An exceptional emergency physician/migrant worker our Living Legend gives the history of his internationally recognized family. Founder of PaceMD Global Health he is an international award winner as a Social Entrepreneur.
His mother is historian Gwendolyn Midlo Hall. His father is author and political activist Harry Haywood. His complicated family history mimics the complicated relationship between the US and African-Americans but provides encouragement for the future.
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Count Time Podcast Living Legend Haywood Hall
Selected quotes and notes from Count Time Podcast with LD Azobra Interview Dr. Haywood Hall – Black History Month
Haywood Hall and parents
“Although I was born in Brooklyn New York, I was raised in Mexico as a child until the age of 8. After a ” real world education” as a musician / piano tuner, a Con Ed meter reader and a NYC cab driver, I received my GED and I went back to college, dedicating my life to improving emergency care, and decreasing pain and suffering, especially among Spanish speaking and other marginalized populations. As an emergency physician, I have seen over 90,000 patients in emergency departments, worked in various private, public, and academic settings. I have won the highest international honors in my field. I have seen humanity at its very best and its very worst. An example of this was my service as a Medical Officer during the WTC 911 Disaster.
My grandparents were born slaves in 1860 and my father was born in 1898. True to my family’s values (my parents were both civil rights activists), and wanting to make a change in the world, I began to focus on what it would take to become my version of a change agent. I slowly made the transition to becoming a “Social Entrepreneur”. I realized that the roots of social change have to go beyond non -profit models and I started what ultimately became an impact enterprise in 2002. Although Social Business may not be able to solve all of the world’s problems, I am convinced we have to develop a new norm: enterprise with a social contract.”
Good evening. Good evening. Good evening it’s 4:00 PM. Stand up it’s count time, time for every man and woman to stand up and be counted. Welcome to another edition of Count Time podcast. I am brother LD Azobra. Thank you for joining us today.
We have something very, very special for you. We gonna jumpstart Black History month. We going to be doing something that’s a little different than what most of us are used to. We have here today Dr. Haywood Hall, the son of the great, the legendary, the one and only Gwendolyn Midlo Hall. Welcome to Count Time.
HH
Thank you. Thank you very much for having me.
Gwendolyn Midlo Hall (June 27, 1929 – August 29, 2022)[1] was an American historian who focused on the history of slavery in the Caribbean, Latin America, Louisiana (United States), Africa, and the African Diaspora in the Americas. Discovering extensive French and Spanish colonial documents related to the slave trade in Louisiana, she wrote Africans in Colonial Louisiana: The Development of Afro-Creole Culture in the Eighteenth Century (1992), studied the ethnic origins of enslaved Africans brought to Louisiana, as well as the process of creolization, which created new cultures. She changed the way in which several related disciplines are researched and taught, adding to scholarly understanding of the diverse origins of cultures throughout the Americas.
In addition, Hall created a database of records identifying and describing more than 100,000 enslaved Africans. It has become a primary resource for historical and genealogical research. She earned recognition in academia, and has been featured in The New York Times, People Magazine, ABC News, BBC, and other popular outlets for her contributions to scholarship, genealogy, and the critical reevaluation of the history of slavery. Hall was also Professor Emerita of Latin American and Caribbean History at Rutgers University in New Jersey, where she taught for 25 years.
Harry Haywood (February 4, 1898 – January 4, 1985) was an American political activist who was a leading figure in both the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). His goal was to connect the political philosophy of the Communist Party with the issues of race
Haywood died in January 1985, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. (Columbarium Court 1, Section LL, Column 7, 2nd Row from bottom. Interred under birth name “Haywood Hall.”) He had a service-related disability and spent the last few years of his life at a Veterans Administration medical facility. The Harry Haywood papers are housed at the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, and at the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York City. In Richard Wright’s autobiographical novel Black Boy (American Hunger), the character of Buddy Nealson is said to represent Haywood.
Haywood, Gwendolyn and Rebecca Hall
Rebecca Hall, JD, PhD, is a scholar, activist, and educator. She writes and publishes on the history of race, gender, law, and resistance as well as articles on climate justice and intersectional feminist theory.
A Spy Boy for 15 years for the Yellow Pocahontas Mardi Gras Indian Tribe. Our Living Legend discusses history, life, Big Chief Tootie Montana and the rise of the Mardi Gras Indians.
