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.
Linda Grace Morris: Baltimore Boomer Tales from the Hood
Nicole Fabricant, Ph.D.: Professor with a Cause--or Two or Three!
It is hard to imagine that Dr. Nicole Fabricant, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Sociology, and Criminal Justice at Towson University, takes time to eat and sleep. She is a ball of energy modeling passionate involvement for her students with causes that impact their lives. I met Nicole, a member of Generation X, when I was introduced to the community garden that used to be in Cherry Hill. There, her students were documenting garden social dynamics. They were very energized by the campaign to save the site that the garden occupied, but the garden was eventually relocated. Listen as Nicole shares her upbringing and how she got to Baltimore.
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