• Vera J. Katz, Grit For Generational Naches

  • Feb 1 2023
  • Length: 1 hr and 20 mins
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Vera J. Katz, Grit For Generational Naches

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  • Naches - Yiddish for familial joy or pride. Professor Vera J. Katz shares a riveting story of enduring firings, isolation from peers, persecution from students, busted car windows, slashed car tires and other indignities on her path to become a tenured professor at Howard University and one of the most celebrated acting coaches and experts to teach THE Black Panther Chadwick Boseman, Taraji P. Henson, Debbie Allen, Anthony Anderson, Phylicia Rashad and Corey Hawkins. Hear her coping skills for enduring isolation, persecution, unjust accusations and using the legal system to overcome institutional resistance to new ideas. Professor Katz demonstrates her Grit For Generational Naches, her life purpose, to bring joy and pride to generations of marginalized people, both Jews and African-Americans alike. Hear private, intimate moments about the late Chadwick Boseman, long before his fame. Hear an episode filled with gems of conversation!
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