Destination Freedom Black Radio Days
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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 EP15 Give Me Liberty: A Freeman’s Story part 3
S2 EP14 Give Me Liberty: A Freeman’s Story part 2
S2 Ep13 Give Me Liberty A Freeman’s Story part 1
S2 Ep12 The Eclectic – Interview with Idris Goodwin, a playwright, director, break beat poet and educator
S2 Ep11 The Eclectic – Interview with The Honorable Judge Gary Jackson
S2 Ep10 The Eclectic – Interview with Harold Field
