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Marvin Booker Letter from a Denver Jail talk back 5/19/2026
Jun 17, 2026
1h 08m 18s
Marvin Booker Letter from A Denver Jail by Terrance Hughes directed by donnie l. betts
Jun 10, 2026
35m 30s
Conversation With NEA Jazz Master Carmen Lundy and donnie l. betts
May 19, 2026
30m 15s
Intersectionality written by Kenya Fashaw and directed by donnie l. betts
May 12, 2026
56m 49s
Conversation two with author Richard Huntley a survivor of Dozier School for Boys
Feb 3, 2026
30m 42s
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| 6/17/26 |  Marvin Booker Letter from a Denver Jail talk back 5/19/2026 | 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 | 1h 08m 18s | ||||||
| 6/10/26 |  Marvin Booker Letter from A Denver Jail by Terrance Hughes directed by donnie l. betts✨ | unhousedjustice+3 | Terrance Hughesdonnie l. betts+2 | New Covenant Christian ChurchFreshwind International Ministries+3 | — | Marvin Bookerjustice+3 | — | 35m 30s | |
| 5/19/26 |  Conversation With NEA Jazz Master Carmen Lundy and donnie l. betts✨ | jazzmusic+3 | Carmen Latretta Lundydonnie l. betts | No Credits Productions, LLC | — | Carmen Lundyjazz singer+3 | — | 30m 15s | |
| 5/12/26 |  Intersectionality written by Kenya Fashaw and directed by donnie l. betts✨ | intersectionalitybias+4 | Zarah LevyAdrienne Martin Fullwood+3 | — | — | audio dramajail cell+5 | — | 56m 49s | |
| 2/3/26 |  Conversation two with author Richard Huntley a survivor of Dozier School for Boys✨ | survivor storiesreform schools+3 | Richard Huntley | Dark Days of Horror at Dozier Rapes, Murders, Beatings, and SlaveryNickel Boys | FloridaDozier School for Boys | Dozier School for BoysRichard Huntley+5 | — | 30m 42s | |
| 1/22/26 |  A conversation with author Richard Huntly✨ | reform schoolpersonal story+3 | Richard Huntley | Dark Days of Horror at Dozier Rapes, Murders, Beatings, and SlaveryNickel Boys | Florida | Dozierreform school+5 | — | 30m 08s | |
| 7/16/25 |  Interview with Devon Goffman star Some Like Hot Tour✨ | Broadwaymusical theater+4 | Devon Goffman | Destination Freedom: Black Radio DaysNo Credits Productions, LLC+3 | — | Devon GoffmanSome Like It Hot+5 | — | 20m 46s | |
| 10/23/24 | S3 EP24 Seven Coffins✨ | abusetrafficking+3 | — | No Credits Productions, LLC | — | Seven Coffinsabuse+4 | — | 33m 31s | |
| 10/2/24 | S3 Ep23 Round Solstice✨ | climate changenature+3 | Nadiya Jackson | — | — | climate changenature+3 | — | 13m 58s | |
| 9/4/24 |  S3 Ep22 The Voice of The Spirit is Clear✨ | homelessnessspirituality+3 | — | — | — | Lashawn Hugheshomeless+3 | — | 38m 33s | |
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| 4/24/24 |  S3 Ep21 The Eclectic - Conversation with the Charles Wright✨ | musicinterview+3 | Charles Wright | Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band | Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States | Charles Wrightmusic career+3 | — | 31m 25s | |
| 4/10/24 |  S3 Ep20 The Eclectic - Conversation with Attorney General of Minnesota Keith Ellison | Join me for my conversation with AG Keith Ellison. We hear his thoughts on what can be done the break the wheel of use of force by police against our communities. With this powerful and intimate trial diary, Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison asks the key question: How do we break the wheel of police violence and finally make it stop? The murder of George Floyd sparked global outrage. At the center of the conflict and the controversy, Keith Ellison grappled with the means of bringing justice for Floyd and his family. Now, in this riveting account of the Derek Chauvin trial, Ellison takes the reader down the path his prosecutors took, offering different breakthroughs and revelations for a defining, generational moment of racial reckoning and social justice understanding. Each chapter of BREAK THE WHEEL goes spoke to spoke along the wheel of the system as Ellison examines the roles of prosecutors, defendants, heads of police unions, judges, activists, legislators, politicians, and media figures, each in his attempt to end this chain of violence and replace it with empathy and shared insight. Ellison’s analysis of George Floyd’s life and the rich trial context he provides demonstrates that, while it may seem like an unattainable goal, lasting change and justice can be achieved. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 30m 25s | ||||||
