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- Abhayam Kaln Interview, September 22, 2019
- Date
- September 22, 2019
- Creator
- Sierra Solomon; Person responsible unknown
- Subject
- Washington, DC; Meridian Hill Park; Malcolm X Park; drum circle; music; gentrification; spirituality
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- September 22, 2019
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1702
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- Anne Bouie Interview, October 20, 2020
- Date
- October 20, 2020
- Creator
- Dr. Anne Bouie; Joy Pierce
- Description
- Dr. Bouie is a Black artist currently living in Washington, D.C. She previously worked as a teacher and spent several years creating educational programing for inner city schools. She discusses her life from childhood, early education, later experiences in college and graduate school. Then, she talks about her experiences as a Black educator serving inner city students and her transition into being an artist. Finally, she shares her thoughts on the Black Lives Matter movement and the role of art and spirituality in sustaining social movements. The interview was conducted remotely through the podcasting program Zencastr and we experienced some technical difficulties.
- Subject
- Washington, DC; Black Lives Matter; Art; Education; Artist; Columbia Heights, DC; Spirituality; University of California Riverside
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- Black Artists in Washington, DC and the Black Lives Matter Movement Oral History Project; info:fedora/dcplislandora:307079
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2616
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- Carey Gauzens Interview, September 11, 2021
- Date
- [date of publication not identified]
- Creator
- Gauzens, Carey; Whitehurst, Angie; Gauzens, Carey; Whitehurst, Angie
- Subject
- working in dc; AFL-CIO; labor; labor day; musical; social work; counseling; spirituality
- Country
- United States; United States
- Collection
- Working in D.C.
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3101
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- Title
- Curtis Harrison Interview, November 11, 2019
- Date
- November 11, 2019
- Creator
- Curtis Harrison; Sarah Canfield
- Description
- Curtis Harrison recalls finding out he had HIV while incarcerated for a 20 year sentence. He talks of his time living in homeless shelters in D.C., in Joseph’s House, and temporary housing.
- Subject
- Washington, DC; HIV/AIDS; Joseph’s House; Cornerstones Affordable Housing; homeless shelter; spirituality; dialysis; prostate cancer; D.C. Medicaid; incarceration; grill cook
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- Joseph's House Oral History Project
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2194
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- Title
- Day Of The Dead Celebrated In Haiti
- Date
- 1999-11-02
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- Haitians celebrate the Day of the Dead by making offerings at the municipal cemetery monument of Le Baron, supposedly the first male to be interred in the city's cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on November 2, 1999. Candles, bread and rum are the normal offerings.
- Subject
- Spiritual; Culture; Voodoo; Religion; Prayer; Haiti
- Country
- Haiti
- Local Identifier
- haiti_nc_0042_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
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- Title
- Joe Gaines Interview, October 17, 2020
- Date
- October 17, 2020
- Creator
- Joe Gaines; Kai Walther
- Description
- Joe Gaines, Choctaw from SE Oklahoma and member of Rebrand Washington Football and No Stadium, No Name Change, speaks with interviewer Kai Walther at Malcolm X Park for the Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration. He discusses learning about and challenging narratives from family and school about Christopher Columbus and the police. He calls for people to do something with this information once they learn about it, and how events such as Indigenous Peoples Day and more visibility and conversations around Native issues can help bring positive change.
- Subject
- Choctaw; Native American; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples Day; Columbus Day; Malcolm X Park; police; government; Christopher Columbus; Rebrand Washington Football; No Name Change, No Stadium; spirituality; Christianity; history; education
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- Indigenous Peoples' Day 2020
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2332
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- Title
- Mark Armstrong Interview, December 3, 2019
- Date
- December 3, 2019
- Creator
- Mark Armstrong; Sarah Canfield
- Description
- Mark Anthony Armstrong speaks about stigmas around HIV and Joseph’s House in D.C., as well as his homosexuality in his family. He also speaks about the effects of contracting HIV had on his past, current, and future relationships with romantic partners and friends. He speaks of working through such issues in weekly therapy sessions, and why he thinks his story is an important example of how people grow in unlikely circumstances.
- Subject
- Washington, DC; HIV/AIDS; World AIDS Day; community; Joseph’s House; dance; depression; spirituality; Shiva Entertainment; domestic abuse; homosexuality; therapy; relationships; friendships; disability
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- Joseph's House Oral History Project
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2199
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- Title
- Mark Armstrong Interview, October 19, 2019
- Date
- October 19, 2019
- Creator
- Mark Armstrong; Sarah Canfield
- Description
- Mark Anthony Armstrong recalls contracting HIV in the early 1990s, and the impact it has had on his life thereafter. Mark tells the story of his first partner and the traumas he experienced in the relationship. He also remembers growing up in D.C., traveling as a young man, working in a department store, working as a dancer, gymnast, and entertainer, and finding his place within various support groups in D.C.
- Subject
- Washington, DC; HIV/AIDS; Joseph’s House; Whitman Walker; Homes for Hope; Kaiser Health Center; dance; ballet; depression; spirituality; Job Corps; Shiva Entertainment; Soul Train; domestic abuse; abuse; homosexuality; activism
- Country
- United States
- Collection
- Joseph's House Oral History Project
- URI/handle
- http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2203
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- Title
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Date
- 1985-04-01
- Creator
- Nickelsberg, Robert
- Description
- A group of civilians hold a prayer service for President-elect Tancredo Neves (1910-1985) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 1985. Neves was elected President of Brazil but never took office after falling ill on the eve of his inauguration, March 14, 1985. He died 39 days afterwards. Neves would have been the first civilian elected president following Brazil's 20 years of military dictatorship.
- Subject
- Spiritual; Prayer; Brazil; Anniversary
- Country
- Brazil
- Local Identifier
- brazil_ct_0052_web.tif
- Collection
- The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
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