Tag: race
You’re Not White
"It was like something switched in my head..." https://youtu.be/klbrclhTh7U Edited by Thu Nguyen. Transcript for You're Not White When I look back at a lot of things, I’m viewing them through a different lens, you know, and so I’m trying...
Vulnerability Is Power
"If you can find security in where you are, then you can open up your ability to be vulnerable." [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/607600482%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-aekvv&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"] Produced by intern Marcus Boas. Vulnerability Is Power I started to understand during my...
Just Got the Impression
"All they saw was the violence. They did not see the peace. They did not see the change." https://youtu.be/xJwnnJ7YAmw Transcript for Just Got the Impression I grew up in the Tolleston area of Gary which was, at the time, very...
Learn from the Past to Build a Future
"There should be an allegiance to Gary to build it up and make it prosper once again." https://youtu.be/gtphIVBMxOA Transcript for Learn from the Past to Build a Future As a history major, I know that we learn from the past...
Lives That Are Totally Alien
"The use of the car, I think, has dramatically changed the way people live." https://youtu.be/gOBG4207ABw Transcript for Lives That Are Totally Alien It used to be that people could either walk to downtown Gary or take a bus and the...
Hitting Home
"I was starting to grow up and see things the way my parents were seeing them." https://youtu.be/G44IXUlKZKM Transcript for Hitting Home The school I went to in Detroit was what they say now was integrated. When I came here to...
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,...
Back Then, It Mattered
"So these are things that I kind of learned that I didn’t realize I was learning." https://youtu.be/LNAsOt9SGPA Transcript for Back Then, It Mattered I’m Croatian. And when I was a kid, it mattered. My dad was Croatian, my grandfather, George...
Remember Where You Came From
"You can never forget who you are." https://youtu.be/FYjndEmJH4c Transcript for Remember Where You Came From I say to my grandkids all the time, you can never forget who you are, but you have to remember where you come from. You...