In June 2023, The Computer History Museum (Mountain View, CA) published my oral history (https://bit.ly/CHMOH_DB_YT) for my contributions to the computing world as an Internet strategist for The Universal Black Pages (an Internet directory of African-related content), and as the founding director of KnowledgeBase’s Project CHIP (which refurbished and redistributed 1500+ computers to Georgia families and organizations). My oral history experience inspired a new project called #YourStory. #YourStory combines #StandupStorytelling with principles and best practices of oral history recording to document the thoughts and experiences of ordinary people who do extraordinary work. EPISODE 1.04 "TRANSCRIPT": ... 17m10sec ... hmmmm (CMcI) ... Dorothy Parler was my favorite teacher - but I feared her ... skipping grades made me the smallest of the small ... my mouth made me the tallest of the tall ... I had to curb this ... I learned to "speak my piece" and "speak my peace" ... Beverly Parler looks like her Mama ... 20m28sec ...