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 Arminta Foushee - On her grandfather's role as a trustee (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandfather's passing (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandfather's job as a chef (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandfather's faith (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandfather, Jacob Monroe James (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandfather working in Mexico (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her grandfather Jacob James and St. Paul AME Church

"He [Jacob James] was just very well respected here in Chapel Hill. I remember when he passed in Chapel Hill, I was living in Washington DC. It was probably one of the largest funeral servicec I’ve attended at St. Paul [AME Church]. They had to bring in chairs, they put chairs in the aisle and over…

 Arminta Foushee - On her first solo (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her family's college attendance (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): Did you go to college in DC, then? Arminta Foushee (AF): No, I actually went, I’m a proud Aggie, I’m a North Carolina A&T State University Aggie, the number one HBCU in the country. No, my husband actually did. He went to Howard University, and my former husband went to…

 Arminta Foushee - On her family history and grandparents (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On her earliest memories of the sanctuary (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On growing up near Franklin Street (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On doing church announcements (clip)

Arminta Foushee: But I also remember, I don't know how I got pegged with this job. So in most Black churches on Sunday mornings you have the announcements that are read and said, and so I did the announcements every Sunday from the time I was 12 years old until I went off to college. And I always…

 Arminta Foushee - On class leaders at AME churches (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On church organization notes (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On church memberships among families (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On Christmas Bags (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On choir anniversaries at St. Paul (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On children's meals during holidays (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On Chapel Hill's "liberal" character (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On changes at University Mall (clip)

Arminta Foushee (AF): They used to have nice flagship stores there. Kathryn Wall (KW): You know, when I first moved to Chapel Hill the Belk was still there. AF: Mm-hmm. Yeah. And Ivey’s… that was a really upscale store. But they ran out of business. I don't know if there are any Ivey’s left anymore.…

 Arminta Foushee - On Bynum and Susie Weaver's store (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On Black churches as a community (clip)

 Arminta Foushee - On Black Churches (clip)