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This is part four of a four-part series. To learn more about Mayor Prince, check out the other three videos on the our website and follow Prince's administration at @ReimagineGary.

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How do we impact change? This enduring question has resurfaced with urgency in America. Today, we present one storyteller's attempt to live out an answer to that question as the Mayor of Gary, Indiana.

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""You know, I’m not saying they’re not nice, but I don’t know how it will turn out. And basically, my feelings are, it’s people that have money versus somebody that doesn’t have money.""

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As so many communities fight for #affordablehousing, we offer a story from ours.

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"I have a good friend, and... I said, “You have to vote!” And she said, “Well, I’ll think about it.” I said, “There’s no thinking about it. You have to vote. If you vote against me, okay. But vote!” I said, “If you don’t vote, don’t criticize.”"

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Props to all the candidates out there! #ElectionDay2019

A charge for you on this #ElectionDay from one of our oldest and wisest storytellers: “If you’re not voting, that’s as if you don’t want any voice in your own government.”

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"We used to demonstrate the voting machine. The county used to let us bring the big, the big, old-fashioned voting machine to 5th and Broadway at the bank."

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Welcome Project undergrad researcher Joy Holland presents her findings on St John's Lutheran Church at @ValpoU FiRES exhibition.

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After #OHA2019 #OHA19, we are appreciating anew the important work of oral historians and the role of public history.

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My new post for the National Council on Public History @ncph History@Work blog on "Documenting the Undocumented: Archiving and recording the refugee experience." https://t.co/D1BXdC8j38 #PublicHistory #Archives ...

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Meet your mentor at #OHA2019!

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Congrats to all those whose proposals were accepted for @ncph 2020 in Atlanta. Public history has never been more crucial. https://t.co/pX3Ck9NZ88

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Who and how we remember matters! #NationalArchivesMonth Get funded...

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#NEH celebrates American #Archives Month! Plan a project with a Humanities #Collections & Reference Resources grant. Up to $350K to make cultural heritage materials widely accessible via digitization, cataloging, etc., and/or to create reference resources. https://t.co/6gZAFUVpjy

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"...the person that’s inflicting that pain needs to step up and say, ‘Yes, I understand. I did this. There’s things I could’ve done better.’ ...it doesn’t wipe the wound away, but it’s addressing, you know, it’s the salve you need to be able to move on and still excel at life."

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Join Google in honoring Dr. Herbert Kleber, drug addiction researcher, and give a listen to "Hard, Cold Realizations," part 2 in a 3-part story from the #InvisibleProject. Our storyteller talks specifically about her own addiction and its ramifications. https://t.co/58XfIiRbQK

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"And I’ve still been in their lives, and they still got to call me ‘Mom,’ but it was rocky with one of them, because they was really angry."