Black History Month

Black Korean War veteran Joe Lewis stood up to a racist bus driver in the Jim Crow South when he was working at Keesler Air Force Base in the 50s in Biloxi, Mississippi.

HUES believes by including more women of color into scientific research, the medical community will develop a greater cultural sensitivity.

On Saturday, Feb. 10, WCSU General Manager Charles Fox will deliver a performance tracing his family legacy from Africa to a West Virginia slave plantation and finally to his birth home of Maryland.

A Dayton-based company, Shop Black Biz, has launched a 28-day campaign to support Black-owned businesses in the Miami Valley.

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Jordan Anderson was a freed slave living in Dayton, OH with his family after the Civil War. He was owned by a man named PH Anderson in Big Spring, Tennessee. After receiving a letter from his former slave master asking him to return, Anderson responded with a letter of his own. WYSO producer Basim Blunt talks to Dayton historian Dr. Larry Crowe about the famous Jordan Anderson letter.

This week, choirs in Southwest Ohio that sing for social justice will come together to celebrate Dr. Ysaye Barnwell.

The African American Burial Grounds Preservation Act will funnel money to local communities to restore Black burial sites.

WYSO’s Jerry Kenney speaks with a staff member of the Greene County Public Library about the library's philosophy on youth programming and an upcoming event with Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi that combines art and social justice.

On Tuesday, The Dayton Metro Library kicked off Black History Month with an interactive exhibition put together by The Gem City Selfie Museum.

A conversation with Omope Cater Daboiku about The Association for the Study of African American Life and History

Senior producer Basim Blunt of the Eichelberger Center for Community Voices introduces us to Larry Crowe, an oral historian, fine artist and community activist from Dayton. Mr. Crowe has interviewed more than 15 hundred African Americans for the HistoryMakers, an oral history project collecting stories from around the world.