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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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