Affordable Housing, Housing Opportunities, Gabriel's Horn, Dayspring Women's...
Perspective
"When you get to school, you the brother... and when you come home, you the white boy." https://youtu.be/27LUWGUXuts Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a conversation about this story? Where? With whom? What kinds of questions would you pose?...
The Weight I Carry
"I don't want to be a failure. I don't want to let my people down." https://youtu.be/6UsWBkohUo8 Hear more from this storyteller in Confidence Booster. Transcript for The Weight I Carry I was born and raised in Little Village, Chicago....
Had to Been a Journey for You
"All the people I knew and cared about were in Gary… It was a massive culture shock." [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/289807016" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Produced by Sydney Jarol with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is...
Strong Block Club
“Even though we’ve had change in homeownership, the neighborhood is still viable in 2016.” [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/291204587" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Produced by Sydney Jarol with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans...
Didn’t Want Us To Grow Up Thinking the World Was Terrible
“The type of things my parents experienced, the type of racism was very interesting… it’s something my mother’s never really wanted to talk about.” [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/304807616" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a...
Down the Block
"Grade school was good; y'know, everybody got along, and then they started to have fights in Tolleston park." [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/307912884" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] This story is part of our Flight Paths initiative. Hold a Conversation Can you...
I Couldn’t Waste Her Potential
"I fled Gary also, but it wasn't entirely because of fear, it had nothing to do with anyone's skin color..." https://youtu.be/9bhpkF9IfPk Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a conversation about this story? Where? With whom? What kinds of questions...
House That Love Bought
“After my dad passed away, we were certain my mother would finally leave Gary.” https://youtu.be/s_QEj0iK8qQ Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a conversation about this story? Where? With whom? What kinds of questions would you pose? (See How to...