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Just give me a little bit of a sound level. One, two, three. Peace and love Park School. Okay. My goodness. It's have been a long time since I've been in your long time. What is it, 17, 18 years? 18. 18. You g when my last report on Jay-Z was December of 77. So that's almost 28. My gosh. I was 20 in 19 years. Do you remember your last story? Not really. But it was it was I remember I was doing movie reviews at that time that just for half a minute they said, let's do movie reviews. And I did one, but I forgot what it was. Yeah. First off, Maria May are I A and b r o m just like you sweep with and you still go by. Maria. Still go by Maria Broom You were you were born and raised in Israel. Born and raised in Baltimore. Went to school. Went to high school here. Went to college here, went away, then came back. You were the story goes that you were a stewardess on an airline. Discover Exactly. I was with Pan Am based in Miami and they were just doing a story on hijack, hijacking, x ray devices. Those new devices that were they're not new anymore that you could see through the the luggage and whatnot. And a cameraman, a reporter came they did an interview with the captain and they did an interview with the stewardess on duty, which happened to be me. They interviewed me. They like my voice. And they told me that they had just lost their black female reporter. And they asked me if I was interested. And I said, Well, I really didn't have any background in news, etc., etc..","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851#t=8.119,111.37"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851/transcript/71669/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They took the tape on. I went on to Managua. When I came back, they gave me a call. They brought me in, they gave me an audition and asked me how would I like a job? That was for WPLG, the ABC affiliate, and that was in Miami 1972. So it was shortly thereafter you went with Channel 13. Exactly. I did stay there for about a year and left to come back to Baltimore to dance. So I thought I got back here. The dance job that I wanted didn't pan out, so I needed a job, went to 13 and they said, Have we got something for you? And that's how it started. Back then, you were the premiere young African female on television. Yeah, in Maryland, perhaps on the East Coast, probably Maryland or maybe in this. Probably Maryland because I think D.C. had a few j.c. Haywood was on before, but I mean, maybe you had a few, but your popularity was overwhelming. Yeah, it was something and I think it had a lot to do with the publicity blitz that they did too. I mean they really put the billboards up. Viva Maria. They actually had ads in Newsweek Jet magazine. I mean, they really did an extreme publicity blitz. And what I was doing, they advertised me as the public defender. This was the person that could you could write to me if you had problems with any stores or agencies. And we would go out there with their cameras and we would get things taken care of. You were like the get go for me. I was the original prior to get your and right prior to contact to write to me see how things go around in 20 years. yeah. And then you decided you wanted to try something else.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851#t=112.36,215.71"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851/transcript/71669/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Exactly. I wanted to dance. I stayed five years with Jay Z. We did the Public Defender. Then the year after that they added consumer power. That's when we had a live show at 530 and another one at 630. So I was public defender at 530, consumer power at 630. That's when consumerism that, you know, consumers could take charge of their lives. That was very popular then. So I did that, did that for five years. And then I really wanted to go back to my first love, which was dancing. I had always wanted to be a dancer since I was six, had studied dance, had been in dance, had performed and could not do both while I was in television. And by the time I reached my fifth year in television, you could see there was interest from other stations. The bigger markets about, Come on, did you want to do this? Do you want to do that? And I was saying, No, look, do I really want to plant my feet firmly on TV or do I want to get back to dance? And by that time I was 28 and I said, you need to make a clear decision. I said, Well, you better go to dance. I mean, how can you go all this time saying you want to dance and never fully try it? So I went into dance and I've been there since. Any regrets? No, not really. I mean, I'm glad I did television. I'm glad I didn't lose the wealth of information. The people that I met. I mean, just it was an excellent experience. It did a lot to bolster my self-confidence and my communication skills. But from then on, with the dance, the performing, the teaching, I'm happy.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851#t=215.95,297.1"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851/transcript/71669/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's where I want to be. So you're still you're teaching dance? I teach dance and I perform. And you're teaching drama. Exactly. At park school, I park well, I teach drama at the School for the Arts. I teach dance at Park school. But now here at the Park School camp, I teach drama just for the summer. So it's all right. I juggle it between the acting and the dance. As a performer and the teaching dance in the teaching drama as a teacher. All right. And you had a little TV, right? And you decided you're going to do the dance. Right. Right. You're still very attractive. You're still very young. How about another career? Another career? Well, I will say this. In 1990, I did go back into television for about five years with the cable station, the Mayor's Office of Cable and Communication, Cable 44. That was good. That was not quite as harried as working for news. It was pretty much an interview show, talk show every week for the mayor's office. So that was good. I enjoyed that. But then once again, I sort of drifted out of that because the dancing and the acting and the performances, they really take a lot out of you. They take a lot out of you. And the teaching those, too. Have you pursued acting as far as I mean, you know, Baltimore has become a big movie. I know. I know. Have you? Well, and you know, and auditioned for a couple of a couple of and I've gotten a couple I had a nice role in Clara's heart with will be Goldberg in 87. That was a nice little little role with a little screen credit and everything. I sold a chunk of money.