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Before You Go: Join Us for News
Before You Go - January 24, 2023 02:15 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWe've got exciting news coming up--which may explain why Before You Go will be in Memphis a number of times to set up for Season 4. Sign up for our Before You Go newsletter and find out!! Here's the link: https://forms.gle/VQRAmVRdrefDmFjo7 Thanks, BYG Fam!
Before You Go: Motor City Charm
Before You Go - October 07, 2022 03:47 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBetty Chavis spent years as a star recruiter for Michigan Technological University. If young people of color were to find their way far North to Houghton, MI, they needed someone to trust. Michigan Tech turned to Ms. Chavis, a Detroit native who grew up exploring all of her curiosities. An earl...
Before You Go: Undying Love Devotion and Respect
Before You Go - September 24, 2022 20:39 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhen Ajuma Muhammad was approached with a four-year old Black boy terrorizing the classroom, he relied on his years of practice and observations from his world travels to address the client's concerns. As we continue to perpetuate a climate where stress and distress affect the life expectancy ...
Before You Go: The Ballot The Bullet The Incarcerated Seniors
Before You Go - September 24, 2022 20:16 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAudiences tune in to Before You Go for first-hand accounts of the lives of our seniors. What about those of a certain age behind bars? Is death-by-incarceration being discussed enough in mainstream conversation? Formerly incarcerated Yusef Jones is currently out on parole after being sentenced t...
Before You Go: The South Bend Stop on The Underground Railroad
Before You Go - August 29, 2022 15:16 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsCareer educator and Michiana griot Brother Sage and wife Charlotte Pfeifer Gillam, a community advocate, activist and pioneering politician share a loving approach to African American history. Community is everything to this South Bend, Indiana couple who hail from various locations prior to th...
Before You Go: Fannie Lou Hamer Takes Center Stage
Before You Go - August 22, 2022 05:04 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsDiana Solomon-Glover answered the call from her friend and musical collaborator Chandler Carter to pursue a commission by the Santa Fe Opera for new works. They presented the story of Fannie Lou Hamer as an opera, won the commission and the upcoming debut is sure to be a theatrical experience ...
Before You Go: Canada Emancipation Day
Before You Go - August 22, 2022 04:59 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAugust 1 in Canada is cause for a joyous occasion: Emancipation Day! Before You Go was honored to hear all about the journey to commemorating the freeing of enslaved people from Rosemary Sadlier OOnt (Order of Ontario), a champion of African Canadian education for Canadian residents. Just like ...
Before You Go: Five Stars for a Two Star Major General
Before You Go - July 22, 2022 21:48 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhen this two star major general shared details of his military and Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) experience with our show, we knew it would be special. For the hosts there was also a jaw-dropping moment (or two) due to Major General Gravett's courage, agility, incredible heart and hum...
Before You Go: Return To Buffalo
Before You Go - July 18, 2022 18:12 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBefore You Go first interviewed Mother Doyle days after the terrorist attack where an 18 year-old white supremacist dressed in tactical gear fatally wounded 10 people in his mission to kill all the Black people he could. Mother Doyle does her usual grocery run on Saturdays at 2pm. She would have...
Before You Go: Seniors on Skid Row
Before You Go - July 04, 2022 20:15 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsRev. Andy Bales has fought to end homelessness in Los Angeles County for more than three decades. His tales of life on the streets of Skid Row illustrate the emergency situation in which Los Angeles has found itself. An average of 5.5 people die daily in LA County when they are unhoused. Bale...
Before You Go: Juneteenth With Artist Richard C Press Sr
Before You Go - June 24, 2022 04:43 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhen searching Richard Press Online Gallery be prepared to experience a powerful variety of an artist's rendition of humanity on canvas. Mr. Press is a renowned artist located in Hampton, VA. This lifelong painter, muralist and educator is busier than ever with his contributions to community. ...
Before You Go: On The Waterfront
Before You Go - June 20, 2022 09:45 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsAt the time of this recording, the Port of Los Angeles has 45,000 jobs available. Working for the Port means being in the company of a business that pulls in $1.5 billion per day. Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh have an eye-opening chat with Joe Gatlin about the Port and the close-knit...
Before You Go: A Purple Heart On A Mission
Before You Go - June 18, 2022 14:13 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsRobert Branscomb is a veteran, pilot and for a number of years--and still today in his 80's--a generous, experienced financial advisor with a specialty in insurance offerings. How do you make financial planning purposeful and profitable? And how do you avoid embarrassing the family when it comes...
Before You Go: Terror Comes To Buffalo
Before You Go - May 25, 2022 04:15 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThis episode follows days after a tragic event in the United States--in Buffalo known as the City of Good Neighbors. Eva M. Doyle writes her column of 44 years "Eye On History" for the nearly 100-year-old Black newspaper The Buffalo Criterion. Ms. Doyle--known as Mother Doyle--happened to chang...
Before You Go: The War The Union And A Good Woman
Before You Go - May 23, 2022 02:58 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIsaac Turner, Jr. was introduced to our program Before You Go by KBLA Talk 1580 host Najah Roberts. This 98-year-old war veteran appears with daughter Julia Hardman and recalls war stories from five invasions. Mr. Turner entered the Navy as a cook under Generals Eisenhower, MacArthur and Nimitz ...
