Our Living Legend talks about family, LSU and football. A member of the LSU National Championship Football team playing on the Chinese Bandits squad, a politician and family patriarch.
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Count Time Podcast Living Legend Gus Kinchen
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Gaynell Kinchen was born in 1938 in Albany, Louisiana, and attended Baton Rouge High School. Upon graduation, he was given a scholarship to play football at LSU. Kinchen played defensive end for the Tigers from 1957-1960 and was both a member of the 1958 National Championship team and the famous Chinese Bandits unit. He is still living in Baton Rouge.
Kinchen was interviewed by and housed in the T Harry Williams Center for Oral History at LSU Libraries Special Collections. * Kinchen, Gaynell “Gus R interview by Scott Purdy, audio recording, 1993, 4700.0317. Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections, LSU Libraries, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
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Now we gonna keep it rolling. We got another great here today. One of the legendaries. I mean the family itself. The family name speaks for itself. They’ve been around a long time. A bunch of beautiful people, beautiful family who I’ve been knowing for quite some time who always been very welcoming and supportive of me. And I’d like to welcome you Mr. Gaynell Gus Kinchen.
GK You cheated on me, man. I blame my daddy for that. Actually, my daddy called me Gaynell. My mom called me Gaynell from the time I was born. But when we moved back here to Baton Rouge from Mobile we had been over there for nine years. The first day I walked into the dressing room at Baton Rouge High, I met Bat Guerrier I said, hey, I’m Gaynell Kinchen. He said, hey, Gus, how are you? Because he knew I was named after Gus Tensley at LSU. Coach Tinsley, originally the coach at LSU in all American end.
LD So your family are Hungarian?
GK Well, my mother is Hungarian. My mother is full blooded Hungarian. My dad is full blooded country. He is a hillbilly stump jumper or whatever you want to call him. But he was from out of Albany.
From football walk on in high school to working for Russell Long and Edwin Edwards to the Voice of Tiger Stadium our Living Legend tells his story of a life well lived.
He celebrates his 37th year as Public Address announcer for LSU football and men’s basketball games. His signature line before each football game, “Chance of rain … never!” is always followed by the roar of the Tiger faithful. The husband, father and deacon in the Catholic church has successfully served in the public and private sectors.
Count Time Podcast Living Legend Dan Borné
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I don’t know how to say this today, but we do. What we call a living legend section. He think it’s funny.
DB I’m with a living legend right here to my right. That’s the legend.
LD We have the living legend here, the voice of the LSU Fighting Tigers. Football, basketball. Welcome to Count Time, Mr. Dan Borne.
DB Thank you so much, Lyman. It’s an honor to be with you. I followed your career over all your years and I respect you and look forward to chatting with you.
LD How much I owe you for that?
DB Well, your makeup people did a great job on you anyway. You look like you’re about 20 years younger, man.
LD I’ll let you know the reason he’s so good like that. He worked with Governor Edwin Edwards. We’re going to get to that. That’s going to be a pretty good story. But this young man here is the voice of LSU Fighting Tigers, have been for 30
DB This 2022 will be my 37th year doing football in the stadium and 35th year doing basketball. I started football in 1986 and basketball in 1988.
LD And you started after the great Sid
DB After the great Sid Crocker I went to Nicholls State for my undergraduate degree. Well, I did get a master’s from LSU and Nichols prepared me for that Lyman. But everybody comes to the Land grant college sooner or later. But I went to Nicholls and I got out of Nicholls in 1968, if you can imagine how far back that was. I came to Baton Rouge to come to graduate school.
I went to work at Channel Nine and I met Sid Crocker because he worked at Channel Nine. In September of 1968, when I was covering my very first LSU football game against Texas A&M here at Tiger Stadium, I went up to the press box and Sid said, come over and see where I work. He said, you might be doing this one day. And we laughed about it, we chuckled about it.
LD But he spoke that to you.
DB He spoke that. So it’s a prophecy. So you fast forward a lot of jobs and a lot of trips and a lot of moves later, and we’re in 1985 now, and the 85 season is over. I heard that Sid was going to retire from the PA job at LSU, and I still knew him very well, although I hadn’t been in broadcasting for years. So I called him and asked him who’s going to take his place? And he said he didn’t know. He had no idea, but he wanted to be in the stands with his family instead of in the press box. He had been up there for something like 30 years.