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Count Time Podcast Living Legend Fred Johnson
Fred Johnson, LD Azobra and Big Chief Darryl Montana
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It’s Mardi Gras Time! Everything you want to know about the Mardi Gras Indians
Black Mardi Gras and White Mardi Gras
Carnival and the start of Mardi Gras Indian Tribes
Transformation under Big Chief Tootie Montana
What is a Big Chief, the Spy Boy the roles of Mardi Gras Indian Tribes
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Music. That’s what it wass supposed to be about. And the storyline of how the Africans have impact the world of music and so many other things too. So I heard this guest here today, who is our brother, Fred Johnson. Welcome to Count Time Fred.
FJ Thanks for having me.
LD I know you are so full of insight, knowledge, well read. But first, just give us a little brief history of Fred Johnson.
FJ All right, brother, as you say. My name is Fred Johnson. I’m born and bred in New Orleans, Louisiana. I’m the oldest of six of my parents children.
Big Chief Tootie Montana sculpture. Click picture for EP69 with creator acclaimed artist Shellen Jones
LD Give us some history. What’s your mother and fathers name?
FJ My father, I’m a junior. Fred Joseph Johnson Jr. And my mom is Eva Johnson. They both deceased. But my dad was a fruit peddler in the days when they didn’t have good refrigeration.
LD Why do you say peddler? He was a businessman.
Click picture for EP26 with Dr. Joyce Jackson
FJ No, he was a fruit peddler. That’s what it was. He was a fruit peddler. But food peddler allowed him to be an independent worker. He worked for himself and he would go to the French market, which is far gone from what it was. It’s the flea market now. It was the French market back then. And he would take us to work with him and we’d go in the market early in the morning. And you had produce coming into the market from all over the world. I mean, California, Florida, Texas, Louisiana. So we would go in the market, load up the truck and then go in the route and sell the produce. Most of his clientele was either Russian or German or Italian. I would think more Italian than anything.
LD What kind of produce?
FJ You name it. Okra, squash, cauliflower, cucumbers, bananas, fruit and vegetable, watermelon, cantaloupe.
Will Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) implode college sports? Our Podcast Living Legend discusses NIL the problems facing student-athletes, their families, universities and alumni. LSU (and many public universities) window for competing for a conference championship could be less than three years. Download his article below.
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Count Time Podcast Living Legend Carlos Hornbrook
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Carlos J Hornbrook is Managing Partner at The Hornbrook Law Firm. Born in Ecuador, he has a BA in history from Louisiana State University, Juris Doctorate from the Southern University Law Center, and a Masters in Taxation from the University of Florida. He has had over twenty years of experience as a stockbroker and financial advisor. He is licensed to practice law in the State of Louisiana and is a member of the Louisiana State Bar Association.
Good evening. Good evening. Good evening it’s 4:00 PM. Stand up it’s count time, time for every man and woman to stand up and be counted. Welcome to another edition of Count Time podcast. I am brother LD Azobra. Thank you for joining us today.
Now, we gonna be rolling here today. We gonna be we gonna give some insight, some good information to help a lot of young brothers and sisters who not quite familiar with what’s going on and very few are familiar with what’s going on, but I have a dear friend here, colleague, a brother, confidant, everything you could imagine. I like to welcome him to Count Time, tax attorney Carlos Hornbrook.
CH I appreciate it, I’m glad to be here.
LD I got to give you a little background on Carlos. he’s a former player of LSU, graduate of LSU, and so, so much more. He still to this day, mean a lot to LSU because he’s a major, major supporter of LSU. He was a walk on and he was Hispanic. That was an unusual combination at Louisiana State University. They were just getting used to the black players coming up. Now the Spanish people show up.
CH But I tell you what, I was always treated nice with respect. Like I tell everyone the best thing I ever did was walk on at LSU, because most of my friends are guys on the team this day. I mean, 40 years later, you know, those guys that were teammates of mine are still my good friends. So to be able to get that kind of gift to me, I was fortunate, I got to tell everybody I was fortunate to be on that team.
Hornbrook, C. (2023, January 19). The Reasons that the Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) May Implode College Football.
The Current NIL Environment
Possible NIL Tax Ramifications for Athletes and Families
Possible Legal Ramifications of Nonpayment of NIL Taxes
Recommendations to NCAA Athletic Conferences regarding NIL
Before starting your new year’s resolution, listen to our extraordinary storyteller as she brings her health street ministry to Count Time Podcast. Our Living Legend gives her purpose and destiny and asks “What is yours?”
