A live audio drama that 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 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. Part of the Broadway Podcast Network
https://broadwaypodcastnetwork.com/podcast/destination-freedom-black-radio-days/
episode 8: Interview with Sonia Nazario in support of Enrique's Journey
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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