So I wrote a letter to Bob Broadhead. And you remember Bob Broadhead, he was athletic director back there and I didn’t know anybody at LSU. I just simply wrote him a letter out of the blue. I told him that I would love to be considered for the PA job. And I mailed the letter in December of 1985, and I didn’t hear anything. Nothing.
The 89 year old mother, author matriarch of New Orleans most successful political family discusses the importance of family, Martin Luther King, Andrew Young, Mahalia Jackson, Global Warming and more. Our Living Legend is our history.
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Count Time Podcast Living Legend Sybil Haydel Morial
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By necessity and choice, Sybil, her late husband, Ernest “Dutch” Morial, and their five children became legal, then political activists. After serving in the Louisiana state legislature as the first African American, her husband became the first black mayor of New Orleans in 1974. In 1994, Sybil’s oldest son, Marc, who is now president of the National Urban League, would also begin two terms as mayor.
The daughter of a well-respected physician in New Orleans, Sybil grew up in a middle-class, integrated neighborhood in New Orleans during the 1940s and 50s. After graduating from Boston University, where she met fellow student Martin Luther King Jr., Sybil became the first African American to teach in the Newton, Massachusetts, public-school system. Upon returning to New Orleans, Sybil participated in some of the first tests for integration attempting to enroll at both Tulane and Loyola. In 1962, she was the lone plaintiff in a successful challenge to a statute prohibiting public-school teachers from being involved in any organization advocating civil rights. She also formed the Louisiana League of Good Government to help African-American citizens register to vote.
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SHM This is what Martin Luther King said. Oh, and I went to school with Martin Luther King.
LD No, no, don’t be telling that. You have to tell the truth honest to God.
SHM He was at Boston University working on his doctorate when I was an undergraduate school, and that was in the 50s, when the early 50s, when the civil rights movement was really hot. This was before he went back home to Atlanta to lead the Montgomery Bus boycott. But back then, all the black students knew each other from Boston College. Boston University. MIT. Harvard. We all knew each other through fraternities and sororities and through the black network. We know people who know people who know people.
And so when a black minister had to be out of town, he’d invite Martin, because Martin was already an ordained minister when he was working on his doctorate. So when we found out Martin, you know we were talking about what was going to happen after the Supreme Court decision. Change is coming. Change is coming. And so Martin would speak at a black church in Roxbury, which is the black part of Boston. We’d go in the dormitory. Martin speaking tomorrow at such and such a church at Columbus Baptist Church.
He was a great speaker. Oh, God, natural talent. I’m telling you. It was Women’s Day, and I remember this sermon so well. He said, Woman is a great institution. And he kept talking about all of our assets, how we were brave and loving and smart, all the things that we really are. And I was already into the black faze, but that’s when the women’s thing really clicked with me. Yes, we are. We are all of that.
LD So before that, he brought that to you.
SHM That’s right. I’m a woman, but I’m all in. That’s right. And so he just gave me that. But we would see each other all the time because Dutch was in the movement. We’d see him out. I would go to conferences with Dutch, and he dated my best friend.
But let me tell you, Martin, back in the 1950, 51, 52 had a car. Nobody had a car back in the day. And any girl would give her anything they Martin, so you wouldn’t have to walk through the snow to go the subway, to go to the movies.
LD He had an advantage over everybody.
SHM Oh, yeah. But he dated my best friend Jean, and we’re still in touch. Gene lives in Charlotte, and we visit each other. We old we can’t visit no more. We talk on the phone. But in fact, she wrote Martin a letter, and it’s in his papers, because this guy collected all of Martin’s papers. You know what papers are when you put them in archives? I put my little papers in archives, too, but guess what? They got a grant to process my papers, so they must have thought there was value to it.
The greenhouse effect is a process that occurs when gases in Earth’s atmosphere trap the Sun’s heat. This process makes Earth much warmer than it would be without an atmosphere. The greenhouse effect is one of the things that makes Earth a comfortable place to live.
The greenhouse effect is essential to life on Earth, but human-made emissions in the atmosphere are trapping and slowing heat loss to space.
Five key greenhouse gases are CO2, nitrous oxide, methane, chlorofluorocarbons, and water vapor.
