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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:

S1 Ep9 The Knock Kneed Man: “The Story of Crispus Attucks Freedom Fighter" Jun 18, 2020

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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.

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S1 Ep8 Interview with Sonia Nazario in support of Enrique's Journey May 20, 2020

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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 forces him to cross rapid rivers and cling to the tops of freight trains as he travels to the United States in search of a better life for him and his family.

Support for Destination Freedom is provided by Bonfils Stanton Foundation, The Eulipions Fund of The Denver Foundation, and Arts in Society.

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S1 Ep7 Enrique's Journey part 4 of 4 May 05, 2020

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“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 unimaginable peril and navigates a hostile world filled with thugs, bandits, and corrupt cops. His dangerous journey forces him to cross rapid rivers and cling to the tops of freight trains as he travels to the United States in search of a better life for him and his family.

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S1 Ep6 Enrique's Journey part 3 of 4 Apr 08, 2020

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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 unimaginable peril and navigates a hostile world filled with thugs, bandits, and corrupt cops. His dangerous journey forces him to cross rapid rivers and cling to the tops of freight trains as he travels to the United States in search of a better life for him and his family.

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S1 Ep5 Enrique's Journey part 2 of 4 Apr 02, 2020

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“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 unimaginable peril and navigates a hostile world filled with thugs, bandits, and corrupt cops. His dangerous journey forces him to cross rapid rivers and cling to the tops of freight trains as he travels to the United States in search of a better life for him and his family.

Musical guest Los Mocohetes.

In Spanish and English.

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S1 Ep4 Enrique's Journey part 1 of 4 Mar 25, 2020

Show notes

“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 unimaginable peril and navigates a hostile world filled with thugs, bandits, and corrupt cops. His dangerous journey forces him to cross rapid rivers and cling to the tops of freight trains as he travels to the United States in search of a better life for him and his family.

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S1 Ep3 The Tale of The Bullet Mar 11, 2020

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“The Tale of The Bullet” tells the story of America’s obsession with guns from the bullet’s perspective. According to the bullet, “We do all the work and the gun gets all the love”. This podcast features Prince Po of the hip hop duo Organized Konfusion, whose song "Stray Bullet" addressed some of that violence. Plus, vocal artist Such, whose song, "Wakeup Call," is dedicated to high school shooting victim Claire Davis. Our conversation, which includes activists and families who have been impacted by gun violence, immediately follows "The Tale of The Bullet." It will feature, among others, Rep Tom Sullivan, whose son Alex was killed in the Aurora Colorado Theatre shooting.

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S1 Ep2 The Dark Legend of Detroit Blue Mar 04, 2020

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“The Dark Legend of Detroit Blue” written by Hugo Sayles with musical guest Lionel Young.

It was nineteen hundred, and thirty-three in Detroit, Michigan. Legends can be born, even in lowly places. Evil needs, create evil intentions This here is the story of a dark soul.

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S1 Ep1 Black With A Capital B Feb 16, 2020

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Destination Freedom Presents BLACK with a Capital B. by Lamaria Aminah. After one more young black man dies at the hands of police, a community is shaken. A conversation evolves between two mothers at the vigil – one white and one black. The cast includes Such as Black, Devra Keyes as white, Kerrie KJ Joy, and Andrew J. Betts. Listen to a community discussion led by donnie l. betts and musical guest Monique Brooks Roberts.

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