‘Phillips Oral History’ Archives
Phillips Voices: Derrick Herod
from the series Phillips Oral History Project... Derrick Herod at Franklin Library. SOURCE: Phillips Oral History Project Partners The Phillips Community Oral History Project aims to document, amplify, and empower the multicultural and multi-generational voices of those in the Phillips Community to tell their own stories on their own terms. This month, the alley will begin featuring voices from the Project in our monthly papers. To start, we are sharing excerpts from an interview with community member Derrick Herod, who was interviewed at Franklin Library. Okay so could you just introduce yourself, your name, and your age if you want? Derrick: My name is Derrick. They call me black. I’m 45. Perfect. And what’s your relationship to this library or the area? The community? D: I was uh, I ain’t got no relationship with this building but I come here often to charge my phone up or just get out and get away from the riff-raff outside.Totally, totally. D: I’ve [...]
Monthly Update: Phillips Community Oral History Project
By PHILLIPS COMMUNITY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT PARTNERS Welcome back to the Phillips Community Oral History Project monthly updates. This column is an important part of the project’s outreach to the Phillips community. It is intended to share key progress milestones and to remain accountable to the people of Phillips. After several months of interviews (which are still ongoing), the Project has taken steps to transcribe many of them, bringing us closer to making these stories public and giving them a permanent home. The process begins with an automated transcription service, but Project staff and volunteers put considerable effort into matching the text with residents’ actual speech, and adding timestamps for future reference.Along with a more permanent digital home for these oral interviews, we plan to share even more of that content in these Alley updates. As we’ve gotten the interviews and transcription underway, the content we have shared from these interviews has been [...]
Monthly Update: Phillips Community Oral History Project
By PHILLIPS COMMUNITY ORAL HISTORY PROJECT PARTNERS Welcome back to the Phillips Community Oral History Project monthly update. The update is an important part of the Project’s outreach to the Phillips Community intended to share key progress milestones and to remain accountable to the people of Phillips. Project interviews continue, with over ten hours of video and audio recorded so far! According to Ella Kampelman of Phillips West, the initial list of interview subjects has been mostly completed, and the project is now expanding to “a slightly wider circle of interviewees.” This broader reach will be critical to a more complete story of Phillips. People who are interested in contributing to that story are encouraged to reach out to us at the email provided at the bottom of the update. J Randolph, executive director of Phillips West Neighborhood Organization, has been heartened by the community connections people have expressed in their interviews. Randolph said, “We [...]
