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Podcast: The Institute of Black Imagination.
Episode: E25. Slashing Through Obstacles with Olympian Daryl Homer.
Description: Today’s episode is with fencer and three-time Olympian, Daryl Homer.Hailing from the U.s. virgin islands, Daryl, along with his mother and sister relocated to the Gun Hill section of the Bronx when he was five. His interest in fencing began at a early age, after encountering the word “Fencing”” in a pictorial dictionary that his mother gave him. Inspired, he begged his mother to begin lessons, but it wasn’t’ until a chance encounter with an advertisement featuring two black fencers did Daryl’s Mother finally cave in to her son’s growing obsession.And so, at the ripe o...