The African American Hour
Audio-Reader‘s weekly pod with news and information on black and African-American issues of culture, politics, entertainment and sports.
Episodes
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Thursday Mar 20, 2025
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Atlanta Journal Constitution Newspaper, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and MOJO magazine. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Friday Mar 14, 2025
Friday Mar 14, 2025
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Atlanta Journal Constitution Newspaper, BBC.com, and The New York Review of Books. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Friday Mar 07, 2025
Friday Mar 07, 2025
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Atlanta Journal Constitution Newspaper, and The Chicago Tribune Newspaper. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Friday Feb 21, 2025
Friday Feb 21, 2025
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Atlanta Journal Constitution Newspaper, The New York Times, Dayton Daily News, thedig.com, Washington DC Informer, and The Guardian UK. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Thursday Feb 13, 2025
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Atlanta Journal Constitution Newspaper, USA Today, The New York Amsterdam Newspaper, The New York Times, The Chicago Defender, USA Today, and wordinblack.com. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Friday Jan 24, 2025
Friday Jan 24, 2025
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Observer, Atlanta Journal Constitution Newspaper, USA Today, and The Hollywood Reporter. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Friday Jan 10, 2025
Friday Jan 10, 2025
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The New Yorker, The Guardian, and Washington Informer. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Friday Jan 03, 2025
Friday Jan 03, 2025
Rosemarie Onwukwe shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Voice, Ebony, The Root, News One, andscape, KC Beacon, and Blavity. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Friday Dec 27, 2024
Friday Dec 27, 2024
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from History.com, Southern Living Magazine, Chatanooga Times Free Press, Baylor University Media & PR Department, Parents.com, The Black Agenda Report, & The Independent. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Thursday Dec 05, 2024
Thursday Dec 05, 2024
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from Atlanta Journal Constitution, The New York Times, WordInBlack.com, Editors and Publishers Magazine, NY Amsterdam News, PBS News, and TheConversation.com. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.

About the Hosts:
Rosemarie Onwukwe
Rosemarie Onwukwe is a 61-year-old African American woman and upcoming voice over artist with degrees in Communications and Education. Her passion for the community drew her to become a volunteer for Audio-Reader. Rosemarie also has a podcast titled Don’t Tell Your Mother with her daughter focusing on discussions relating to persons of color.
She is a recent semi-retired teacher after being in education for over 15 years. She loves traveling, meeting new people, and experiencing new cultures. She is half Nigerian and half American and grew up in both countries, attending boarding school in Nigeria.
Byron Buckner
Byron Buckner is a retired high school teacher who lives in Kansas City. He is retired from the Marine Corps where he was a radar repairman. Byron also served African American journalists in the Kansas City region as vice-president of broadcast for Kansas City Association of Black Journalists.
Byron has two daughters, and when he is not barbecuing for his family, he enjoys flying kites and monitoring international shortwave radio broadcasts.

Audio-Reader: Sharing the Gift of Sight Through Sound
The Audio-Reader Network is an audio information service for blind, visually impaired, and print disabled individuals. Audio-Reader fosters independence by providing access to information and the arts for people who have difficulty reading standard print due to vision loss, physical or learning disability, mobility challenges, and age.
We read newspapers, magazines and books on the air and on the internet, 24 hours a day, and we offer on demand newspaper readings by telephone. Our special request service allows individuals to make documents, textbooks and other print materials accessible to those who have difficulty reading standard print. Services are free of charge to anyone who is unable to read standard printed material due to blindness, visual impairment or another disability.
More info at http://reader.ku.edu