Destination Freedom Black Radio Days
ABOUT
A live radio show picks up where the first nationwide African-American radio drama, produced in Chicago by Richard Durham more than sixty years ago, left off. The show walked a daring line between reform and revolution, and was shut down by its network in 1950, as McCarthyism and anti-communism tightened its grip on American broadcasting.
As well as drawing on the archive of Destination Freedom (now branded Black Radio Days classic) this program illuminates a largely unknown, but important chapter in the history of human rights and tells how radio played its part from the very beginning. That boundary-breaking program, Destination Freedom, dramatized the lives of great figures in African-American and other people of color past and present, continues in its spirit with all-new scripts.
Produced by donnie l. betts.
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Episodes
S3 Ep 1 The Tale of Stackalee
S2 Ep 22 The Ballad of Satchel Paige
S2 Ep21 Stono: An Audio Ritual
S2 EP20 Of Blood and The Boogie: The Story of Albert Ammons featuring Oscar Brown Jr.
S2 EP19 A Conversation with the writers of Give Me Liberty: A Freeman’s Story, John and Sydney Futrell
S2 EP18 – The Eclectic – Interview with Colorado 2021 Teacher of The Year Gerardo Munzo