Before You Go: Broadcast News The Inside Report
Before You Go - May 13, 2022 05:35 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhen news personalities such as Ted Koppel and Walter Cronkite delivered news from overseas, broadcast audiences probably were not aware of who was manning/woman-ing the foreign desks of network newsrooms at the Big Three: ABC, CBS and NBC. Eric V. Tait, Jr. and Stephen C. Miller give the insid...
Before You Go: Lessons in the LAUSD
Before You Go - May 05, 2022 00:17 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsThe LAUSD has been blessed with numerous dedicated educators, one of whom is Caldwell Williams. Mr. Williams was referred to Before You Go hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh by a listener and fellow veteran friend of his, Farron Dozier, who considers Mr. Williams a mentor. We quickly lea...
Before You Go: Adger Cowans Photographing Us
Before You Go - April 28, 2022 04:10 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsWhen Nicole Franklin first met Adger Cowans years ago in New York City she knew other being an extremely talented artist and photographer, he has a welcoming spirit that has put thousands of his subjects through the years at ease. With Adger on the mic, both Bryant and Nicole have a wonderful ti...
Before You Go: About That Military Life
Before You Go - April 15, 2022 03:05 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsEarly in life things seem to have come easy to military veteran Frank Coats. When drafted to the front lines of the Korean War, Coats was promoted to sergeant within a year. But he quickly found out racism often puts African Americans in harm's way. Staying employed and living life responsibly h...
Before You Go: Carmen de Lavallade From East LA to Broadway
Before You Go - April 05, 2022 18:13 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsCarmen de Lavallade grew up in a Mexican neighborhood in East Los Angeles and started dancing as a teenager. It was her time with Lester Horton that inspired her teaching and choreography career. She was so inspired she invited her junior high school friend Alvin Ailey, to study dance with Hort...
Before You Go: Live in LA Its Our Oscars Show!
Before You Go - April 05, 2022 01:16 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsStanley Nelson appears as a guest on Before You Go during a career milestone: Oscar nominee. After decades of directing historical documentaries illuminating African American history through compelling interviews and a library of rare footage, Nelson, an award-winning filmmaker, made it to the ...
Before You Go: A Legacy Close To Home
Before You Go - March 21, 2022 04:12 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn 1970, Black Theatre Troupe founder Helen K. Mason launched the oldest Black theatre organization in the Southwest Region of the United States while in Phoenix, AZ. She was 60 years old at the time and ready for retirement, but the neighborhood children told her performing plays was what they ...
Before You Go: Cheers Tears and that Son of a $*#&! Redd Foxx
Before You Go - March 18, 2022 03:31 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsFormer Mayor Lelia Foley-Davis made history with her election to office while a single mother of five on welfare. Her "common sense" degree enabled her leadership skills to help put Taft, OK on the map and made the three Presidents she personally met during her lifetime pay attention. Yet even...
Before You Go: Poetry Praise and Peace
Before You Go - March 12, 2022 14:35 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsRaheemah Raheem, possibly the second most famous resident of Turner Station, Maryland next to Henrietta Lacks, shares her poetry and a revealing story about a life-changing choice she had to make as a 17-year-old mother who lived in New York City at the time. Her daughter Trudy Reed joins hosts ...
Before You Go: A Rancher An Educator and A Gentleman
Before You Go - March 02, 2022 15:09 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsIn this postcard from Oklahoma, we meet Cedric Johnson, the first African American to represent the State of Oklahoma at a Democratic National Convention. Since this was 2016, Mr. Johnson, who had been a Republican earlier in life, was well into his 80s when he was asked to take on this role. A...
Before You Go: A Rewind In Time with Those Who Walked With King
Before You Go - February 25, 2022 23:30 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBefore You Go hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh take A Rewind In Time with more of Bryant's treasured archives--this time while on assignment with WVON in Chicago. At the feet of the 30ft Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial statue on display in Washington DC, Bryant's microphone captured th...
Before You Go: A Rewind In Time with Rev Fred Shuttlesworth
Before You Go - February 14, 2022 22:09 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHost Bryant Monteilh takes listeners for A Rewind In Time with this candid 2004 interview of Southern Christian Leadership co-founder Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth. In the 1950s and 60s in Birmingham, Alabama, an endorsement from Shuttlesworth's would earn the public's trust when activists came ...
Before You Go: A Rewind In Time with Dr Joseph Lowery
Before You Go - February 11, 2022 05:10 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsHuntsville Alabama's own Dr. Joseph Lowery sat down with Bryant Monteilh back in 2004 to talk about growing up with a profiling experience that could have tragically changed the course of his life, run ins with the Klan, his encounters with George Wallace and how Dr. Lowery, a reverend, managed...
Before You Go: Music Memories and The Smiths
Before You Go - February 03, 2022 02:22 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsBefore You Go co-host Nicole Franklin has the honor of inviting her longtime friend Juanita Smith who shares memories of her composer husband Hale Smith with Bryant Monteilh and the audience. It's a walk through musical history as Hale Smith's work in the genres of classical, jazz and spiritual...
Before You Go: Spot the Signs Seniors and Mental Wellness
Before You Go - January 27, 2022 23:50 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsStaying connected to our seniors and recognizing signs of depression, self-harm, sustained and existing trauma and mental illness is crucial these days, especially while experiencing a global pandemic. Here on Before You Go, we knew it was time to call in an expert. Helena Washington has a Maste...
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