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Title: 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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: 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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: 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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed materials

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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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