Mary Evans
Mary Evans is a Dayton, Ohio-based activist, abolitionist, and journalist. She holds a BA in the Business of Interdisciplinary Media Arts from Antioch College. In 2022 she was awarded the Bob and Norma Ross Outstanding Leadership Award at the 71st Dayton NAACP Hall of Freedom Awards. She has been a Community Voices producer at WYSO since 2018. Her projects include: ReEntry Stories, a series giving space to system-impacted individuals and West Dayton Stories, a community-based story-telling project centered on the people and places of Dayton’s vibrant West Side. Mary is also the co-founder of the Journalism Lab and helps folks in the Miami Valley that are interested in freelance journalism reach some of their reporting goals.
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We visit DeSoto Bass in this season of West Dayton Stories, the city’s oldest and largest public housing complex. The stories from this place are tender and troubled, and reveal some of the history of Dayton’s African American West Side. -
Community Voices producer amaha sellassie is a student of community; here are his thoughts on what it is — and what it could be.
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Community Voices producer Omopé Carter Daboiku considers community, she sees a plurality.
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Community Voices Producer Jaylon Yates shares his take on the Dayton community where he wants to have an impact.
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West Dayton Stories is our series highlighting the strength and resilience of Dayton’s African-American community. It’s produced at the Eichelberger Center for Community Voices at WYSO.
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In a unique twist, artist James Pate opens his own gallery, Black Palette, right next to his mentor, Bing Davis, on West Third Street in Dayton, Ohio.
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We meet Sarah Davis, who, with her husband Patrick Davis, started The Fringe Coffee House.
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We meet Auria Morales, who found a helping hand at the Fringe Coffee House in Hamilton, when she got out of prison a year ago.
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We meet Lorrie Carter, the first employee of The Fringe Coffee House in Hamilton, a place where formerly incarcerated citizens can find work and the help they need to re-enter society.
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Mary Evans interviews Patrick Davis of the Fringe Coffeehouse in Hamilton – which is offering a range of much-needed services to formerly incarcerated citizens.
