Destination Freedom Black Radio Days

The 2021 season of Destination Freedom Black Radio Days will examine the issues facing communities of color beginning with “The Cleaning Ladies” and “Bound by Blood” by Clinnesha Sibley. “The Cleaning Ladies” takes place in Manhattan on February 21, 1965 in the Audubon Ballroom, the day of Malcolm X’s assassination. “Bound by Blood” takes us to the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN, the night of Dr. M...

This is a promo for the launch of Season 2 of Destination Freedom Black Radio Days. Follow @nocreditsproductions on Facebook and Instagram, and @donniebetts on Twitter. #Blackradiodays #socialjustice #destinationfreedomblackradiodays #donniebetts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sonja D. Williams is a professor in the Howard University Department of Media, Journalism and Film in Washington, DC. She has written and produced numerous documentaries for NPR, PRI, Smithsonian Productions, and local radio stations nationwide. These include the prestigious George Foster Peabody Awards for Significant and Meritorious Achievement for Smithsonian Productions, Public Radio Internati...

“The Angel of Federal Street” tells the story of the great humanitarian of Chicago, Ruth Blue Turnquest. What happens when the Angel Gabriel is calling role of new names of Heavenly angels and the Pearly Gates get stuck? The name of a person still on earth is called and Saint Peter and the rest of the Angels have to get to the bottom of the problem. One section of Chicago’s South Federal Street is...

Mary Jane McLeod Bethune was one out of 17 children. She was an American educator, stateswoman, philanthropist, humanitarian, womanist, and civil rights activist. Bethune founded the National Council for Negro Women in 1935, established the organization's flagship journal Aframerican Women's Journal, and resided as president or leader for a myriad African American women's organizations including t...

Audio Drama at its best. The 2021 season of Destination Freedom Black Radio Days will examine the issues facing communities of color - exploring police shooting, immigration, health disparities, and gender bias. The podcast continues where the first nationwide Black radio drama, produced in Chicago by Richard Durham more than sixty years ago, left off. The show walked a daring line between reform...

Carter Godwin Woodson was an American historian, author, journalist, and the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. He was one of the first scholars to study the history of the African diaspora, including African-American history. A founder of The Journal of Negro History in 1916, Woodson was called the "father of black history". In February 1926 he launched...

On Sept. 25, 1957, the common goal for the nine students entering Central High School was to receive the same educational opportunities afforded white people The majority of the country only knows the name Little Rock Nine, not Ernest Green, Elizabeth Eckford, Jefferson Thomas, Dr. Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls Lanier, Minnijean Brown Trickey, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed-Wair, and Me...

This episode features Dr. Anthony Young, who has been practicing mental health in Colorado for over forty years. He has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Denver. He has taught Psychology courses for twenty-six years at the University of Colorado. In the past, Dr. Young has partnered with the Department of Corrections and the Mental Health Institute in Pueblo. Currently, he...

From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans laid their lives—many endured savage beatings and imprisonment—for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws, the Freedom Riders’ belief in non-violent activism was tested as mob violence and bitter racism greeted them along the way. “Freedom Ride...

On this episode, we hear an interview with Dr. Terri Richardson, MD. Dr. Richardson received her medical degree from the Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut. She worked as an internist for 17 years at the Eastside Health Center in Denver, a clinic serving the community, before joining Kaiser Permanente. We discuss Covid-19 issues the so-called long haulers of the virus. Learn more ab...

On this episode, we hear my interview with Black micro-business owner Rise Jones. After a two-year life-threatening battle with a rare form of leukemia blood cancer (CMML) which required chemotherapy, a bone marrow transplant, and two years for recovery, there is a story to be told. Leukemia is a big part Rise Jones story, but not the whole story. At the end of her recovery period, her husband ask...

2020 is a contentious election year in America filled with lies, violence, voter suppression, and intimation. That’s nothing new in the history of our country. Let’s look at the year 1875. In this episode, we hear The Story of Charles Caldwell, the senator who had been a slave. No issue concerned black Representatives more than the civil rights bill of 1875, but attacks and intimidation continued....

