Kwanda Trice Talks About Visiting Home, Her Passion for Education

WKMS | By Whitney Jones

Published August 8, 2013 at 2:22 PM CDT

Douglass High School was the African-American school in Calloway County before the schools were integrated in the 1960s and this past weekend alumni and their families came to Murray for the school’s annual reunion.

Kwanda Trice, founder of Eloquent Commitment to Helping Our Sisters, returned to her hometown to speak at the gathering. She talks with Whitney Jones about her connections to the school and her passion for education.Trice is the founder of ECHOS and is currently working toward her doctorate at Howard University in Washington, DC.

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Whitney Jones

Whitney grew up listening to Car Talk to and from her family’s beach vacation each year, but it wasn’t until a friend introduced her to This American Life that radio really grabbed her attention. She is a recent graduate from Union University in Jackson, Tenn., where she studied journalism. When she’s not at WKMS, you can find her working on her backyard compost pile and garden, getting lost on her bicycle or crocheting one massive blanket.

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