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.
Audio-Reader‘s weekly pod with news and information on black and African-American issues of culture, politics, entertainment and sports.
Episodes
Friday Jun 12, 2026
Friday Jun 12, 2026
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.
Friday Jun 05, 2026
Friday Jun 05, 2026
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.
Friday May 29, 2026
Friday May 29, 2026
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.
Friday May 22, 2026
Friday May 22, 2026
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.
Friday May 15, 2026
Friday May 15, 2026
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.
Thursday May 07, 2026
Ep 186 - Review of new MLK Jr. Biography, Essential Black Books, Black Comic Books
Thursday May 07, 2026
Thursday May 07, 2026
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Dig, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, and AAIHS.org. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Friday May 01, 2026
Friday May 01, 2026
Rosemarie Onwukwe shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from Ebony, Voice Health News, The Beacon KC, Blavity, Andscape, and The Grio. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Thursday Apr 23, 2026
Thursday Apr 23, 2026
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Washington Post and from the book titled "The First Eight". This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Friday Apr 17, 2026
Friday Apr 17, 2026
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Atlanta Journal Constitution, USA Today, nola.com, and The Atlanta Journal Constitution. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Thursday Apr 09, 2026
Thursday Apr 09, 2026
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Atlanta Journal Constitution, MississippiToday.org, Canada History Magazine, Religious News Service, The Houston Defender, The Washington Post, and People magazine. 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