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Count Time Podcast Living Legend Joann Mayweather
Selected quotes and notes from Count Time Podcast with LD Azobra Interview with Joann Mayweather AKA the detox doctor
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Today, I want to let you know it’s going to be a special day for all of you. You are in for a treat. We don’t have an ordinary we got an extraordinary young lady here today who is going to share with you the importance of health and wellness. She going to take you on a journey to better health, a better life, a more prosperous new year by first taking care of yourself.
Now, I want to let you all know now you better get ready for her. She has a way of using the English language in a very what we call colorful manner, but a manner that is going to hit home. And I guess I can say she don’t use the king’s language. She speak the language of the people. Some might not be comfortable with it, but that’s all right. So you’ve got someone here today that going to share with you, to uplift you, but also shape you and just to doing the right thing. We like to welcome you today the one and only, the detox doctor herself here Ms. Joann Mayweather, welcome to Count Time.
JM Thank you. Thank you for having me to come here today.
LD Yes, she’s a wonderful people and I’m just glad to have you here because we know people right now thinking about, okay, I’ve over eaten, I’m stuffed, I’m puffed and I’m backed up.
We need to help them. The detox doctor need to help people when somebody gets backed up.
JM Cleanse is so important for us.
LD Now tell us a little bit about yourself because I found out that you’re from New Orleans.
JM Yes, I’m from New Orleans, Louisiana. And I’ve been here close to about 30 something years here in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. But my hometown is New Orleans, And it will always be. I like Baton Rouge, but I guess the creator wanted me to be here to start my journey.
Health is serious. You want to have fun in health as well. You want to take it as a journey. And a journey is going to be with you until you’re able to go home when I mean, by home, that means you’re resting place that you don’t have to do it no more.
Organizer, musician, militant our Living Legend gives a history of Baton Rouge and its music. Social change starts at home, creating the backdrop for the stark differences between the growth of cities like Atlanta, Austin and Baton Rouge. Oppression creates heartbreak and takes a tremendous toll that requires seeking a reason not to be angry about racism. Mr. Williams discusses these topics and so much more. Understand why he was a key figure in the 1972 Baton Rouge Black Muslim story.
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Count Time Podcast Living Legend Moses Williams
Selected quotes and notes from Count Time Podcast with LD Azobra Interview with Moses Williams
Good evening. Good evening. Good evening it’s 4:00 PM. Stand up it’s count time, time for every man and woman to stand up and be counted. Welcome to another edition of Count Time podcast. I am brother LD Azobra. Thank you for joining us today.
We always do it on Count Time. We always keep it fresh, keep things moving, and keep people informed and well educated about what’s going on here abroad and in your community. Today we bring it forward. This brother who really from the BR, the rouge, but at the present time living in the Atl, welcome, brother Moses Williams.
Welcome to Count Time.
MW Thank you very much.
LD I know you’re busy. We’re going to use this opportunity to have this dialogue and conversation about growing up in Baton Rouge. Now you’re in Atlanta. So what that was what was the Moses Williams like coming up?
MW Well, basically, I would say inquisitive I was just the average kids trying to find my way and trying to make my way and at the same time deal with racism and the effects of it. I had seven brothers and my mother had eight kids, one girl. And I was born in New Orleans, grew up in South Baton Rouge, and I would say we were surrounded with negative effects.
MW He was a local kid from Baton Rouge and from South Baton Rouge. He was on his way home doing nothing wrong. And during that time, you didn’t have to do anything wrong. If they said you did something wrong, you know, you got no recourse. So he took off running, and they shot him in the back. So we started demonstrating about that because we didn’t appreciate it.
We came up with means to try to detour it, because we had to do something other than just rioting. So we started boycoting and picketing. We boycotted the police department and city hall. Went to the we marched around city hall with protest signs, and during that time, they’d instructed us to stay in line as we were marching. Don’t get out of line.
But white people would pass by and intimidate you by saying, hey, n*****, hey, n****, or something to that effect. And one of the guys would get upset about it and jump out of the line.
So I wrote a song. The title of the song was Get Ready, N****. And I got everybody to walk that line singing that song. So that way, if a white person passed by and said, n****, it didn’t matter because you all sing the song. So nobody jumped out of the line anymore.
LD Do you remember how the song went?
MW Oh, yes.
You got to be ready, you got to be strong you got to stand up on your feet don’t let the honkey do you wrong I know he shot your black brother don’t you let him shoot another Get Ready n****
you want to talk about number one? The Honkey’s got a gun.
Want to talk about number two? You better find out what you got to do
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History, history and more history. Todays episode is a gift. Our Living Legend gives detailed accounts of life from 1940 to present, and the history of a great American family. LD and Mada (Activator, Innovator and Motivator) reminisce about projects they worked on together during 2022. Happy Holidays!
