This month we're proud to present one episode of the six-part series Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was (1996), created by PRX and the Smithsonian telling the story of radio’s role in the 20th century transformation of the African American community.

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Original Series Credits:

Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was was a 12-episode radio series hosted by Lou Rawls and produced for the Smithsonian in 1996. Series Producer: Jacquie Gales Webb. Episode Producers: Sonja Williams and Lex Gillespie. Production Manager: John Tyler. Post-Production Engineers: John Paulson and Matthew Sakakeeny. EP: Wesley Horner. 

Black Radio: Telling It Like It Was was made possible in 1996 by a major grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting with additional support from the James Smithson Society and the Public Radio International Program Fund, whose contributors included the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

PRX reformatted and redistributed Black Radio in 2021 for its 25th anniversary. Re-formatting by Genevieve Sponsler and Se'era Spragley-Ricks