Block 21 of James Spaulding Weeksville Oral History (Q24806)

James Spaulding: It was beautiful; they had soul cooking — health food, vegetarian food; they had paintings by black artists on the walls… it was just a cultural set there for people of African ancestry that really lifted my spirits up, definitely in terms of finding out who I was, who I be [laughs]. It gave me an awareness of myself, my origins, my parents, going on back to slavery. The East...