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
Sunday Aug 07, 2022
Ep 36 - Buck O’Neill, Nichelle Nichols, Russian Influence, Bill Russell
Sunday Aug 07, 2022
Sunday Aug 07, 2022
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Smithsonian, People, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Chicago Sun-Times, The NY Times, and the Kansas City Call. A production of Audio-Reader Network. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
Sunday Jul 31, 2022
Rosemarie Onwukwe shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Community Voice, Missouri News, Blavity, The Root, Ebony, The Grio and News One. A production of Audio-Reader Network. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Thursday Jul 28, 2022
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Nashville Tennessean, The Financial Times, VOA News, The New York Times, The Daily Kos. A production of Audio-Reader Network. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Wednesday Jul 27, 2022
Rosemarie Onwukwe shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Community Voice, The Root, Ebony, and Blavity and more. A production of Audio-Reader Network. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Missouri Independent, The New Republic, Smithsonian Magazines, Financial Times, Shift.com and more. A production of Audio-Reader Network. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Rosemarie Onwukwe shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Almanac, Missouri News, The Community Voice, The Root, Ebony, and Blavity. A production of Audio-Reader Network. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Ep 30 - Pandemic hits Black Women the Hardest, Here’s Why, plus Fathers Day 2022
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Rosemarie Onwukwe shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from History.com, Black Enterprise, The Community Voice, The Grio, The Root, Ebony, and Blavity. A production of Audio-Reader Network. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Byron Buckner shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from The Wall Street Journal AfricaNews.com, Andscape, Popular Science, The Wichita Eagle and more. A production of Audio-Reader Network. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Rosemarie Onwukwe shares selected stories of news, politics, arts & culture from Andscape, Newsone, The Grio, The Root, Ebony, The Wichita Beacon & The Community Voice. A production of Audio-Reader Network. This content is intended for individuals who are blind or print-disabled.
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Thursday Jul 14, 2022
Byron Buckner shares news articles from the Wall Street Journal, Reuters.com, The New York Times and the Associated Press. A production of Audio-Reader Network. 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