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.
WAYS TO SUBSCRIBE
Episodes
S2 Ep3: Interview with Sonja D Williams, professor in the Howard University Department of Media, Journalism and Film
S2 Ep2: Ruth Blue Turnquest, “The Angel of Federal Street”
S2 Ep1: Mary McLeod Bethune, One out of Seventeen
Season 2 Trailer
S1 Ep24: Carter G. Woodson, Recorder of History