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851#t=297.55,387.43"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851/transcript/71669/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I did an extra part in a meteor man. Some of the other movies that have come out I really haven't gone for, but I've gone for some of the plays. I will be in a production, a theater project in the fall. So I still keep my finger in acting. I like the acting. I like the stage acting particularly. And I have submitted my, my, my resume picture to the casting company. Should there be a role for me in something coming up? You know? But I just keep thinking things will come to me if they're supposed to be for me. And it seems to be the way my life has been so far that if it's for me, it winds up coming to me. And I'm grateful about that. Yeah. So what's around the corner? Any idea? I don't know. I feel like it's something very good. Something very big, but still something. That's very much what I'm about. I am The dancing in the acting is close to me, but also bringing some sort of peace, joy, Harmony into the world is very much about what I'm about to a health. All of those everything that I do, I want it to be worthwhile, that I want to do something just to be doing it. Just to just to be famous. A just for the name. I want that whatever I do that it should have an impact that contributes toward people's peace, toward people's health, toward toward harmony, toward people getting along. I really want to do something about people getting along with each other, especially with the young people, too. To let go of the racism, to forgive whatever needs to be forgiven so that we can get along in harmony. I have great expectations about what's going to happen with this planet and all of humanity.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851#t=388.12,485.59"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851/transcript/71669/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So I just want I want people to kind of get rid of some of the old hang ups that we have. Well, is there somebody that you admire who is doing that now? Mother Teresa, Of course. I mean, she's she's she's someone that I think is so selfless. There's some performers there, some actors and actresses. This sounds strange, but Robert Redford, not because he's so cute or anything, but a lot of his work, even in his movie making and his performances are usually roles and movies that are about harmony and working things out with people. Susan Sarandon Let me add some of those things. I don't have that. Is there a way that you try to implant that thought in in the minds of your students in drama? Yeah, especially in drama. And that's what we're going to be dealing with today. Every single class that I teach here at Park School, in the camp and also at the School for the Arts, and I'll be teaching the Ruxton Country School to always start with meditation, always starts with a meditation with the children, learning to go inside and get still first, to use that silence as a centering spot. And then from there we go into whatever it is we're going to memorize or work on. We use old Sanskrit techniques for strengthening the voice. So everything that I've learned that I use myself personally, I also pass it on to my students too, so they can use it in their work, so they can use it for relaxing, for shutting out the world, going inside so that whatever they're focusing on, whatever they're concentrating on, they can give their whole inner self to them. And it seems to work because when I do these productions, when I the responses that I get from the parents and the teachers and the other audiences are look at those children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851#t=486.19,595.24"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851/transcript/71669/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They're so poised, so confident, they're so they're so right there with us. And I know a lot of that has to do with the consistency in just getting them to meditate every day, getting still, forgiving themselves, forgiving others, letting go of things that are stressful. So I do that in every class I teach, whether it's children or adults, and it works and the children become better people. yeah, they learn to be a little bit more. Or respectful of others. They learned that silence and listening is equally as important as expressing and doing it, so that that's a great help so that when they become adults, maybe they'll carry some of these same habits with them. Hopefully that's what I'm hoping anyway. Stay right there. Getting people to resolve their differences, getting management to. That's her as it can be done is always ethnically inspired. Yeah. Right. So it might have been African. Might have been Eastern. But it was never just at age 20, Maria went to Germany on a Fulbright scholarship to study dance. Any particular kind of dance. Ballet is pretty much ballet and modern ballet and modern. Maria. I was able to do some online professional. Especially in Germany, I think. 23 She had the job of I. Miami, right. Matter of fact, I do. Sure. Yeah. You know, when I was down there. And I didn't know from the ladies that I got. Channel 11 first. You know, they gave me the old you know well you know, centuries resume who think about a bottle of wine. The next day I had the interview with 13. Jeff Shiffman was the program and they put together this whole blitz this. Newsweek and billboards and. It worked. I have it. Okay. How's Marcello's working out? He's done.