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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…
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Extended interviews turn personal testimony into an oral record of Black education, law, civic life and historical violence.
Donnie L. Betts uses extended interviews to connect public history with the people who have carried it. Conversations with Colorado teacher Gerardo Munez and retired judge Gary Jackson move through education, self-knowledge, Black legal history and civic work, with Betts drawing…
One bridge in Glendora can reroute your thoughts from Emmett Till to who controls the vote today.
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A grave, steady account that lets Richard Huntley's witness carry the episode.
Richard Huntley's account keeps the episode grounded in lived memory. It covers the boys at Dozier with plain force: beatings, forced labor, fear, and the small acts of protection they managed for one another.
An educator-led conversation about identity, history, and what classrooms can make possible.
Donnie Betts keeps the conversation centered on a steady idea: teaching, history, and self-knowledge belong in the same room. Geraldo Munez, Colorado's 2021 Teacher of the Year, comes across as someone thinking carefully about memory, naming, heritage, and how students locate…
A steady portrait of a lawyer whose work reached courts, city hall, and Denver landmarks.
The Eclectic presents Judge Gary Jackson as a notable figure in Black legal history in Colorado, with one career carrying a wide civic record.
A careful interview where place, memory, and unfinished justice stay in view.
Destination Freedom Black Radio Days treats this conversation with Glendora mayor Johnny B. Thomas like a local history lesson that still carries moral weight.
Broadway criticism with sharp theater-kid instincts.
Actors on craft, survival, and the long road.
Richard Huntley keeps bearing witness.
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Host Donnie L.
A scripted audio drama about a young girl named Cece who may be experiencing grooming by an older man named TJ.
This episode features an experimental audio drama about climate change and nature, adapted from poems, as part of a series highlighting Black stories and voices.
Geraldo Munez begins with history.
An interview with Idris Goodwin, director of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, discussing his background and career.
Being the only Black person in the room.
Glendora, Mississippi sits at the center of this conversation.
An interview with Deborah Watts, co-founder of the Emmett Till Legacy Foundation, discussing the legacy of Emmett Till and the ongoing fight for justice.