File:Millie Taylor & Raymond Wazeeradin 06302023.mp3

Summary

This is porch conversation that is densely packed with historical information, anecdotes and conjectures. Miss Millie and her cousin Raymond are both lifelong residents of East End, and both students of local history. Topics range from coal dust to the project of re-naming public places after local Black historical figures, to Miss Millie’s personal observations and experiences of gentrification that has developed alongside the Choice Neighborhood Initiative. Interviewer Adrian Wood also shares about the history of CSX as well as ongoing projects to work toward solutions to the coal dust.