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Title: Tracye Redd Interview, October 03, 2013
Date: October 03, 2013
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: In this interview, Claire Davis interviews 22 year-old Tracye Redd about his experience being a homeless youth in Washington, DC. Tracye talks of being a young person in the foster care system, what it is like to be an openly gay black person in a shelter for homeless youth, and how he helps other youth. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
Subject: Gay and Black
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1567
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Title: Valerie Williams Interview, November 08, 2012
Date: November 08, 2012
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: Valerie Williams’ interview traces her move to Washington, DC in 1973, her childhood experiences traveling with her family, her early years working in DC up to her current involvement with the CCNV (Community For Creative Non-Violence) and advocacy efforts in SHARC (Shelter, Housing and Real Change). Ms. Williams passionately communicates her views on the plight of the unhoused community regarding affordable housing, shelter conditions, including her is individual observations as an advocate for the growing population of unhoused individuals in the nation’s capital. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The interviews conducted as part of the DC Oral History and Social Justice Project record how unhoused residents of the greater DC area view the history of homelessness – how did homelessness become such an entrenched part of the city. The interviews will be used to create critical dialogue among people who are currently unhoused in Washington, DC, and then they may be used to assist future advocacy efforts.
Subject: CCNV (Community For Creative Non-Violence); SHARC (Shelter, Housing and Real Change); homelessness advocacy
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1568
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Title: Vance Levy (Head Roc) Interview (Part I), October 21, 2013
Date: October 21, 2013
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: This is an hour and half long interview with Washington, D.C. Hip Hop artist Head Roc also known as Vance Levy. Head Roc spends the interview speaking about his social and cultural remembrances of Washington DC in the 1970s, Prince Georges County in the 1980s, and Washington DC in the 1990s and 2000s. He offers his impression of how and why political developments shaped these phenomena. More particularly, he argues that the outside political control of the American Congress negatively affected opportunities for the political and social advancement of D.C. residents. He also argues that the challenging social and political environment in the city and immediate suburb prompted cultural creations in which he participated. He discussed his also traces his own artistic development and productions. His finally commentary was an analysis of social and demographic changes in the city which he attributed to intentional disenfranchisement of Black city residents.
Subject: They Reminisce: Hip Hop, Memory, and a City – an Oral History Project; homelessness; Head Roc; Hip Hop
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1569
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Title: Vance Levy (Head Roc) Interview (Part II), November 22, 2013
Date: November 22, 2013
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: This a half-hour follow-up interview with Washington, D.C. Hip Hop artist Head Roc also known as Vance Levy. This interview’s content returns to the idea of social and cultural changes in D.C. and its immediate suburbs with a focus on specific cultural landscapes and engagements of people in this time. In it Head Roc, details places in DC that nurtured his own cultural development. He offers a critique of portrayals of the city as dangerous or violent, viewing such notions as stereotypes of the city. He also offers a critique of the educational system that he experienced. The interview concludes with a discussion on gentrification in DC and it possible future effects on the city’s Black cultures.
Subject: They Reminisce: Hip Hop, Memory, and a City – an Oral History Project; homelessness; Head Roc; Hip Hop; gentrification
Country: United States
Collection: Homeless Voices Amplification Coop
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1570
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