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Count Time Podcast Living Legend Mada McDonald
Selected quotes and notes from Count Time Podcast with LD Azobra Interview with Mada McDonald
Good evening. Good evening. Good evening it’s 4:00 PM. Stand up it’s count time, time for every man and woman to stand up and be counted. Welcome to another edition of Count Time podcast. I am brother LD Azobra. Thank you for joining us today.
Now today we have here my ride and die partner in crime my up and down, the girl who been rolling with me for quite some time, Ms. Mada Clark McDonald, or Ms. Mada McDonald Welcome to Count Time.
MYM Welcome, welcome, my brothers and my sisters.
LD I’ve been waiting for quite some time to get this interview. Now, she and I worked closely together, but it’s been hard to get an interview with her. She’s so big, so important. I can’t even get an interview, people out there. But guess what I got her here today. If you want to hear a lot of great information, lot of history, well, you’re going to hear from this young lady here. She got a long story and a great story to tell. So we’re going to get started with Ms. Mada MacDonald. I don’t even know where to start at, even though what to start at. High, low in the middle of the back. Where are we going to get started, Ms. Mada?
MYM Well, maybe what I should do is just say who I am and where I hail from what I do. My name is Mada McDonald. Mada Yvonne McDonald is my birth name. Y-V-O-N-N-E I have my first name from my paternal grandmother. Mada Porter Edwards. And my middle name, Yvonne comes from my godmother, Yvonne Jeffron. So my parents named my birth name Made Yvonne McDonald.
Now where the Clark comes in. In 75, I married Wayne Clark. So that’s how I have Clark on my name. However, when I do my public relations work and other writing endeavors and things like that, I go by Made McDonald. So I heil from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Born and raised right there at Baton Rouge General Hospital. December 1953 is my birthday. I just made my birthday.
LD Congratulations. You made 45?
MYM I made 22. You could add some years on if you want to, but yeah. Born and raised here in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Grew up for 13 years in Valley Park, which is out located off on Corporate Boulevard. Well Street. We lived there At that particular time, there was nothing. As you see that area, college Drive being there, there was no freeway. There was no Albertsons. College Drive It was a street, but it’s not a four lane street like it is now.
The 26th Amendment had just been ratified the year before giving 18 year olds the right to vote. 1972 was the year of student protests in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Two events in particular that year led to deaths with surrounding circumstances still disputed leading many to wonder if justice was done. Living Legends Moses Williams, Charlie Granger and Major Reggie Brown recount the events of January 10, 1972.
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Count Time Podcast Living Legends Moses Williams, Charlie Granger and Major Reginald Brown
Selected quotes and notes from Count Time Podcast with LD Azobra Aura of Mystery 1972 Black Muslims
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RB I was there from the time the first shot was fired, it was over. I helped pick up both of the dead deputies that were right in front of me on the ground. And blow by blow, I help pick them up, put them in ambulance.
LD We’re going to be going back, doing some reflection today, reminiscing and also giving you some historical information on something that happened in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in 1972. There’s a lot of different accounts of what happened, how it happened, but we do know there was a loss of life that day. But there were some men who showed up to make a difference, to make an impact on their community. No one knew who these men were, but they showed up and they called themselves the Black Muslims. So that was a little 50 years ago. These men showed up and told the people and the community that it was going to give them their city back. No one knew what to anticipate until that dreadful day when several people was killed.
Well, I got individuals that was there. That was a part of it that spoke with the men on several occasions about why they was there, the men who was there that day on North Street in front of the Temple Masonic Lodge building. This where everything took place on January 10, you’re going to hear from different people about what had happened, how it happened. Now a strange thing about it. No one has said much about it since then. No one has brought up about what had happened 50 years ago. It’s kind of like this got swept under the rug. Count time is here to share, to expose, to encourage the community about things about the present, the past, and our future, on where we should be going, how we should work together, how the community should come together. So we want to make sure that you understand these things that happen right in front of your eye, that you saw many saw many experience, but very few are talking about it. But we want to make sure that we bring this back.
Like the 50 year, I’m going to say anniversary of Smith and Brown, brown and Denver Smith who was killed on Southern University campus later that year. So we want to make sure that we have the anniversary of these men who came to Baton Rouge to fight and to stand for the their community.
The life of a linguist and how to become one. The spectacular story of an author, linguist, social justice advocate, mentor and parent. Our Living Legend is Professor of Linguistics in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona.
