
Breaking Generational Poverty: Mill Village to Doctorate - Donald Williams
In this episode of FailCraft,educator, former Department of Defense education research analyst, andco-author of Born of Nothing, Dr. Donald Williams, joins Ezekiel toshare how he broke out of a Southern mill village to rewrite his family'sgenerational trajectory. Raised in an extended family of cotton mill workersknown derisively as "lintheads," Donald's environment expected youngpeople to leave school early for factory work or the military. Donald becamethe first in his family to attend college—arriving with homemade clothes and adenim duffel bag—and ultimately earned three degrees from…
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