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
Mary Tolbert: She Knew Luther When . . .
Some people you meet, and you click right away. That's how it was when I met Mary Tolbert. I think it was the Spring of 2021 when things were starting to reopen after the COVID pandemic. We were going to a casino in Charles Town, WV, on it's opening day. On the ride up we had a glorious time talking about the music acts we had seen in concert when she dropped what I consider to be a bombshell--she used to work with Luther Vandross before he got his start in the music industry. She had also met a number of other music artists in her travels. I thought I would share Mary's musical journey with you.
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