Abstract
In this 2025 interview, Mikel Jordan, an employee at NuPoint Community Development Corporation, discusses growing up on E. 147th Street and Glendale Avenue. She describes the history of her family in Cleveland, early memories in the Lee-Harvard area, and her involvement in the early Cleveland hip-hop scene in the 1980s. Jordan also details her early explorations throughout Cleveland and the southeast side by bus, different neighborhood identities, and the effects of crack cocaine on communities. At the end of the interview, she emphasizes the importance of building community networks at the neighborhood level.
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Interviewee
Jordan, Mikel (interviewee)
Interviewer
Carubia, Ava (interviewer)
Project
Union-Miles
Date
1-23-2025
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
65 minutes
Recommended Citation
"Mikel Jordan interview, 23 January 2025" (2025). Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Interview 483013.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc000/1361
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