Themes:
Health
Local Businesses
Community Events & Celebrations - Juneteenth
Non-Profits
People of EPA
Crime - Drugs
Religious Organizations
Subjects:
Meda Okelo, Anita Black-Cowen, BACHC, Olicia Black, YMCA, Larry Moody, Faith Missionary Baptist Church, Whiskey Gulch, Mt. Olive Missionary Church, Kavanaugh School, Henry Cole, George Ward, Nairobi Shopping Center
Date of Creation or Publication:
6/23/2025
Creator
Meda Okelo
Donor
Anita Black-Cowen
Language
English
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Interview of Anita Black-Cowan by Meda Okelo. Topics include: coming to EPA when she was young; experiences at Kavanaugh School; leaving for four years, returning around 1970 to Bradley Avenue; lifestyle in the neighborhood in the 1970s; attending Mt. Olive Missionary Church; Juneteenth Festivals; notable teachers; being raised by a single mother with four siblings; experience at Woodside High; other churches in EPA and businesses in Whiskey Gulch and Nairobi Shopping Center; changing demographics and tensions between the different cultures and the police; notable people involved in incorporation and other city activities; working with people with health disparities at BACHC; joining the YMCA Board and working to bring a YMCA to EPA; teaching dance and fitness classes; what she doesn’t like about the changes in EPA; experiences during the high crime period of the early 1990s; why some of her friends moved and why she didn’t; why she left Mt. Olive for Faith Missionary after 36 years; how she met Meda Okelo; and other topics.