Interview of Ronald Keith Shelby by Meda Okelo. Topics include: migration of family to East Palo Alto in 1980; first impressions of EPA; living across from Bell Street Park; attending various RCSD schools; Juneteenth in the 1980s; youth programs at Bell Street Park; experience at Ravenswood Middle School and the change in demographics; importance of basketball; growing up in the Village; problems in high school; getting his G.E.D.; difficulty getting work as a new father; the drug business in the 1990s; how church involvement could have made a difference; EPA’s progress; thoughts on gentrification; advice he would give to a youth; vision for EPA in the future; the loss of the Recreation Center in Bell Street Park; and other topics.