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Destination Freedom Black Radio Days

Destination Freedom Black Radio Days presents highy produced orginal Audio Dramas and interviews with people who get stuff done. Produced and directed by award winner filmaker and radio host donnie l. betts. Co produced by audio wiz Maurice (aka Reese) Smith.
Featured guests, Lynn Nottage, Sharon Washington, Charles Wright, Allison Semmes, Idris Goodwin, Marla and Angela Gibbs to name a few.
Audio Dramas, A letter from Heaven to America from Emmett Till, The Voice of The Spirit is Clear
Destination Freedom (now branded Destination Freedom Black Radio Days, 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. This series honors and expands on that theme of the orginioal series from Richard Durham.

Latest Episodes:

S2 Ep4 The Cleaning Ladies and Bound by Blood Dec 01, 2021

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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. Martin Luther King’s assassination. These audio dramas will feature Ghandia Johnson, Michaela “Mikki” Murray and Latifah Johnson. They are produced and directed by donnie l. betts.

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Season 2 Launch Promo Dec 01, 2021

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This is a promo for the launch of Season 2 of Destination Freedom Black Radio Days.

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S2 Ep3 Interview with Sonja D Williams, professor in the Howard University Department of Media, Journalism and Film May 17, 2021

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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 International’s Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was, NPR’s Making the Music, NPR and Radio Smithsonian’s Wade in the Water: African American Sacred Music Traditions. We discuss her book Word Warrior The Life of Richard Dunham,creator of the original Destination Freedom.

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S2 Ep2 Ruth Blue Turnquest, “The Angel of Federal Street" Apr 05, 2021

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“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 backed up against the railroad tracks - a treeless avenue with rows of run-down houses and one ancient grade school. But one factor lifts this district above the others - it is the living legend of the “Angel of Federal Street” - of that ancient grade school’s assistant principal, Ruth Blue Turnquest.

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S2 Ep1 Mary McLeod Bethune, One out of Seventeen Mar 25, 2021

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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 the National Association for Colored Women and the National Youth Administration's Negro Division. Founded: Bethune-Cookman University, UNCF, National Council of Negro Women, Southern Conference for Human Welfare.

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Season 2 Trailer Mar 19, 2021

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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 and revolution and was shut down by its network in 1950, as McCarthyism and anti-communism tightened its grip on American broadcasting. Using new scripts as well as drawing on archives, Destination Freedom Black Radio Days 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 Black Radio Days, dramatized the lives of great figures in African-American and other people of color past and present.

Follow @nocreditsproductions on Facebook and Instagram, and @donniebetts on Twitter. #blackradiodays #socialjustice #destinationfreedomblackradiodays #donniebetts

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S1 Ep24 Carter G. Woodson, Recorder of History Mar 03, 2021

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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 the celebration of "Negro History Week," the precursor of Black History Month.

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S1 Ep23 The Little Rock Nine Feb 21, 2021

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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 Melba Pattillo Beals.

However, these brave Nine and their families endured the unrelenting rage of the majority of white people in Little Rock, Arkansas to break down the segregated wall of Central High School. We begin with thoughts from Carlotta Walls LaNier.

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S1 Ep 22 Interview/Conversation with Anthony P. Young PhD Jan 27, 2021

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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 is the president of the Denver Rocky Mountain Association of Black Psychologists.

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S1 Ep21 Freedom Riders Jan 11, 2021

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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 Riders” examines the 1961 and earlier Freedom Rides from many perspectives -especially from the many women who were on the front lines, that of the Riders themselves, the Kennedy administration, and the international community.

Featuring Carlton Bacon, Leonard Barrett, Jada Dixon, Kurt Soderson, Candy Brown, Kris Angela Washington, Itha Gabriel on Foley. Special guest James Lawson, Terry Sutherland, riders from the summer of 1961, plus Dr. Vincent Harding. They will join the audience for a community dialogue on race and other issues that face our nation, plus share the firsthand account of the rides. Featuring singers from ‘Southern Journey’ performing songs from the Southern Freedom Movement.

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