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- Title
- Penny Bailer talks about her relationship with Detroit
- Creator
- Bailer, Penny
- Date
- 2018-09/2019-04
- Collection
- i.Detroit
- Description
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Penny Bailer speaks about her relationship with Detroit for Marcus Lyon's i.Detroit project. Bailer discusses working with the Girl Scouts, Rotary club, and City Year, where she fell in love with the city trying to make a difference.
- Title
- Interview of community organizer, teacher, and author Maurice Broaddus
- Creator
- Broaddus, Maurice
- Date
- 2020-01-31
- Collection
- Voices of the Black Imaginary
- Description
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Community organizer, teacher, and author Maurice Broaddus is interviewed by University of Florida doctoral student Kimberly Williams following the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida. He talks about how faith and hope informs his writing and activism work, and shares how as a student, he originally majored in biology but later transitioned into creative writing. Broaddus speaks of his start in the horror genre and how that was his genesis to work through rage and pain. He...
Show moreCommunity organizer, teacher, and author Maurice Broaddus is interviewed by University of Florida doctoral student Kimberly Williams following the Zora Neale Hurston Festival in Eatonville, Florida. He talks about how faith and hope informs his writing and activism work, and shares how as a student, he originally majored in biology but later transitioned into creative writing. Broaddus speaks of his start in the horror genre and how that was his genesis to work through rage and pain. He explains what Afrofuturism means to him and how it parallels his activism regarding oral history, community engagement, and teaching. Maurice states "Afrofuturism offers us a chance to see ourselves" and that the Zora Neale Hurston's scholarship and Afrofuturism tenets both promote living and creating an authentic self.
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- Title
- Communists and community : unionism and the rise and fall of community activism in Detroit, 1932-1968
- Creator
- Pettengill, Ryan S.
- Date
- 2009
- Collection
- Electronic Theses & Dissertations
- Title
- Interview of Andres G. Guerrero
- Creator
- Guerrero, Andrés Gonzales
- Date
- 2013-11-08
- Collection
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description
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Andres G. Guerrero, author of "A Chicano Theology," reminisces about his childhood in east Texas, his family and his education, and describes his personal evolution and awakening as a community organizer and teacher working with the poor in the Saginaw, MI Diocese. Guerrero, who holds a doctorate in theology, says that most religions are Euro-centric and do not account for a "native way" of thinking and he challenges all religious institutions to simply "teach love". Guerrero also discusses...
Show moreAndres G. Guerrero, author of "A Chicano Theology," reminisces about his childhood in east Texas, his family and his education, and describes his personal evolution and awakening as a community organizer and teacher working with the poor in the Saginaw, MI Diocese. Guerrero, who holds a doctorate in theology, says that most religions are Euro-centric and do not account for a "native way" of thinking and he challenges all religious institutions to simply "teach love". Guerrero also discusses his book and suggests areas for further study in leadership, organizing, and managing power for the benefit of the entire Chicano Latino community and not just the few. Guerrero is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Diana Rivera for the "Mexican Voices - Michigan Lives" oral history series.
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