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Since the dawn of the internet and instant global communication, slow news days have become a thing of the past. There is new news all the time. Welcome to Rational Radio, home to rational discussions about current events and politics in the world we live in. LISTEN TO RATIONAL RADIO LIVE AT WHIP ON IHEARTRADIO, TUNEIN, OR RADIOFX | M/W/F 4-5PM
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Baltimore was the place to be in the 1950s and 1960s, bustling with all the industry and social change about to come. For African Americans, it was a jobs magnet with all the major manufacturers. Those living in Turner Station and Sparrows Point, the company town built to host the Bethlehem Steel Company, had the highest per capita income for African Americans in the nation. Cherry Hill, the only planned community built for African Americans by the Federal Government, lifted many Baltimore B ...
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Send us a text Sometimes you have to take a long road to find your dream. For Carl David, that road started in Chicago, went to Los Angeles, came back to Harvey, IL, and then here to the DMV. Hear this Boomer talk about how he has pursued his love for jazz while working full-time jobs. Make every moment count! E-mail me at [email protected]
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Send us a text The year was 1965, and we were all ready to get out into the world. What a world it was! Baltimore City was booming with industry, and jobs were plentiful. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 opened up opportunities for us that our parents didn't have. The Vietnam War was calling up our generation to serve as soon as we graduated and consum…
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Send us a text When Shamara Collins was a little girl growing up in Columbia, Maryland, she appreciated nature and the green spaces designed throughout the planned community. So much so that when she grew up, she became what I call a professional steward of planet Earth and the galaxy. As you listen to her speak, you can't help but hear the passion…
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Send us a text The National Institutes of Health is not a typical Federal work environment. It is located on a 300+ acre campus in Bethesda, MD. There are over 30 buildings on the grounds, and it has its own power plant, police department, and fire department. Every single employee has a hand in the great research that comes out of this premier bio…
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Send us a text Friendship is golden. Particularly when it is lifelong. My closest friends are the ones I met in school. Today, two of my best friends and I discuss growing up in Baltimore and our friendship with the late Sidney Rauls Ellis. We are pictured above in Atlantic City for what used to be our annual girls' trip. From left to right, me, Sa…
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Send us a text When little Myneca Offord was catching a ride to her babysitting certification class in downtown Tulsa at the age of 10, little did she know she would one day be the Mayor of Hanover, PA. If you listen to Myneca's episode, you will understand how the drive and determination to get what she needed was instilled in her at an early age.…
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Send us a text If you know of any African American research scientists/medical doctors 50 and under, chances are they came through some training experience funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). If they did, they were probably introduced to the NIH by Joe Ager. I had a front row seat at the NIH to watch how Joe and several other colleag…
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Send us a text Minnie Conyers Carter has made her mark on many aspects of life in Baltimore. As with many in this generation, she is part of the Great Migration of African Americans from the south to seek better lives up north. She and her mother, Mrs. Ida Mae Conyers Dates, came up on the train and first settled with Minnie's aunt, Mrs. Mattie Stu…
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Send us a text When 8-year-old Geraldine Wilford first saw New York City, she could not believe her eyes. She learned that there was a world very different from the one she was born into in Miami, Florida, and she was determined to get a piece of it. She was the only child of Jesse James Wilford and his wife Marie Sanders Wilford. After her mom and…
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Send us a text Sandra Aldridge was one of the first people I noticed when I came to Payne Memorial A.M.E. Sunday School at 6 or 7 years old. She was a preteen who was beautiful and impeccably dressed. She was probably the most popular girl in Sunday School because everybody liked her. I never traveled in her circle because I was too young. But I wa…
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Send us a text If you are from Baltimore City, chances are your education has been touched by something that Dr. Hayman influenced, proposed, sponsored, or initiated. Having over 60 years of international experience, he has devoted his life to inspiring young people and adults to learn. Listen as he shares his memories of growing up and how basketb…
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Send us a text Joseph Yvette is a multitalented artist who has pursued each and every one of those talents in the service of others. Born and raised in Washington, DC, she shares with me memories of growing up in Jim Crow DC and later moving out into the world on her very special journey. Make every moment count! E-mail me at Lindagracemorris@gmail…
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Send us a text I have my good friend, the late Maxine Richardson, to thank for my career at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Maxine was the Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Officer at the National Cancer Institute when she hired me in 1980 as an EEO Specialist. I was working for the Baltimore Field Office of the Equal Employment Opportuni…
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Send us a text If you were just meeting Dr. Vivian Pinn today, you might think that she was someone of Hollywood fame. She says that at one point in her very young life, she wanted to be a singer or dancer--except for the fact that she could neither sing nor dance. Fortunately for us, she found her calling in the world of medicine. Listen to how th…
