
No matter how skilled a person is at a task, when you get some help, it makes the job easier and you can get more accomplished. The congress passed the civil rights legislation in 1964 but it needed a companion that would allow its purpose and prospects to extend to greater prospects of actualization. Thus, the introduction of DEI. But some became envious of what was accomplished by the relationship of civil rights and impact of DEI. Understanding what DEI is and its role to helping a myriad of people could help people do something similar but different. Crystal Darnell is the authority that we have turned to. It is said that if we forget history we are destined to repeat it! Her grasp of history and DEI just may help many to help themselves and keep others from the failings of the past. In this podcast Crystal will do what many a preacher does on Sunday morning...she isn't a preacher nor is she preaching but she is gifted in telling the story!
Jerome Graham grew up in Toledo and fondly remembers spending his summers in Woodville, Ohio. In 1977, Graham graduated from Penta County Vocational School with a degree in business. He then enrolled in Owens Community College and graduated with an Associate’s of Applied Business, majoring in Marketing and Sales.
Graham worked for many other stations in Toledo and Detroit and is now a Marketing Consultant for Glass City Radio Broadcasting in Toledo and host of the community affairs program Urban Beat. He is associate minister at Indiana Avenue Missionary Baptist church and former Pastor of True Vine MBC. He is an active member of both the Toledo Interdenominational Alliance, and The Baptist Ministers Foresight.
Paying the blessing forward by helping persons in need has been the guiding principle in Graham’s professional and personal life.
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