While the Sun has played a role in past climate changes, the evidence shows the current warming cannot be explained by the Sun.
The 89 year old mother, author matriarch of New Orleans most successful political family discusses the importance of knowing your ancestry. A first rate storyteller lets us in on a couple centuries of her family history woven into a recipe for successful navigation of the American experience for those of the African Diaspora. From the Wolof people of Senegal to the Haydel plantation to participating in ending Jim Crow tyranny to First Lady of New Orleans our Living Legend is our history.
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Count Time Podcast Living Legend Sybil Haydel Morial
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Sybil Haydel Morial (1932- ) was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Eudora Arnaud and Clarence C. Haydel. The wife of the first African American mayor of the City of New Orleans, Ernest N. “Dutch” Morial, Sybil Morial spent her career in the education field, first as a public school teacher and then later, as a dean at Xavier University in New Orleans. A community activist, Morial has served on numerous boards and committees that focus on women’s professional advocacy through her memberships with the International Women’s Forum Leadership Foundation and the affiliated Louisiana Women’s Forum.
Other organizations that she has served over the years include The Links, Inc.; Advocates for Science and Mathematics Foundation; the Youth and The Arts National Committee; HMO Louisiana, Inc. and Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana; The Public Law Center; PICO National Network; the Southern Institute for Education and Research; among others. Morial served as president and chair of the I’ve Known Rivers Afro-American Pavilion Louisiana World Exposition (1982-1985).
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Well, y’all better get ready, folks, because today gonna be another doosie. We got truly a living legend here that sits before me. And I like to welcome Miss Sybil Haydel Morial
SHM Happy to be here to talk to you.
LD And we are very happy for you to open your home up to us to come here and do this interview. And I like to thank my dear friend and Dr. Joyce Marie Jackson for making this happen because these ladies are Link sisters. So we want you all to tune in today and enjoy this wonderful story. But we want to get you started today. You have so much history. We got to get to your book that you wrote. Like, what makes you how old were you 84? What made you write a book? So we want to get into all this. Now, you were born in 1932, so you’re 90 years old.
SHM I’m going to be 90 in November. I got some stories to tell.
LD But your mind is just sharp as ever. That’s got to be a beautiful thing.
SHM I take care of myself. I cook for myself. I don’t have a car anymore because I had a bad accident, But I know how to manage. I got somebody who takes my children, shop for me and all that. I have three children that live here. They don’t live too far from me. Two of them live kind of right around the corner. You got to stay sharp. I read a lot. I work crossword puzzles every day. Keep my mind keep busy. I take care of my business, pay all my bills, so I do all that. So when you have to do all that, your mind says sharp, keeps you engaged.
Now my body’s getting raggedy since that accident. I got to walk with a cane. But I have a really cool cane. My life is good. I told the doctor last time, my parts are wearing out. But I was in a hospital, and it was at LSU New Hospital. And so they had attended for residents and so forth that came in my room and they said, oh, we’re in the wrong room. I said, well, who are you looking for? They said for Sybil Morial. I said, well, that’s me. They said, oh, we’re looking for an 89 year old lady. You can’t be 89 years old. Said to myself, Black, don’t crack.
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Count Time Podcast 75th Episode Congratulations LD Azobra!
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Today is going to be a little different. Hi, I’m James Becnel with Smart Brotha Media producers of Count Time Podcast with LD Azobra. Today is Count Times 75th Episode We want to celebrate and congratulate my brother LD for over a years worth of podcast that are now heard in 25 countries around the world. Congratulations, LD.
So today we’re going to have in honor of this great body of work, he’s put together several clips from audience favorite episodes. We start with a clip from Interview with Julia B. Moore. The amazing storyteller, this one you need to hear. If you want to hear the whole story, check out the Interview with Julia B. Moore episode 37. And of course, this is LD So you can’t go without having some of the episodes with some of sports greatest luminaries. And be sure to stay till the end for clips from future episodes. More Count Time excellence. And believe me, you’re going to want to hear these. So now the highlights from some of your favorite episodes of Count Time Podcasts with LD Azobra.
What is the most memorable thing to happen to/with your podcast?