| 1/31/24 |  S3 Ep19 The Eclectic - Conversation with author Patti Hartigan of A Life August Wilson | Our guest is author and award-winning journalist Patti Hartigan. Her recent book August Wilson A Life is receiving praise from literary circles, theatre circles, and academic circles alike. I am joined in conversation with Patti next on Destination Freedom Black Radio Days - The Eclectic. August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". He is best known for a series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle (or The Century Cycle), which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the African-American community in the 20th century. Plays in the series include Fences (1987) and The Piano Lesson (1990), both of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1984) and Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1988). In 2006, Wilson was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. His works delve into the African-American experience as well as examine the human condition. Other themes range from the systemic and historical exploitation of African Americans, race relations, identity, migration, and racial discrimination. Viola Davis said that Wilson's writing "captures our humor, our vulnerabilities, our tragedies, our trauma. And he humanizes us. And he allows us to talk." Since Wilson's death, two of his plays have been adapted into films: Fences (2016) and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). Denzel Washington has shepherded the films and has vowed to continue Wilson's legacy by adapting the rest of his plays into films for a wider audience. Washington said, "The greatest part of what's left of my career is making sure that August is taken care of" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 46m 35s | ||||||
| 1/17/24 |  S3 EP18 Year in Review 2023 | Destination Freedom Black Radio Days Year in Review 2023. Interviews with David Byrne, Lynn Nottage, and others, plus audio dramas. Enjoy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 11m 54s | ||||||
| 12/20/23 |  S3 Ep17 The Eclectic - Conversation with artist Allison Semmes - singer, actor, writer | Our guest is artist Allison Semmes. One of Allison's latest achievements is that she is part of the Barry Manilow/Bruce Sussman musical Harmony. She portrays the artist and activist icon Josephine Baker. Allison Semmes is a multi-genre singer/songwriter and Broadway actress. She studied vocal performance as a coloratura soprano at the University of Illinois Champaign Urbana, then musical theater at New York University where she received her Master's in Music. Broadway & National Tour credits include Motown the Musical (Diana Ross U/S), Book of Mormon (Swing, Nabulungi U/S) & Motown the Musical (Diana Ross), and The Color Purple (Squeak). Other Theatre credits include Little Shop of Horrors (Kennedy Center), A Wonderful World (Miami New Drama), Shout Sister Shout (Seattle Rep), OoBlaDee: Bebop Musical. She has recorded and written with Stevie Wonder (2020), performed with Erykah Badu & BK Philharmonic in Ted Hearne's "You're Causing Quite the Disturbance" at BAM, and Kurt Elling's "The Big Blind", a noir jazz musical with Dee Dee Bridgewater at Jazz at the Lincoln Center Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 22m 03s | ||||||
| 12/6/23 |  S3 EP16 The Eclectic - Conversation with artist Sheryl McCallum - singer, actor, writer | Join us for our conversation with artist Sheryl McCallum. McCallum is a graduate of Denver South High School who found lasting success on Broadway playing several roles in Disney’s The Lion King. Connection is also a recurring theme in how McCallum and David Nehls came to make “Miss Rhythm,” which is based on the 1996 book “Miss Rhythm: The Autobiography of Ruth Brown, Rhythm and Blues Legend” by Brown and Andrew Yule. McCallum and Nehls first met in New York in the 1990s, reconnected in Denver a few years ago doing musical theater, and seized the opportunity that the COVID pandemic afforded them (in that “lemons, meet lemonade” way) to create the show. Since returning from New York City to take care of her mother, Denver native McCallum has been making inroads in the area’s theater scene. In New York, she was in the Broadway cast of “The Lion King” as well as a performer in City Center’s Encores! concert series. In her first Denver show, McCallum played a town elder in the Curious Theatre Company’s production of “Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet,” part of MacArthur Fellow Terrell Alvin McCraney’s trilogy, The Brother/Sister Plays. Since then, McCallum’s appeared in shows at Curious, Cherry Creek Theatre, the Aurora Fox, the Arvada Center, and Miners Alley. It was at that Golden theater — during artistic director Len Matheo’s much-needed Quarantine Cabaret — that McCallum and Nehls test-drove a tribute about the woman who became known as the Queen of R&B. Ruth Brown, After a string of hit songs — “(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean” and “5-10-15 Hours” among them — the Atlantic record label where she switched from ballads to R&B was referred to winkingly as “The House That Ruth Built.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 32m 04s | ||||||