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Count Time Podcast Living Legend Sonja Lanehart
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Sonja Lanehart is Professor of Linguistics in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arizona with a partial appointment in Teaching, Learning, and Sociocultural Studies in the College of Education as well as a Faculty Fellow in the Graduate College as of August 2019. Her scholarship focuses on language, literacy, and education in African American communities; language and identity; sociolinguistics and language variation; and Black education from Black feminist and Critical Race Theory perspectives.
How the valorization of “proper” English has affected the language, literacy, educational achievements, and self-image of five African American women—the author’s grandmother, mother, aunt, sister, and herself. Through interviews and written statements by each woman, Lanehart draws out the life stories of these women and their attitudes toward and use of language.
She is particularly interested in African American Women’s Languages and pushing the boundaries of research in sociolinguistics and language variation to be more diverse, inclusive, and intersectional (e.g., race/ethnicity, gender, sexuality, gender identity, region, SES, and religion) as seen with the significant research advancement presented in The Oxford Handbook of African American Language (Oxford University Press, 2015). She also is an advocate for mentoring and the retention of emerging scholars of color and a social justice advocate for equity and inclusion.
This book is a groundbreaking collection of research on African American Women’s Language, bringing together a range of research including variationist, autoethnography, phenomenological, ethnographic, and critical, coming from a variety of disciplines, scientific paradigms, and inquiry methods while addressing a variety of African American female populations and activity settings.
She is a past co-editor (with Paul Schutz) of Educational Researcher: Research News and Comment section, the lead journal of the American Educational Research Association, which is delivered to more than 23,000 members.
This volume critically examines African American English (AAE) socially, culturally, historically, and educationally. It explores the relationship between AAE and other varieties of English, language use in the African American community, and application of our knowledge about AAE to issues in education. It seeks to challenge researchers with the complexity of defining a language and its speakers.
She is also a past book review editor of American Speech. She is the author of Sista, Speak! Black Women Kinfolk Talk about Language and Literacy (U Texas Press, 2002), which received Honorable Mention in the 2003 Myers Outstanding Book Award competition sponsored by the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights in North America, editor of Sociocultural and Historical Contexts of African American English (John Benjamins, 2001), and African American Women’s Language: Discourse, Education, and Identity (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009). She most recently published The Oxford Handbook of African American Language (Oxford University Press, 2015).
The Handbook offers a survey of language and its uses in African American communities from a wide range of contexts organized into seven sections. It is a handbook of research on African American Language (AAL) and, as such, provides a variety of scholarly perspectives that may not align with each other—as is indicative of most scholarly research.
Humble philanthropist, physician, community leader, LSU Legend and a man of faith. Our living legend describes growing up in poverty and the forces that led him to become the friend of countless sports superstars and help shape the growth of a university.
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Count Time Podcast Living Legend Jack Andonie
Selected quotes and notes from Count Time Podcast with LD Azobra Interview with Dr. Jack Andonie
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Dr. Andonie is a fellow of The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and a former Clinical Professor in the LSU School of Medicine OB/GYN Department, was the first obstetrician/gynecologist to perform a C/Section with an Epidural in Louisiana in the 1960s.
Now retired, he serves as Chairman of the Board of Chateau du Notre Dame, and Board Chair of Hotel Hope, a rehabilitation facility in New Orleans for homeless mothers and their children. He also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Spirit of Charity Foundation, formerly the Medical Center of Louisiana Foundation.
Dr. Andonie is a former Chairman of the Board to both the LSU Board of Supervisors, the LSU Health Science Center Foundation, and the National Board of Directors for the LSU Alumni Association, a role he held for nearly 25 years. Prior to fulfilling those roles, he served on the Board of Directors for LSU Health Science Center Healthcare Network and the Health Education Authority of Louisiana.
He has served on many committees and boards within the Archdiocese of New Orleans including Catholic Charities, Our Lady of Holy Cross College, St. Vincent de Paul, Pontifical Mission Society, the Catholic Foundation, Rebuild Center, Serra Club, Ozanam Inn, Closer Walk Ministries, Family Life Apostolate, WLAE, CRISTO SANA, and Chateau de Notre Dame. In the Greater New Orleans area and Baton Rouge, he has served with Goodwill Institute Hospice, United Way, and several other entities at LSU.
He founded a free clinic for women in Granada, Nicaragua, and also established the first dental clinic at Ozanam Inn. Dr. Andonie is the husband of Pricilla Andonie. Together, they have three children: Jacquelyn, Patrick, and Jon.