
Linda Grace Morris: Baltimore Boomer Tales from the Hood
Baltimore was the place to be in the 1950s and 1960s, bustling with all the industry and social change about to come. For African Americans, it was a jobs magnet with all the major manufacturers. Those living in Turner Station and Sparrows Point, the company town built to host the Bethlehem Steel Company, had the highest per capita income for African Americans in the nation. Cherry Hill, the only planned community built for African Americans by the Federal Government, lifted many Baltimore Boomers into the middle class. This podcast walks down memory lane through the neighborhoods and good times--despite segregation--that those growing up there can never forget.
Episodes
53 episodes
Minnie Conyers Carter, Prayze Factor Icon, Ambassador, and Gospel Award Winner
Minnie Conyers Carter has made her mark on many aspects of life in Baltimore. As with many in this generation, she is part of the Great Migration of African Americans from the south to seek better lives up north. She and her mother, Mrs. Ida Ma...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 11
•
47:57
Geraldine Wilford Wiggins: Moving on Up!
When 8-year-old Geraldine Wilford first saw New York City, she could not believe her eyes. She learned that there was a world very different from the one she was born into in Miami, Florida, and she was determined to get a piece of it. She was ...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 10
•
54:02

Sandra Aldridge Thomas Matthews: Coming of Age in the Early 1960s
Sandra Aldridge was one of the first people I noticed when I came to Payne Memorial A.M.E. Sunday School at 6 or 7 years old. She was a preteen who was beautiful and impeccably dressed. She was probably the most popular girl in Sunday School be...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 9
•
46:37

Educator and Author Dr. Warren Hayman, Ready to Share His Story!
If you are from Baltimore City, chances are your education has been touched by something that Dr. Hayman influenced, proposed, sponsored, or initiated. Having over 60 years of international experience, he has devoted his life to inspiring young...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 8
•
57:55

When Doves Fly: Joseph Yvette
Joseph Yvette is a multitalented artist who has pursued each and every one of those talents in the service of others. Born and raised in Washington, DC, she shares with me memories of growing up in Jim Crow DC and later moving out into the worl...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 7
•
38:32

Carolyn Kennedy Calhoun: Like Mother, Like Daughter!
I have my good friend, the late Maxine Richardson, to thank for my career at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Maxine was the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Officer at the National Cancer Institute when she hired me in 1980 as an EEO...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 6
•
46:08

Vivian Pinn, M.D.: From Wellesley College Ingenue to UVA Medical School Pioneer
If you were just meeting Dr. Vivian Pinn today, you might think that she was someone of Hollywood fame. She says that at one point in her very young life, she wanted to be a singer or dancer--except for the fact that she could neither sing nor ...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 5
•
35:50

Serina K. Gilbert, Back to Promise Land in Charlotte, TN
Serina is the first guest I have interviewed remotely by cell phone. It took a few minutes to get everything working together, but the wait was worth it. Someone referred her to me as having an interesting story, and she certainly does. I'm not...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 4
•
42:50

Linda Wade, Another Luck Family Lawyer
Linda Wade and her brother, William, were fortunate enough to grow up in Turner Station, a community in the shadow of the Bethlehem Steel plant in Sparrows Point, Baltimore County. I say fortunate because residents of Sparrows Point and Turner ...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 3
•
26:14

William C. Wade, Jr., M.D.: Like Father, Like Son
In this episode, you will hear from another member of the iconic Luck family. Season 1, episodes 10 and 25 featured descendants of a slave in Danville, VA, freed at the end of the Civil War, Jerry Luck. Jerry valued education because the law fo...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 2
•
37:02

Kai Jackson: Baltimore Anchorman Supreme
Kai Jackson is the most down-to-earth television personality that you ever will meet. I should have known this because we have been chatting over the past few years about me helping him with a project on Cherry Hill. A native of Washington, DC,...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 1
•
49:41