At the end of my interview of LSU Legendary Coach Dale Brown he turned to me and said, “damn LD this was the best interview I’ve ever done you did a hell of a job. You asked good questions and you allowed me to answer them.”
His comments encouraged me to believe I can do this and I have the ability to interview anyone. Thanks Coach
Clips are from the following episodes
History
Episode 37 Interview with Julia B Moore Nov 4, 2021
Episode 42 Interview with Freya Rivers Dec 9, 2021
Episode 62 Ronnie Moore May 12, 2022
Episode 60 Passing of Johnnie A Jones, Sr. Apr 28, 2022
Episode 30 Interview with Dr. Johnnie Jones, Sr. Sept 16, 2021
Sports
Episode 27 Interview with Coach Dale Brown Aug 26, 2021
Episode 40 Interview with Ramsey Dardar Nov 25, 2021
Episode 13 An Interview with Coach Lynn Leblanc May 13, 2021
Upcoming episodes
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Count Time Podcast Living Legend Tyler Lafauci
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He was a first-team All-American football player his senior season in 1973 for the LSU Tigers of Louisiana State University (LSU). Mainly playing as an offensive guard, he was also a first-team All-Southeastern Conference selection in 1973 and a second-team selection in 1972. After college, he became a prominent physical therapist in Baton Rouge and in 1983, was inducted into the LSU Athletic Hall of Fame. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and attended De La Salle High School, where as a senior he was a class triple-A all-state selection as both an offensive and defensive guard and was named the state’s outstanding lineman.
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Today, once again, we gonna keep it real with my tigers. And I got someone here I’ve been knowing for quite some time. We didn’t play together, but he was a true tiger, heart to heart, and he’s been a friend of mine, someone that I always can go to a confidante. Somebody You always trust and always got a listening ear. And I got my brother, Tyler Lafauci. Welcome to Count Time.
TL Thank you, Lyman. It’s an honor and a pleasure to be here talking to you. You’ve been one of my favorites. We’ve known each other for a long time and man, look, it’s like whenever we get together, it’s just like just picking up. It’s not starting over, we just pick up. But you’re always that kind of man.
LD Well, I appreciate that. I appreciate that and I appreciate your friendship. I mean, look at the days You have never had that problem You always treated everybody just saying.
TL well, look, I’ve always felt, and I’ve always had this in my heart that, look, I want to treat people the way I would want to be treated. That’s personally. Whether it’s a friendship or whether I was in the physical therapy clinic treating patients, I always wanted to treat people the way I would want That has kept me pretty steady for all my life.
LD Well, you have truly. I’m here to witness it and say you have always practiced what you preach.
Entrepreneur, artist our living legend talks about a mixture of history, inspiration, legacy and faith. His family run business established during Reconstruction (1875) has been passed down for generations. He describes the effort and drive needed to maintain a successful business from the reconstruction era through Jim Crow to modern times starting with his great-grandfather the founder. He is a musician with the “voice of an angel” he describes the importance of faith in his life and his legacy.
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Count Time Podcast Living Legend Stanley Francis
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Bringing on someone I met quite a few years ago. His family has been in business he has been in business for a long time down here in Donaldsonville, Louisiana. Welcome, Mr. Stanley Francis to Count Time
SF Thanks a lot, brother Lyman. And I’d like to talk about the history of this business. This business started in 1875.
LD Really? So you’re telling me your family, people of the African descent own the business right after slavery?
SF That’s right.
LD Now, tell me, who’s your family?
SF well, we’re going to start out with Telesphore Francis. T-E-L-E-S-P-H-O-R-E. Francis. That’s my great grandfather. My great grandfather was what you call a free person of color. He was an Aristocrat. He raised horses in the Kentucky Derby. And I received letters from some of his friends where his horse had won a couple of them races in the Kentucky Derby. And he also had horses that he would race out there in the fairground. Way back then, the fairground was like a place to go to the races. Later on, they used it for state fair and stuff like that. But in the beginning, it was used for horse racing and horse grooming and all this stuff.