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Send us a text Linda Wade and her brother, William, were fortunate enough to grow up in Turner Station, a community in the shadow of the Bethlehem Steel plant in Sparrows Point, Baltimore County. I say fortunate because residents of Sparrows Point and Turner Station had the highest per capita income in the country during the war years into the 1970…
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Send us a text In this episode, you will hear from another member of the iconic Luck family. Season 1, episodes 10 and 25 featured descendants of a slave in Danville, VA, freed at the end of the Civil War, Jerry Luck. Jerry valued education because the law forbade him from obtaining it. He was determined that all of his children would have a good e…
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Send us a text Serina is the first guest I have interviewed remotely by cell phone. It took a few minutes to get everything working together, but the wait was worth it. Someone referred her to me as having an interesting story, and she certainly does. I'm not just saying that because there are a lot of similarities with our stories. Listen as Serin…
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Send us a text Kai Jackson is the most down-to-earth television personality that you ever will meet. I should have known this because we have been chatting over the past few years about me helping him with a project on Cherry Hill. A native of Washington, DC, he grew up in the Glen Arden section of Prince George's County. Kai was born in 1964, so h…
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a new track from the upcoming Lorna Shore albumand tracks from the following bands Black Water Rising Jokers Revenge #lotan Mad Wet Sea MARTYR #mothis Order of the DeadShackled To The Throne Valley of Despair Famous Strangers Bandalong with some veteran bands Obituary GOATWHORE Cannibal Corpse Venom Inc Cancer Bats Iron Maiden Slayer…
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Send us a text Betty Baze lives and breathes Cherry Hill. She was born in Cherry Hill, and with the exception of three years when she was traveling with her husband in the military, she has lived in Cherry Hill her entire life. She credits her mother as being her role model for advocacy because her mother was always active in the community. As you …
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Send us a text Sarah is 90 years old, but she remembers details like it was yesterday. She was a hard-working little girl because she was the oldest of four sisters. She helped with diapers and bottles as soon as her sister Mable was born 2 years after her. She was cooking by the time sisters Helen and Gracie came along when she was 5 years old. Sh…
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Send us a text Helen Harmon Rowley is a loyal daughter of Virginia's Eastern Shore. Born in Nassawadox of Northampton County in 1939, she has always wanted to live there. She had a very colorful journey to becoming a successful career educator despite deficiencies that could have made that impossible. In her early adult years, she desired a governm…
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Send us a text Deborah Butler Johnson is another Cherry Hill success story because of the "village" that affirmed, supported, and loved on us. When Deborah was six-years-old, she was as tall as her Mother. At about that age, she was becoming aware that her Mother was a little person, at the time called a dwarf. Throughout her life, Deborah has lear…
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Send us a text From the moment you hear Patricia introduce herself, you can tell she is a take charge person. Her childhood and adolescence in Cherry Hill prepared her to make her way in the world. And no wonder. As it turns out, she has no-nonsense ancestors who have left documentation of their contributions to American history. Listen as Patricia…
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Send us a text Rita Toy-Carr is a 2nd cousin gifted to me by Ancestry.com shortly before COVID hit. The reason I can remember is that I am so grateful that she got to speak with the Speaks family historian, in the oral tradition. Leon was the family's greatest storyteller, possibly because he was the oldest cousin and had seen more relatives than t…
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Send us a text Donald Jones did not set out to be a minister. He took a very circuitous route. However, he got there, he's there. His family migrated to Baltimore in the early 1940s like so many black families searching for better lives. They moved to Baltimore before he was born which makes him the only member of his family born in Turner Station.…
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Send us a text When Leon Bailey won first place for his wrestling division weighing 136 ½ pounds at the Quonset Point Navy Base in Rhode Island in 1964, he became the first African American to win a Navy wrestling championship in New England. Leon had been preparing to box and wrestle all his life in the recreation centers and gyms of East Baltimor…
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Send us a text Alvin Lee shares with us his family's journey from Nova Scotia to Washington, DC, to Cherry Hill. The son of a schoolteacher and ship's waiter, this young man was destined to chart an out-of-the-ordinary course for himself, and that he did. He tells us how he navigated the waters of segregation coming of age in the 1960s to accomplis…
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Send us a text After ending Michael's first episode because of time constraints, I felt uneasy because there was more that needed to be said to give you the full view of Michael's journey. I had planned to publish this the following week. However, I think it better serves you, the listener, to have it immediately. Make every moment count! E-mail me…
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Send us a text This is a story of so many twists and turns that I had to do it in two episodes because every detail was essential. Cherry Hill is the launching point for the life that Michael has navigated so well with his faith at the core of his being. As we are told in James 2:26, "For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without wor…
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Send us a text Salima "Dolly" Siler Marriott describes herself as a feminist activist. That seed was planted by her maternal great-grandmother, Eliza Finney Fosque, who was born in 1874 in Exmore, a small town in Accomack County on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. She was a midwife in the town until 1940. Salima's activism has changed the landscape o…
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