| 10/11/23 |  S3 EP 15 The Eclectic - Rutha Mae Harris, activist and a member of the original Freedom Singers | In the summer of 1961, Rutha Mae Harris was home visiting her family after her first year at Florida A&M University. Protests had been erupting in Albany, her hometown, and Harris had to face a question that many young people involved in the struggle asked themselves – would she go back to school or stay and organize? She knew the need. Harris grew up with strong roots in the community. Her father, Rev. Isaiah Harris, was the founding minister of Mt. Calvary Baptist Church and had been providing literacy classes and encouraging members of his congregation to register to vote since the 1940s. He taught his children to always think that they were as good as anyone else and to never fear any man. Her mother was a schoolteacher and was supportive of the Movement, “She told me that as long as I came back to finish my schooling, it was alright with her.” And so Harris stayed, fueled by the opportunity to fight for her freedom. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 31m 48s | ||||||
| 10/4/23 |  S3 EP14 The Eclectic - Report from the trial of Elijah McClain by donnie l. betts | Producer/Director donnie l. betts first hand report on the trial of Elijah McClain. The officers now on trial — Randy Roedema and Jason Rosenblatt — are charged with manslaughter, criminally negligent reckless homicide and assault, all felonies. They pleaded not guilty. Roedema, a former Marine who is currently suspended without pay, had been with the department for five years before McClain's death. Rosenblatt worked for the agency for two years and was fired in 2020 for making light of other officers' reenactment of the neck hold. The two officers have not talked publicly about McClain's death and it's unknown if they'll take the stand to testify. Their lawyers told jurors that the officers' actions followed police policies and weren't responsible for McClain's death. They've sought to shift any blame to the paramedics who injected the ketamine. Body cameras worn by the officers captured the confrontation and the footage is being used by both sides to bolster their arguments. That's what jurors will have to decide. Rosenblatt initially tried to put McClain in a neck hold but couldn't because of his position, so Woodyard did, authorities said. The maneuver, called a carotid control hold, restricts the flow of blood to a person's brain, rendering them temporarily unconscious. Neck restraints have been banned in many states following the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 11m 07s | ||||||
| 7/26/23 |  S3 EP13 - The Difference | Live from the studios of KGNU in Boulder, Colorado, Destination Freedom Black Radio Days comes to you with The Difference by Peter Trinh. The Difference is a candid dive into racial dynamics and the chasm that grows between the perceived and global majority. Peering into the veiled, uncomfortable, underbelly of neo-supremacist ideology. Produced and directed by donnie l. betts. Stay tuned after the audio dramas for a conversation with playwright Peter Trinh. Featured in The Difference are Latifa Johnson, Peter Trinh, Brian Landis Folkins, Josh Levy and donnie l. betts. Plus a Q and A with college and high school students. Many had questions about culture and identity. Produced by No Credits Productions LLC and donnie l. betts. Listen again at wherever you get your podcasts #BroadwayPodcastNetwork #itunes, #radiopublic, #spotify #amazon, #stitcher or www.nocredits.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 1h 01m 18s | ||||||
| 7/5/23 |  S3 EP12 The Eclectic - Lynn Nottage, two time Pulitzer Prize Winner for Drama, interviewed by donnie l. betts | Our guest is Lynn Nottage. Ms. Nottage has received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice: in 2009 for her play Ruined, and in 2017 for her play Sweat. She is the first and the only woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama two times. Nottage is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship and was included in Time magazine's 2019 list of the 100 Most Influential People. On January 13, 2022 Lynn tweeted that she would have a comedy Clyde’s, and a musical MJ for which she wrote the book on Broadway at the same time. She also has an opera for the play Intimate Apparel. Her work is being produced by 24 different major theatres this season according to American Theatre Magazine. Her play "Clyde's" is the most produced play in 2023/24. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 52m 20s | ||||||
