Dec 23, 2020 I used some of the money I made this year to buy bikes for kids for Christmas “I like making my own money. I used some of the money I made this year to buy bikes for ...
Dec 22, 2020 I had a vision to bring pralines to Mobile “I started cooking with my grandmother. When I was six, I was on a show called ...
Dec 20, 2020 Sometimes you find your way forward by looking back “I grew up poor, one of seven children, in a family of farmers and fishers in rural ...
Dec 19, 2020 Davis Avenue needed goods and services and immigrants opened businesses there “My parents were first generation children of immigrants from Europe. Their parents came ...
Dec 18, 2020 You always come back home “I grew up by the bridge. My dad worked for the railroad. They took the wheels off cabooses, ...
Dec 15, 2020 I sang at most of the clubs on The Avenue “I grew up in the Bottom when Davis Avenue was flourishing with shops. Ella’s ...
Dec 13, 2020 My mother taught me to keep my head up “I grew up in Orange Grove, one of the first housing projects in the country. Teachers, ...
Dec 10, 2020 Five years of Our Southern Souls Our Southern Souls started five years ago. The 1,645 interviews have broken down my walls and ...
Dec 8, 2020 On Davis Avenue we could be ourselves “Things were booming on Davis Avenue. Clothing stores, blue singers, and three movie ...
Dec 6, 2020 I never dreamed that when I rolled him into ER that would be my last time to see him. He didn’t come back to me. “Onesimus and I rode the same bus and smiled at each other in high school. He played ...