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 13: Interview with John Futrell aka Panama Soweto
Black Radio Days is proud to share with you a series of interviews with health care providers, Covid-19 survivors, and social justice warriors.
This episode features John Futrell aka Panama Soweto speaking about efforts to rename the Stapleton Community. The Original Stapleton came from Ben Stapleton, a former mayor of Denver and a member of the KKK. One name could be Mosley Park named after his grandparents, John and Edna Mosley. He comments on the death of Elijah McClain, the 23-year-old man killed by Aurora Police in August 2019., who was murdered while walking Black.
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