| 6/14/23 |  S3 EP11 The Eclectic - Conversation about Juneteenth with retired Judge Vallera Johnson, marketing rep Danielle Brooks, plus host donnie l. betts, all born on June 19th | June 19th is host donnie l. betts birthday. Born and raised in east Texas he reached out to others that were born on this day and are not from Texas and asked their thoughts on this day - retired Judge Vallera Johnson and marketing rep Danielle Brooks. Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. Deriving its name from combining "June" and "nineteenth", it is celebrated on the anniversary of the order, issued by Major General Gordon Granger on June 19, 1865, proclaiming freedom for slaves in Texas. It is much more than just these two sentences. It means Freedom Day to many Black Americans. No more auction blocks. Working for free. However, Freedom is not free, there is a lot more work to be done in America and the world. Listen in to our conversation. donnie l. betts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 35m 23s | ||||||
| 5/31/23 |  S3 EP10 The Eclectic - Conversation with multi-hyphenated artist Sharon Washington | Join me producer donnie l. betts for my conversation with SHARON WASHINGTON (Co-Book Writer) "New York New York" Tony nominee. A proud Native New Yorker with her family living in Manhattan since 1835, Sharon is celebrating over 30 years as an actor. She is thrilled to continue her collaboration with this incredible creative team who she worked with on The Scottsboro Boys musical—this time as a writer. Sharon made her debut as a playwright with her solo play Feeding the Dragon. Off-Broadway it was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award, Lucille Lortel Award, and won an Audelco. Published by Oberon Books it was also recorded as an Audible Theater Original. She is currently writing a children’s picture book version for Scholastic Books. Sharon is a co-writer/executive producer on a project in development for Disney+. She is a proud member of AEA, SAG-AFTRA, and The Dramatists Guild. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 48m 18s | ||||||
| 4/26/23 |  S3 EP9 Grave Diggers Handicap, The Story of Isaac Murphy | Folks may be familiar with the fine clothes, big hats, and of course the fast horses. But did you know the first 10 winners of the Derby were Black? The first 3 time winner was Issac Murphy. Many consider Murphy the greatest American jockey of all time. By his own account, Murphy won 44% of his races. Racing historians can only verify 34.5% from the era, but it's likely that some of Murphy's races were not documented. Either way, Murphy set a standard that no other jockey has come close to matching. Consider that Eddie Arcaro, recognized as the greatest U.S. jockey of the 20th Century, had a winning percentage of only 22%. Murphy was the first jockey inducted into the Racing Hall of Fame in 1956. Next up on Destination Freedom one of my favorite audio dramas from our series - THE GRAVE DIGGERS HANDICAP, The Story of Isaac Murphy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 34m 21s | ||||||
| 3/22/23 |  S3 EP8 The Eclectic - Conversation with Marla and Angela Gibbs | Marla Gibbs (born Margaret Theresa Bradley; June 14, 1931) is an American actress, singer, comedian, activist, writer, and television producer whose career spans seven decades. Gibbs is known for her role as George Jefferson's maid, Florence Johnston, in the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons (1975–1985), for which she received five nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She is a legend, an icon, and a lovely human being. Angela Gibbs: Writer/ Director/Acting Coach. Currently featured in Not Dead Yet on ABC and Hulu. And she used to rock the screen in Hacks. Her most famous roles include Doris Jackson in Straight Outta Compton and Barbara Cochran in The People v. OJ Simpson. She has also appeared in hit American shows such as Grey’s Anatomy, S.W.A.T, Suits, and NCIS: Los Angeles. He portrayed Randall Pierce mother of the last season of This Is Us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 57m 03s | ||||||
| 3/1/23 |  S3 EP7 I AM, an audio drama written by Kenya Fashaw, produced and directed by donnie l. betts, co-produced, edited, and mixed by Maurice Smith | “I Am” was written by Kenya Fashaw and directed by donnie l. betts. Mimi and Jabari are in love however will Mimi's insane jealousy spoil the young lovers' quest for a beautiful life together? Mimi might need a little help from an unexpected source. Let’s find out in this episode of Destination Freedom Black Radio Days. "I Am" features as MIMI: Nadiya Jackson, JABARI/DADDY/MALIK: James Brunt, I AM: Latifa Johnson and MAMA: Larea Edwards. This episode is co-produced, edited, and mixed by Maurice Smith for DiatonicLabs.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices | 21m 02s | ||||||
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