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
67 episodes
Shirley Brown: Bringing Young People to God
Shirley Brown has been a light to others her entire life. In this episode, she shares with us some of the positivity she exudes as she continues her journey leading young people to God.
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Episode 26
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39:21
Billy Murphy in Conversation with John Morris: From Young Lawyers to Seasoned Attorneys
We usually see lawyers publicly in terms of the cases they are representing. This episode reflects the thinking and lessons learned over the course of a lifetime in the legal profession for these two Baltimore lawyers. Observe them today as two...
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Episode 25
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52:23
Michael Eugene Johnson: Serving Popcorn and Nostalgia at the Pikes Studio Cinema
The Pikes Theater has been a landmark on Reisterstown Road since forever. It has gone through several iterations, the most recent being as a very intimate setting for viewing your favorite movies with food you choose to order from one of the ne...
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Episode 24
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37:21
Robert "Bobby" Maith: Life in the Garden of Eden, AKA Cherry Hill
Bobby Maith, the oldest child of Mrs. Dorothy Maith of Episode 22, once said that growing up in Cherry Hill was like living in the Garden of Eden with all the lush foliage, fruit trees, and wooded areas that we had. Mr. Maith, Bobby's dad, prov...
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Episode 23
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55:13
Mrs. Dorothy Maith: Over a Century of Memories!
Mrs. Dorothy Maith is 102 years old. She was born in the Rossville area of Baltimore County and was a member of the first class to graduate from Baltimore City's Dunbar High School in 1941. She and her husband, Robert, Sr., bought a house in Ch...
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Episode 22
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45:58
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 op...
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Episode 21
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30:14
The Simmons Family: Picture Perfect!
The picture I use for my podcast cover was taken by Mr. Carlton Simmons. He chronicled Cherry Hill families with his black and white photography. If it was a family event, he captured it with his camera. He took all the school class photos unti...
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Season 2
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Episode 20
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46:33
Carl David's Internet Radio Journey: JAZZRADIOdc.com
Sometimes you have to take a long road to find your dream. For Carl David, that road started in Chicago, went to Los Angeles, came back to Harvey, IL, and then here to the DMV. Hear this Boomer talk about how he has pursued his love for jazz wh...
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Episode 19
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59:25
Tales from the Edmondson High School Class of 1965's 60th Reunion
The year was 1965, and we were all ready to get out into the world. What a world it was! Baltimore City was booming with industry, and jobs were plentiful. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 opened up opportunities for us that our parents didn't have...
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Episode 18
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1:21:32
Dr. Shamara Collins, Defender of the Planet!
When Shamara Collins was a little girl growing up in Columbia, Maryland, she appreciated nature and the green spaces designed throughout the planned community. So much so that when she grew up, she became what I call a professional steward of p...
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Episode 17
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39:07
Matthew Anderson Kinnard, Ph.D., Retired Director of the NIH Extramural Associates Program
The National Institutes of Health is not a typical Federal work environment. It is located on a 300+ acre campus in Bethesda, MD. There are over 30 buildings on the grounds, and it has its own power plant, police department, and fire department...
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Episode 16
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1:00:24
Friendship: Our Broken Circle/Carol Matthews, Sandra Green Johnson, and Me in Honor of Sidney Rauls Ellis
Friendship is golden. Particularly when it is lifelong. My closest friends are the ones I met in school. Today, two of my best friends and I discuss growing up in Baltimore and our friendship with the late Sidney Rauls Ellis. We are pictured ab...
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Episode 15
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37:49
From Childhood in Tulsa, OK to Mayor of Hanover, PA and Infinity!: Myneca Offord Ojo
When little Myneca Offord was catching a ride to her babysitting certification class in downtown Tulsa at the age of 10, little did she know she would one day be the Mayor of Hanover, PA. If you listen to Myneca's episode, you will understand h...
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Episode 13
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46:35
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 NI...
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Episode 12
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1:01:18
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...
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Episode 11
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47:57
Geraldine Wilford Wiggins: Moving on Up--from Miami to Baltimore!
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 ...
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Episode 10
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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...
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Episode 9
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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...
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Episode 8
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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...
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Episode 7
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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...
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Episode 6
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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 ...
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Episode 5
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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...
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Episode 4
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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 ...
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Episode 3
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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...
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Episode 2
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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,...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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49:41