by Jerome Paige | Nov 8, 2020 | WOJM-SM
Coincidence? For dinner last night I had prepared a vegan “Indian” meal – “vegetable korma,” “chickpea curry, Indian style,” and “cauliflower rice.” I had planned the meal a couple of days ago. It turned out to be a perfect meal to accompany the speeches of Vice...
by Jerome Paige | Nov 8, 2020 | WOJM-SM
I was in the Whole Foods parking lot in Downtown Silver Spring when off in the distance I heard horns honking. I knew then that the networks had declared Biden the winner. A smile formed on my face. I checked my phone and Cynthia had sent me a text letting me know....
by Jerome Paige | Oct 13, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
JUDITH WINSTON Class of 1961 While I was growing up, I had always dreamed of going to college, even though my father and mother had never attended. The 1950’s musicals of coeds singing and dancing, hardly ever in classrooms, was my vision of college life. Of course,...
by Jerome Paige | Oct 6, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
JAMES PAIGE Class of 1963 My siblings and I didn’t grow up wealthy, and I don’t remember wanting for anything. However, in retrospect, I became interested those who are “under-resourced.” These are terms I didn’t use in the 1960s. Then,...
by Jerome Paige | Sep 29, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
SHARON PUGHClass of 1969I found my identity amidst rapid demographic, social, and political changes. The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The rise of Washington DC as “Chocolate City.” Going away to college. The rising and waning of local black...
