The African American Hour

Ep 159 - Timelessness of Christmas Spirituals, Kwanzaa -- What is It and How is It Celebrated, Origins of New Year's Day Food Traditions

Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from news.web.baylor.edu, Southern Living, History.com, Chatanooga Free Times Press, Parents.com, and The Independent. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.

Ep 158 - The History of Mac n Cheese, Short Story by Langston Hughes, Afro Carribean Christmas Traditions

Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The New York Times, Pew Research Center, Essence, and The Windsor Star Newspaper. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.

Ep 157 - Founder of "Cowboys of Color" Has Died, Black WWII Veteran Plaque Removed, Black Modernist Architects

Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from Baltimore Afro American, Atlanta Journal Constitution Newspaper, San Francisco Examiner, Dallas Morning News, Newsweek, and Black Enterprise. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.

Ep 156 - Top 50 African American Podcasts (and ours is included!), Why Black Middle Class is Still Struggling, New Black-Led Movies in Theaters in 2025

Rosemarie Onwukwe shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Voice, Afro News, The Voice of Black Cincinnati, and BET. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.

Ep 155 - $400 Million Raised to Train Black Doctors, National Regristry Listing for Resting Place of Emmett Till, Black Communities Are Taking On Big Tech

Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from actnews.com, Kansas Reflector, Capital B News, nola.com, and blackenterprise.com. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.

Ep 154 - Mackenzie Scott Donates $40 Million to Preserve Black History, ATL's 1st Black History Museum Finds New Light, The President Who Re-Segregated the Federal Gov't

Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The New York Times, Time Magazine, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.

Ep 153 - Meet the 5 Black MacArthur Grant Recipients, Misty Copeland Hangs Up Her Point Shoes, The Slow Painful Decline of Black Celebrity Activism

Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from New York Times, wordinblack.com, Travel Noir Magazine, Salon, and the AP. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.

Ep 152 - NASA Class First in 40 Years Without Black Recruits, Oposing Views on Million Man March, 'Black Arms to Hold You Up' Book Review

Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from New York Times, The Root, wordinblack.com, and Mashable. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.

Ep 151 - Overwhelmingly White Administration Dismissing High-Ranking Black Officials, The Root is Black-Owned Again, How to Keep KY's Black-Led Farms Alive

Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from Blavity, Philadelphia Daily News, nextcity.com, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.

Ep 150 - Assata Shakur Obit, George Hardy (Tuskegee Airmen) Obit, The Life of Tennis Champ Althea Gibson

Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Baltimore Afro American, The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Review of Books, sdvoice.info, and The New York Times. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.