by Jerome Paige | Sep 22, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
LINDA WILLIAMS, Ph.D. Class of 1967 I’ve gained an expanding awareness of “life’s many realities” as a result of growing up in my neighborhood and times. I’ve left Washington, D.C., and returned several times. I’ve read widely. I’m always thinking. I appreciate how...
by Jerome Paige | Sep 16, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
SUBODH MATHUR Class of 1966 Looking back, life in India was entirely physically and socially different from my life in the United States. However, adapting to life in the US was not difficult. It has been a pleasant and rewarding journey for my family and me. However,...
by Jerome Paige | Sep 15, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
DAVID LANGClass of 1966Before I arrived on Howard University’s campus in fall 1966, “black” wasn’t part of my lexicon. I was “colored” or “Negro.” In my eyes, as well as the eyes of many, I was an “ultra-conservative white wannabe.” My freshman year changed all...
by Jerome Paige | Sep 9, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
OKELLA PAIGE TRICEClass of 1962Looking back, Germantown, the neighborhood and high school conjure up pleasant and unpleasant memories. Growing up in those places and spaces, I had to confront the tensions between race & identity and racism & fairness in myself...
by Jerome Paige | Sep 6, 2020 | Featured, Guest Contributor, The 1960s Project
GORDON BASICHISClass of 1965My life has been eventful. Eventful can reap its own rewards, but it can often inspire remarkable epiphanies as well as terrifying recognitions. Such is life, and life, in my view, should be lived so that one’s accounting should be based...
