Voices of Rondo book & DVD Oral Histories of Saint Paul's Historic Black Community with companion DVD By Kate Cavett ISBN 0-9767054-2-7 Syren Book Company · September 2005 6 x 9 · Paperback · 362 pp · Our price     $ 31.95         Quantity   Voices of Rondo Companion DVD brings to life through video the stories of fifteen of the thirty-three individual storytellers from the book Voices of Rondo. This companion DVD begins with a forward in which seven storytellers bring light to the experiences of the dynamic, diverse Rondo community. We then have the opportunity to share a variety of the aspects of Black American culture in fifteen six-to-twelve minute video chapters. The short video chapters are an introduction to full chapters in the book, and are in no way meant to replace reading the book. These video stories celebrate the community and the culture of those who lived and worked in this vibrant north urban Black community during the first half of the twentieth century. We are invited to glimpse the challenges of racism and poverty, and share the victories of a community that educated its chlidren to become the next generation of leaders in Saint Paul. The book Voices of Rondo: Oral Histories of Saint Paul’s Historic Black Community includes thirty-three individual short stories that share the varied aspects of the Black culture in this dynamic, diverse community. Voices of Rondo encapsulates the experience of Blacks living in northern cities throughout the United States. These stories celebrate the community and the culture of those that lived and worked in the vibrant Rondo neighborhood. The book is available without the DVD here. Kate Cavett has collected oral histories from over 150 people of different backgrounds, ages, races and professions, from police officers to gang members. She has had the opportunity to spend hundreds of hours reflecting on parenting, caeers, neighborhoods, racism, and their sorrows, passions, fears, and joys. Ms. Cavett is the award-winning consulting producer of Oh Freedom Over Me, a radio documentary that considers the history of Mississippi Freedom Summer 1964 as a challenge to address racism today. She lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, six blocks from the Rondo neighborhood.

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