He started this business right here, right next to this cemetery. Him and the priest were very tight at that particular time. It started as an undertaking business at that time. There was no embalming. It was a cooling board. my grandfather had the black hearse was pulled by three Norman horses. Well, they look like the Clydesdales. They’re pretty close. I’ll say second cousin to the Clydesdale. But they’re heavy horses. And the reason that they had three horses is because the wheels would sink in the ground when you’re burying somebody in the cemetery. So the third horse actually, the horse in front was actually the third horse. He had two horses on one on each side, and the third horse was in front. So the third horse would pull the buggy out of the stuff.
And, you know, they had to open windows on these little I call them Hearse Buck boards. They had four big windows open on the way. You can see the casket inside. And they had four candle lights on each side of the little each side, so you can light the way and everything. My grandfather and the priest uptown father googler. So the priest gave my great grandfather this property for him to live because he was burying all these people out here for nothing. People that had money would pay. Most of them that didn’t have money he would bury them for nothing, put them on the cooling board, put them in the casket and stuff like that. And haul them out to the cemetery. That’s why my great grandfather was so close with Rev. Googler back then. There was no embalming. When they put you in a grave, you had your blood in. All the blood was still in. They tried to get you in the ground as quickly as possible because you had all the blood in you. And of course they would dig six foot feet to keep the odor from coming up. But nowadays you don’t have to go as deep because of this embalming process.
LD is excited and you should be too, because the Nurses of 4South of the Baton Rouge General Hospital, the segregated ward in the 50’s and 60’s, are being honored. A dedication will be held next Wednesday July 27, 2022 at 7036 Florida Blvd. in the hospital chapel.
Please come out and celebrate with us in support of the nurses, that they may know their labor is appreciated and was not in vain. They had to overcome segregation, discrimination and everything else that comes with living under oppression.
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Count Time Podcast Honoring the Nurses of 4South
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“Modern Medicine
The morning of January 30, 1950, was a big day for Baton Rouge General. The small hospital on Government Street had outgrown its facility, and more than 20,000 people had assembled at 3600 Florida Blvd. to see the “new” Baton Rouge General Hospital open its doors. Many in the crowd had donated their money and time to make this new hospital a reality. That morning, 19 patients were transported by ambulance to the 250-bed facility, and the clinical staff got to work providing healthcare services, including emergency care, in one of the finest hospitals in the state of Louisiana…
… Healthcare in the ‘40s and ‘50s focused on diseases such as polio and tuberculosis. To address the need for isolation and specialized care, the fourth floor of the hospital was set up as a polio unit, which at the height of the epidemic, housed up to 75 patients. Polio sufferers with chest paralysis were treated in “iron lungs” which helped them breathe. When a lifesaving polio vaccine became available, nurses and volunteers at Baton Rouge General administered it to thousands of Baton Rouge residents.”*
On this 4th of July our family celebrated the life and legacy of our father Lorman. My mom Doris also made a call to action for all her children, grand and great grand to stand-up and be Counted because it’s Count Time. She prayed to remove any curse or anything that’s standing in the way of our blessings. She ended letting us know that God’s Kingdom is in all of us but we have to be the one to tap into our greatness and his kingdom.
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Count Time Podcast A Personal 4th of July
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At the recent 4th of July celebration in Franklin, Louisiana LD’s family also celebrated the life of his parents and his father who was murdered 40 years ago. This celebration of independence led to this release of his previously recorded but unpublished thoughts about how the “Kingdom of God is at hand.”
I was home this week as we celebrate the declaration of our independence I said Of our independence, and there was some wonderful things that happened.
I like to, first of all, thank my lovely family who showed up, showed out, and represented my niece nephews, great nieces, great nephews. And my mom did an awesome job. Thank you, mom. You say there is an awesome God, but how powerful. And also, you got a mother who’s awesome as well, a mother who’s caring, loving, respectful, and have taught and put so much great things in us. Without my mom, we would not be nothing.
Thank you, mom. You raised eight children basically by yourself, because this weekend we were celebrating the life of our dad, who has been gone for 40 years. Over 40 years, he has been gone. And it’s been a different world, different life without your dad. But you know life goes on with you, without you. That’s what we all have to learn. But it was a beautiful weekend, beautiful time, with everyone being there, celebrating the life of both of these wonderful people, our mother and our father. Our father who was taken away at a very early age of most of his children because of a man who stood for something.
