Holding Dignity: Family, Memory and a Mother's Defiance

About this episode

Germaine Ingram discusses the intersections of family history, memory, and dignity, reflecting on her upbringing and experiences with racial terror.

In this episode of In the Telling (Season 5, Episode 40), Miranda Mims and Steven G. Fullwood sit down with multidisciplinary artist, oral historian, and archivist Germaine Ingram to explore the intersections of family history, memory, and dignity. Grounded in her upbringing in Philadelphia and her parents’ migration from Georgia, Ingram reflects on a formative childhood experience during a road trip to the segregated South, where her mother’s quiet but resolute defiance in the face of racial terror left a lasting impression. Through this powerful story, Ingram examines how dignity is asserted in constrained and dangerous circumstances, connecting personal memory to broader histories of anti-Black violence and resilience. The conversation weaves together themes of improvisation, cultural preservation, and the ongoing struggle to protect and honor Black histories, underscoring the urgency of storytelling as both an act of resistance and care. 📺 Watch the Full Conversation on YouTube! We’ve launched our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Nomadic Archivists Project YouTube channel⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ —watch this episode in living color! For more podcasts, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Nomadic Archivists Project⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠…

People in this episode

Hosts: Miranda Mims, Steven G. Fullwood

Guest: Germaine Ingram

Topics covered

• family history
• memory
• dignity
• anti-Black violence
• cultural preservation
• storytelling

Keywords

• family
• memory
• dignity
• Black history
• storytelling
• resilience
• racial terror

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nomadic Archivists Project

Places: Philadelphia, Georgia, South

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