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851#t=595.57,738.95"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851/transcript/71669/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Good looking guy and classy guy and. But going on Monday they they demoted or two that was a bit early morning news thing and then gave her that show with Richard share and boy and I think by all of us. As it talked about, you know, force and literature. I cannot believe he is where he is. I mean, he did it because she was there all by herself for the whole hour. And it was it was very difficult. And so future is ensured. She will make it because Richard worked with her. I mean, I don't know how to work it's operation. Only and is ensured after he leaves. After she leaves him, but not necessarily with him. I mean, is there much talk about Sally any don't even you know, syndrome can. First of all, Maggie. You're going to hold on. What? Get out of here. And the days of Don Ross. And what was the other guy's name? I went to San Francisco. Look at the big push and push. But let me show you this. Well, I mean, the way I think about it, I remember and I noticed. And that's when we told you how old we are. But look at this. Here we go. He's holding something. Him. You know that. That's more recent. Okay. But this one to me. There's more to this. My goodness. All this stuff is. On our wall. This one, I think, Is this one or is it from this series of pictures? She has it on her wall request. Wow. De Grandi photographed in Rome. When you don't like the way you the. Sometimes I do. Sometimes I don't. I take to mean something different. She's a model. And then she's like. But I don't have any.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851#t=740.43,897.84"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851/transcript/71669/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"See me 100 times. And for some reason, one day I don't know if the light was shining on me. This one day I dressed up and he was like, Hey, wait a minute. I think I may want to go out and know you see me right now. And it turned. They asked me to be the boss. We got nominated for an Emmy for that. Didn't win, but we got nominated. I didn't even hit the big Republican Party. And I guess it's not big, comparatively speaking. Wasn't big like Angela Davis. I mean, just to let you be around that one is compelling. This one was nice. And she won the. I remember it short. You remember Jerry Turner? Yeah. Okay. No. So I want to watch your feet. Watch the cord. Come on, on, come on. The rest of you, at the door. Let's go. Can I do it now? I quit. I quit so I could be a dancer. I'm primarily a sap. Teach dancing apart from only teaching from here to show me. Right. She's one of my dancers. I'm older, but I like. I wish you could. Okay. Yeah, Yeah. Good. We almost got everybody. Come on down, Eric, Get your shoes and socks off quickly. Let's go. Yeah, well, but look, 26, 21. I tell you what, I'll tell everybody about it once they're all here. But right now, we're just doing like we do with our normal class. That's what time it comes on. But I'll tell everybody when you come on down, 1315, sitting up straight. Come on, counselors, Find your way around someone. One side, someone, the other someone this side. Not together. What is it? We'll talk about it in a minute. Let's get together first. Finger and thumb together and each hand sitting really strong.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851#t=898.11,1008.3"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851/transcript/71669/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Take it out of your mouth. Okay. Sitting up straight back is so tall. Deep breath through the nose and begin with me. Clearly blue. So I have a Canadian number, my boy. So I. Via the internet. Mama Sora sua suria ya e da mama boo boo yah sua sua. Prada, but they know my deep breath. One more detour sitting up straight and repeat after me. You've got to think something good. You've got to think something. You've got to say something good. You have got to say something. You've got to do something good. You've got to do something. Because if you think something good, if you think something, then you can say something good. You can say something, then you will do something good and you will do something. You've got to think, say, do something good. Didn't say good things. Say do something good thing. Say something good. Think. Say do something good. Hey, thank you. Then we'll have p p. Power. Power p. P. Power. Power p. C power. How? Power in the high power. In fact, Power in the brain. Power. The brain power in the town. How much power in the whole power in the brain. Power in brain power. In the town. How do you think? Think. Think, think, think. I just think something good. She's got to say something. She's got to do something. She's got to get something right out. May think something good to say. Something good. Everybody says something good. Everybody do something good. Everybody do something good. Everybody thinks they do something good. Thanks. So do something good. Thank. Say something good. Hey, see this? I think. You think they'll be happy. Power? Yes. They power these 3000 power in the heart. Power in the power in the brain.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851#t=1008.78,1174.61"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/136839/file/253851/transcript/71669/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Power. The brain. Power on the tone. Power or in the heart. And higher power. And the brain power. Right from the beginning. Nice and loud. I just have. Okay. All right, Eric, sitting up nice and strangely nice. Sebastian Delaney and. Have a go right now. Good to be here with you for every. Gossett. Okay. 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