My dad was a man’s man. He was a man who never didn’t have what we call much education, but he was a well educated man in the way of life, truth, insight. And every day, my dad came home from work. He worked at He was a truck driver at one time. He was at the shipyard for the last year, McDermott shipyard Come to think about it. But every day he came home from work, he would sit in the bathroom and read the paper from cover to cover. It was only the Franklin banner paper, so I don’t think it was that many pages, but it was enough that he would sit there and read. So he kept himself informed, well read, and knew what was going on and fought for those things that he thought was right, just And that was beneficial to the community.
Because, frankly, at that time, he had two parks that we call the black park and the white park. One was on one side of town, was on the other side of town. Of course, we did not have access to what they call the white park, but my dad didn’t play that. He would load us up in the station wagon. We would go to the other side of town, into the park. Police come out there, and they would attempt to run us away. But my dad didn’t play. Police knew he didn’t play. They didn’t want no trouble from my dad. So that’s the type of man that he was. He didn’t just fight for his children. He fought for the whole community. He was one who was going to fight for all. He was not afraid to take a stand in the fight. What a man. What a man. Thank you, dad, for fighting for us all. Now, because of that, it’s why he didn’t live a long, prosperous life, because he didn’t mind fighting for those fighting against injustice, for justice, for those who he thought deserved it.
But anyway, back to my mom this weekend. Mom we thank you so much. She gave us a speech. There was a wonderful speech that your mom, going on 83 years of age, can sit there and share with her children’s, children’s, children about the time and the days to come, a little bit about the past, but mostly where it’s going. And she asked that it’s time that the curse on the generation of her children be removed, that whatever curse that have haunted her children, her family, that this curse would no longer be there, we all receive what she said. But to hear your mom speak with so much authority, so much power, and to be in her right mind, to share her heart with her family, it’s a powerful thing. It’s a very powerful thing.
But she ended her message to her children with the kingdom of God. She told us all that the kingdom of God is in us, and we need to operate within that power that we have, that’s within us, that the kingdom of God is at hand. And that’s what brings me to this point today. Several weeks ago, the Lord had put on my heart to share a message I put together, like a little quick podcast one evening. Didn’t quite know where I was going with it, but it was on my heart. So if something on your heart. You got to get it off. But that’s what I’m learning to do. I’m getting better with it as I get older that some things come to your heart, come to your spirit, come to your soul. And sometimes you have to release it because sometimes it’s not just for you, it’s for others. And the title of my message several weeks ago was the Kingdom of God is at Hand.
Attorney, pioneer, entrepreneur, avid collector of African-American art, conversant in Russian and French our Living Legend describes his journey from Trinidad to power and community activism.
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Count Time Podcast Living Legend Conan Louis
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An experienced manager with a strong track record of success in diverse settings such as the Smithsonian, the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and international law firms. He is the founder of CNL Solutions, a private consulting and legal services firm and is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia and the United States Court of International Trade. He is a graduate of Georgetown University with degrees in Applied Linguistics, Social Linguistics and Law.
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 keeping it rolling on this with our podcast. We always have these great, interesting men and women who have done and still doing great things. And what I want you to know, we have another one here today. We got here a brother by the name of Conan Louis. Welcome to Count Time.
CL Well, that’s the primary reason why I was here. But also, several years ago, we did some work for, again, the river road African American museum, and its founder had an event, which is where I met you. And so we took some time to get there and check that out as well. And that was really a great event.
It was particularly great for me because it focused on 272 enslaved people who were sold by the Jesuits from Georgetown University, sold down here to Louisiana. I’m a three time Georgetown graduate school of languages and linguistics, 1973, the graduate school, 1978, and Georgetown university law center class of 1986. But I’m also the former associate vice president for alumni relations at the university, so that event had some significance for me.
LD So now, were you still working there when they revealed this information at that time of 2017?
CL No, I had already left Georgetown as a full time employee, but I remained then, and as I am today, a part of the alumni leadership of the university. I served on the board of governors of the university, which is the governing body for the Georgetown University alumni association.
And I’m very proud of the students because they were the impetus for bringing this to the attention of the university. And they were very clear that they wanted to see some action. And in a very short order, they got the president university to take a decision to take the names off of a couple of buildings, take the names of two Jesuits had been involved with the sale, and they renamed those two buildings after two of the enslaved who had been sold two of the 272.