This episode features Give Me Liberty: A Free Man's Story, a play of historical fiction written by John and Sydney Futrell. The piece was inspired by real events, as described in genealogy documents preserved by John's mother. As the story goes, John's great, great, great, great grandfather was Patrick Henry. The Patrick Henry whose famous quote "Give Liberty or Give Me Death" inspired some before...

Emmett Till was murdered 65 years ago on August 28, 1955 in Money, Mississippi. At only 14 years old, he was kidnapped, brutally tortured, lynched and killed during a racially motivated hate crime that ultimately helped launch the modern-day civil rights movement. On August 30, 2019, Eli McClain was killed in Aurora, Colorado. The past is not past. The specter of Till’s devastating crime remains e...

Black Radio Days is proud to share with you a series of interviews with health care providers, Covid-19 survivors, and social justice warriors. This episode features social justice and heath care rights warrior, Candice Bailey. We discuss COVID 19, police reform and justice for Elijah McClain Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Black Radio Days is proud to share with you a series of interviews with health care providers, Covid-19 survivors, and social justice warriors. This episode features John Futrell aka Panama Soweto speaking about efforts to rename the Stapleton Community. The Original Stapleton came from Ben Stapleton, a former mayor of Denver and a member of the KKK. One name could be Mosley Park named after his g...

Black Radio Days is proud to share with you a series of interviews with health care providers, Covid-19 survivors, and social justice warriors. This episode features longtime activist Terrance Roberts as he discusses what he is seeing in the community as the Black Lives Matter protests continue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Black Radio Days is proud to share with you a series of interviews with health care providers, Covid-19 survivors, and social justice warriors. This episode features Rev. Terrance Hughes, a pastor who's been a force in his community for years. He is finally home after a long batter with COVID-19. Hughes was released from the Rocky Mountain Regional VA Medical Center after spending nearly seven wee...

Black Radio Days is proud to share a series of interviews with health care providers, Covid-19 survivors, and social justice warriors. First up is an interview with Dr. Shanta Zimmer. Dr. Zimmer is an infectious disease specialist in Aurora, Colorado and Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion at CU Medical School on the Anschutz Campus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adch...

Black Radio Days brings you a broadcast of The Knock Kneed Man “The Story of Crispus Attucks Freedom Fighter" with an introduction by the late great artist-activist Oscar Brown Jr. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Black Radio Days brings you a special podcast, an interview with the author of Enrique’s Journey, Sonia Narazio Enrique’s Journey is a beautiful, sad, and inspiring testimony to the power of love and loneliness. This story is about how Enrique, an immigrant from Honduras, faces unimaginable peril and navigates a hostile world filled with thugs, bandits, and corrupt cops. His dangerous journey forc...

“Enrique’s Journey”, is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Sonia Nazario as adapted by Anthony J. Garcia. Mr. Garcia describes Enrique’s Journey as… “…a beautiful, sad and inspiring testimony to the power of love and loneliness. Although love does not solve everything for Enrique, without it, he cannot survive.” This story is about how Enrique, an immigrant from Honduras, faces unimagina...

Enrique’s Journey part 3 of 4 is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Sonia Nazario adapted by Anthony J. Garcia. Mr. Garcia describes Enrique’s Journey as… “…a beautiful, sad and inspiring testimony to the power of love and loneliness. Although love does not solve everything for Enrique, without it, he cannot survive.” This story is about how Enrique, an immigrant from Honduras, faces uni...

“Enrique’s Journey”, is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Sonia Nazario as adapted by Anthony J. Garcia. Mr. Garcia describes Enrique’s Journey as… “…a beautiful, sad and inspiring testimony to the power of love and loneliness. Although love does not solve everything for Enrique, without it, he cannot survive.” This story is about how Enrique, an immigrant from Honduras, faces unimagina...