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Show Transcript SCOTT: ELAINE ESTES IS A WEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE. SHE CAME TO IOWA AT 16 TO ATTEND DRAKE UNIVERSITY. AND SHE MADE HISTORY AS THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO RESIDE IN DRAKE DORMS AND AS AN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR DES MOINES PUBLIC LIBRARY. KCCI’S RHEYA SPIGNER SHARES HER STORY. RHEYA: WALKING THROUGH, I THINK I WANT TO START WITH YOUR JOURNEY COMING FROM MISSOURI TO DRAKE UNIVERSITY.% ELAINE: THEY INDICATED THAT THEY DID NOT HAVE AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE DORMITORY. MY PARENTS SAID I COULD NOT COME TO SCHOOL HERE AT 16-YEARS-OLD, BECAUSE I HAD TO BE IN THE DORMITORY. RHEYA: TALK TO ME ABOUT WHAT FELT LIKE, BEING IN DES MOINES. DID IT SEEM NEUTRAL, DID IT SEEM PROGRESSIVE FOR PEOPLE WHO LOOK LIKE US? ELAINE: WE WERE LATER SURPRISED THAT SOME THINGS WERE NOT AS OPEN AS WE HAD EX
Filmmaker and director Miriam Randolph believes the term Iowa nice is commonly used but not always practiced. Author: Khalil Maycock Updated: 11:44 AM CST February 18, 2021
DES MOINES, Iowa Two filmmakers displaced from California because of wildfires and COVID-19 have created a film titled Nature of the Dream , which explores Black identity in Iowa.
Filmmaker and director Miriam Randolph said the film takes personal experiences from a group of nine Black people, who are from the metro, and turns it into a piece highlighting their dreams and experiences. I wanted to focus on personal dreams that African Americans have, Randolph said.
Honing in on those experiences is used as a way to show others how the American Dream sometimes does and sometimes does not, apply to Blacks in the United States.
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During a visit to her alma mater, Des Moines Roosevelt High School, in 2016, then 90-year-old Cloris Leachman delivered a TeddyTalk, where she was asked why she became an actress.
“It was just something to do for fun, she replied, according to an account on the Des Moines Public Schools website. It still is.”
The reality, however, is that the Academy Award-winning Leachman spent most of her life on a stage of one sort or another, working to develop the talents that would carry her to fame in movies ranging from the madcap Young Frankenstein to the bleakly tragic The Last Picture Show, for which she won her Oscar.
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When Jeremy Hoffman’s wife began working from home in spring 2020, the pair went to work upgrading the home office to ensure her workspace would be in compliance with confidentiality regulations. As a psychologist, she needed strict security for her records.
They installed a safe and new locks on the doors of her home office, which no one else in the household works from. Hoffman segmented the household’s internet network so none of her work devices connect to the household’s Wi-Fi, and she connects through a VPN.