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
Joseph Harrison Ager, Reaching Out from NIH to HBCUs for a New Generation of Scientists
If you know of any African American research scientists/medical doctors 50 and under, chances are they came through some training experience funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). If they did, they were probably introduced to the NIH by Joe Ager. I had a front row seat at the NIH to watch how Joe and several other colleagues traded their careers in the labs to become EEO Officers for the various Institutes so that their mission of finding the cures could transition to the next generation of scientists of color. This was no easy task because as with every turn we take into the professions, our intellectual capacity is always doubted--especially if we matriculated at HBCUs. I was captivated as Joe shared his journey from Shelby, NC, to the heights of the biomedical research establishment. I know you will be too.
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