Linda Grace Morris: Baltimore Boomer Tales from the Hood

Send us Fan MailBrenda is 80 years old and planning the next chapter of her life. She is a breast cancer survivor who fought through a major bout with depression when she was subsequently confined to a wheelchair due to degenerative arthritis. She uprooted herself from Baltimore and moved to Charlotte, NC, in the midst of her trials and tribulations. Then, when she got there, she became an entrepreneur at the age of 72 with her business, BB's Homemade Krab Kakes--the Ks being for her two grandsons. Now she is planning her next chapter, and she is adamant that it's not too late for me or you!Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.

Send us Fan MailI first met Reverend Chester Morris, his lovely wife, Deborah, and his young daughter, Theresa, in about 1977 when I drove my Mother back home to the Eastern Shore of Virginia for the first time after she left as a child in 1931 as part of the Great Migration. Up until then, I had heard my Mom, and her eight siblings talk about their happy lives growing up in Nassawadox, Virginia. As I got older and learned more about segregation--I had lived under it until I was 16 years old when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed allegedly ending Jim Crow--I could not comprehend how the life that they found so much joy in recalling could possibly have been happy. However, after talking with Reverend Morris today, I am reminded that joy is given to us by God and cultivated through our relationship with Him. If you need some joy today, listen to this episode.Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.

Send us Fan MailMrs. Lelia Elaine Moody Harrison lives in Cherry Hill and has lived in the same house, the house her father purchased back in 1948, while living there. She has seen a lot in her 99 years and shares with us what she has done over time. Miss Lelia, as I call her, is such a delight. Listen as she shares her story.Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.

Send us Fan MailI first heard of Warren Howze when he was the Big Man on Campus at Morgan State College in the mid-1960s. Although I did not attend Morgan, I heard my girlfriends talking about him being President of the Student Government Association. I recently met him and was interested in where life had taken him. I was captivated by his story because it shows the difference a life dedicated to public service can make. His story reminds us of how far we have come, but how far we still have to go.Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.

Send us Fan MailIt was my honor and pleasure to interview my high school classmate and friend, Dobie Gillis. I did not know him in high school, but I am glad to have gotten to know him now. His story is the story of so many young men in the Boomer generation--particularly his service in Vietnam. I hope you will listen and learn.Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.

Send us Fan MailDr. William Wade, the subject of Season 2, Episode 2, invited me to attend the Luck Family Reunion that was held in Baltimore this year. Of course, being the #1 fan of Cherry Hill's Dr. Jerry Luck, I jumped at the opportunity. That is where I met Ted and Alyce Luck, both retired educators--but not really. If you listen to this episode, you will learn a lot. This family intrigues me because they are descended from enslaved persons Jerry and Luvenia Luck. Jerry was determined that all of his children would be educated and become doctors and lawyers. The family settled in Danville, VA. Many of them came to Washington, DC, to live with a relative who opened her home so they could attend Dunbar High School because African Americans in Danville could not go beyond the 8th grade. From Dunbar, they went to Howard University. This family had a process for moving on up.Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.

Send us Fan MailI was introduced to the Montford Point Marines three years ago around Veteran's Day when I attended one of their awards ceremonies at the War Memorial in Baltimore. I didn't know their story before going. Fast forward to February of this year when one of my high school classmates, Eugene (Dobie) Gillis, a retired Marine who lives in California, forwarded me an email in February about the Montford Point Marines Association's 61st Annual Conference being held in  Baltimore July 8 -12. I believe in signs, so I said I would go and try to meet an original Montford Point Marine to interview for my podcast. Don't you know that I did just that. Today, July 9, the first day of the conference I met Ambassador Britton, and he agreed to share his remarkable story of how a little boy from the tiny town of Blue Heaven, South Carolina, grew up to become a scholar and a gentleman.Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.

Send us Fan MailReverend Hunter's calling is to saving souls. His life of activism reminds us that we are our brother's keeper. Even in retirement from his Presiding Elder capacity, he continues to work to bring the next generation to God and to remind them of their anointing. Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected] and tell me in 25 words or less why I should interview you.