Episodes
Jul 31, 2026
Jul 31, 2026
58 min
Rosemarie Onwukwe shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from Ebony, The Voice, The Gates Foundation, Blavity, and The Grio. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Jul 24, 2026
Jul 24, 2026
57 min
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from Harvard Magazine, NorthJersey.com, Ms. Magazine, The Cardinal News, Our Times Press News, and Courant.com. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Jul 10, 2026
Jul 10, 2026
57 min
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The National Parks Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe, Blavity, The Indianapolis Reporter, and The Cape Cod Chronicle. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Jul 2, 2026
Jul 2, 2026
58 min
Rosemarie Onwukwe shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from Voice Health News, The Voice News Service, AARP, Wichita Reporter, BBC, Blavity, and The Grio. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Jun 26, 2026
Jun 26, 2026
57 min
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The New York Times, KC Next Page, Texas Monthly, Fort Worth Report, and USA Today. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Jun 12, 2026
Jun 12, 2026
57 min
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from WordInBlack.com, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The New York Times, BBC, and Kansas Community Voice Newspaper. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Jun 5, 2026
Jun 5, 2026
58 min
Rosemarie Onwukwe shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from Ebony, Time, Blavity, Huffpost, Andscape, The Root, and The Grio. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
May 29, 2026
May 29, 2026
57 min
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Boston Globe, and The New York Times. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
May 22, 2026
May 22, 2026
57 min
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Baltimore Afro American, Taipei Times, The Guardian, The Journal of American History, and The Associated Press. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
May 15, 2026
May 15, 2026
57 min
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Observer, FreeNews.com, The Associated Press, Black Agenda Report, and Politico.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