Reflections of an Everyday Observer Podcast

<p>It’s amazing how some people leave an impact on you even after a single meeting. His name was Mr. Alvin Steppes, and he was 71 years old when I sat down with him to listen to his story. A story about something that happened in his life. Something painful enough for him to still wake up in tears many years later. Tears that seemed to be welling up in his eyes even as we spoke. Those eyes, with that familiar bluish ring around a dark brown iris. The same ring that many Black elders in the Deep South seemed to...