Betty Gavis Keaton Baze: Cheerleader for Cherry Hill
Betty Baze lives and breathes Cherry Hill. She was born in Cherry Hill, and with the exception of three years when she was traveling with her husband in the military, she has lived in Cherry Hill her entire life. She credits her mother as being...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 40
•
34:57
.jpg)
Sarah Harmon Windley: Coney Island Hospital Retiree
Sarah is 90 years old, but she remembers details like it was yesterday. She was a hard-working little girl because she was the oldest of four sisters. She helped with diapers and bottles as soon as her sister Mable was born 2 years after her. S...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 39
•
35:58

Woman Excels Despite Deficiencies!--Helen Harmon Rowley
Helen Harmon Rowley is a loyal daughter of Virginia's Eastern Shore. Born in Nassawadox of Northampton County in 1939, she has always wanted to live there. She had a very colorful journey to becoming a successful career educator despite deficie...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 38
•
46:23

Deborah Butler Johnson's Life Lesson: The Best Gifts Come in Small Packages
Deborah Butler Johnson is another Cherry Hill success story because of the "village" that affirmed, supported, and loved on us. When Deborah was six-years-old, she was as tall as her Mother. At about that age, she was becoming aware that her Mo...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 37
•
46:17

Rita Toy-Carr, Lost and Found Cousin
Rita Toy-Carr is a 2nd cousin gifted to me by Ancestry.com shortly before COVID hit. The reason I can remember is that I am so grateful that she got to speak with the Speaks family historian, in the oral tradition. Leon was the family's greates...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 36
•
26:21

Patricia Pinkney Gaither: Standing Her Ground!
From the moment you hear Patricia introduce herself, you can tell she is a take charge person. Her childhood and adolescence in Cherry Hill prepared her to make her way in the world. And no wonder. As it turns out, she has no-nonsense ancestors...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 36
•
1:00:14

Pastor Donald Jones, Turner Station Servant Leader
Donald Jones did not set out to be a minister. He took a very circuitous route. However, he got there, he's there. His family migrated to Baltimore in the early 1940s like so many black families searching for better lives. They moved to Baltimo...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 35
•
35:17

Cherry Hill's Own Mad (Advertising) Man, Alvin Lee
Alvin Lee shares with us his family's journey from Nova Scotia to Washington, DC, to Cherry Hill. The son of a schoolteacher and ship's waiter, this young man was destined to chart an out-of-the-ordinary course for himself, and that he did. He ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 34
•
50:00

Leon Bailey: Navy's First African American Wrestling Champion in New England
When Leon Bailey won first place for his wrestling division weighing 136 ½ pounds at the Quonset Point Navy Base in Rhode Island in 1964, he became the first African American to win a Navy wrestling championship in New England. Leon had been pr...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 33
•
35:34

Michael P. Burnside: The Rest of the Story
After ending Michael's first episode because of time constraints, I felt uneasy because there was more that needed to be said to give you the full view of Michael's journey. I had planned to publish this the following week. However, I think it ...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 32
•
19:21

Michael P. Burnside: A Story of Faith, Works, and the Good Things that Came Forth
This is a story of so many twists and turns that I had to do it in two episodes because every detail was essential. Cherry Hill is the launching point for the life that Michael has navigated so well with his faith at the core of his being. As w...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 31
•
52:42

Salima "Dolly" Siler Marriott: She put the "A" in Activism!
Salima "Dolly" Siler Marriott describes herself as a feminist activist. That seed was planted by her maternal great-grandmother, Eliza Finney Fosque, who was born in 1874 in Exmore, a small town in Accomack County on the Eastern Shore of Virgin...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 30
•
40:22

Cherry Hill Sister/Sister with Sidney Rauls Ellis and Deborah Rauls Wallace
No, they are not twins like Tia and Tamera Mowry, but they do love their hats. Sisters are special. They are our first girlfriends. They protect us and lead the way if we are little sisters. They are a pain--sometimes--if we are big sisters. Ev...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 29
•
31:44

Stephanie Amponsah Dreaming Big
Dreaming big is something we all should do. In Stephanie's case, she worked for a non-profit called Dream Big in Cherry Hill before exploring her dream in fashion. I met my Millennial friend when I was registering voters at the Cherry Hill Shop...
•
Season 1
•
Episode 28
•
23:33
