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Cool to Be Different
"By playing [Thai] music, people recognize me as Thai." [soundcloud url="http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/80215160" params="" width=" 100%" height="166" iframe="true" /] Hold a Conversation In addition to the questions below, please see How to use the questions for reflection. Clarifying Questions How does the speaker...
An Equalizer
"Whether you’re white or black, once you hit the bandstand, then you’re on your own... If you can play, you can play. If you can’t, you can’t." https://youtu.be/OqnWBZvvGCQ This is part 2 of a 3-part series. Part 1: Patterns All...
Interval to Cure Cancer
"I don't have any days that I can waste." https://youtu.be/m1yH0LYd08k This is part 3 of a 3-part series. Part 1: Patterns All Over the Country Part 2: An Equalizer Hold a Conversation Can you imagine leading a conversation about this...
Life has Yin and Yang
"Key things happen in your life that trigger you… put you on your path." [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/536024472%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-cHhOH&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"] Produced by Dan Funderburg. Thanks to the Office of Multicultural Programs for organizing a story collection day during the...
Praying Hands
"I remember watching this church being built." https://youtu.be/AT9DvjpIWtE – Mrs. Felicia Rhetta Childress, confirmed in St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in 1955. Produced by Perry Lerit. Transcript for Praying Hands I remember the people in St. Augustine's [St. Augustine's Episcopal Church...
Bigger Forces Swirling
"I realized that my little Wonder Bread existence in Miller was not quite what I thought it was." https://youtu.be/FJ-Upndyw_g Transcript for Bigger Forces Swirling I grew up in the Miller section of Gary in the late 1960s through the ‘70s,...
The Other Side of Life
"Had it not been for this gentleman here, I would have much easier graduated from reform school than high school." [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/804085633&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"] Produced by Rich Elliott with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose...
Connective Tissue
"...that was fascinating, having a process where I feel I really met those actors and that creative team and really shared something with them. But I’ve never met them in real life." [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1046147239&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"]Welcome Project...