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Destination Freedom Black Radio Days

Destination Freedom Black Radio Days

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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 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.Broadway Podcast Network Art Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Marvin Booker Letter from a Denver Jail talk back 5/19/2026

    Marvin Booker Letter from a Denver Jail talk back 5/19/2026
    Jun 17 2026
    Our panel discussion after the audio Drama Marvin Booker Letter from a Denver Jail This Audio drama is the second in our series on the unhoused and will feature the talents of donnie l. betts, Latifah Johnson and John Furtell aka Panama Soweto as Marvin Booker. Our after-show panel will be the Hon. Elias Diggins Denver, Sheriff, Reginald C. Holmes, Pastor, New Covenant Christian Church Alpha and Omega. Carla Coburn. Pastor, Freshwind International Ministries. Mary Tellis, Pastor, Solomon Temple Missionary Baptist Church Terrence (Big T) Hughes and moderator Bro Jeff Fard. Inspiration: by Big T I followed the Marvin Booker Murder and trial for four straight years. Our Church, New Covenant Christian Church supported the family when they were in town, ensuring they had food and other essentials to make their stay comfortable as they traveled a long road for Justice for Marvin. I watched a family continue to support their elderly parents, who were determined to see justice for their son. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Marvin Booker Letter from A Denver Jail by Terrance Hughes directed by donnie l. betts

    Marvin Booker Letter from A Denver Jail by Terrance Hughes directed by donnie l. betts
    Jun 10 2026
    This Audio drama is the second in our series on the unhoused and will feature the talents of donnie l. betts, Latifah Johnson, and John Furtell aka Panama Soweto, as Marvin Booker. Our after-show panel is available in part 2 will be the Hon. Elias Diggins Denver, Sheriff, Reginald C. Holmes, Pastor, New Covenant Christian Church Alpha and Omega. Carla Coburn. Pastor, Freshwind International Ministries. Mary Tellis, Pastor, Solomon Temple Missionary Baptist Church Terrence (Big T) Hughes and moderator Bro Jeff Fard. Inspiration: by Big T I followed the Marvin Booker Murder and trial for four straight years. Our Church, New Covenant Christian Church, supported the family when they were in town, ensuring they had food and other essentials to make their stay comfortable as they traveled a long road for Justice for Marvin. I watched a family continue to support their elderly parents, who were determined to see justice for their son. However, central to it all was a man who was a street preacher like me, who stood up for himself, and they killed him because he only wanted his shoes! His dignity in the face of oppression inspired me to write this play. As his mentor, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was Marvin’s Muse for all those years, the letter from A Birmingham Jail became my muse through the voice and vision of Marvin Louis Booker Street Preacher! Terrence H. Hughes better known as Pastor Big T is the Founding Pastor of Alpha and Omega Ministries and current Co-Pastor of the New Covenant Christian Church Alpha and Omega Ministries. Pastor Hughes is a human rights and social justice advocate. Marvin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    36 mins
  • Conversation With NEA Jazz Master Carmen Lundy and donnie l. betts

    Conversation With NEA Jazz Master Carmen Lundy and donnie l. betts
    May 19 2026
    Carmen Latretta Lundy is an American jazz singer, composer, arranger, and visual artist whose career spans over five decades. People will describe Carmen Lundy as just this American jazz singer, composer, and visual artist. But I just called her an artist because her career spanned so many, so many disciplines. Add to those accolades, activists Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    30 mins
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