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Patterns All Over the Country

"If you have a city that's like a one-trick pony... if those industries go down, then you're in trouble." https://youtu.be/xmmvzBlSr1I This is part 1 of a 3-part series. Part 2: An Equalizer Part 3: Interval to Cure Cancer Hold a...
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Here in Gary

"I wouldn't want to live any other place." https://youtu.be/AvQX1E-zhog 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 use the questions for reflection for one...
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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...
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People Have Their Attitudes

"If this is the expectation that people have of a new pastor coming to Gary, I need to live in Gary." [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/297876905" 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. Produced by...
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Vibrant, Vital, Crazy Place to Live

“Gary had taught him more about love and hate and life and death than he could have learned anywhere else.” [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/297875530" 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 Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit...
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We’ve Got Flight, Period

“There were a lot of strong community events that really kind of glued people together, and then of course, they dissipated over time.” [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/297105436" 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 Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps,...
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It Was a Pretty Heady Time

"As far as the mood in the neighborhood, I don’t remember talking or hearing about a lot of people that were steadfast saying, ‘Hey, I’m gonna stay here and stick it out.’" [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/288422686" params="color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false" width="100%" height="166" iframe="true" /]  ...
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Race Relations

"Yeah, you’d hear somebody saying something stupid every once in awhile… the few, not the many." [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/288421000" 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 conversation about this story? Where? With whom? What kinds...
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What Kind of Legacy

“The ceiling had opened up a little bit more. Black people were able then to move.” [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/291223120" 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...
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