One Song Playlist Tony Dunbar

Denise Dunbar Perkins and Cynthia Lyle Rhodes are both aunts of host Tony Dunbar, who were high school classmates (Calumet High School/Chicago-1968).  At Calumet High School their school choir often won citywide music competitions. They also went to High School with R&B Vocalist, Chaka Khan. This conversation discusses the music and the times of the late-60’s and early-70’s along with providing funny antidotes you can only get when talking among family.  This is part 2 of a 4-part interview.

Recorded November 12, 2020 (The week of Thanksgiving)

Reverend Dr. Denise Dunbar Perkins and Cynthia Lyle Rhodes are both aunts of host Tony Dunbar, who were high school classmates (Calumet High School/Chicago-1968).  At Calumet High School their school choir often won citywide music competitions. They also went to High School with R&B Vocalist, Chaka Khan. This conversation discusses the music and the times of the late-60’s and early-70’s along with providing funny antidotes you can only get when talking among family.  This is a 4-part interview.

Recorded November 12, 2020 The week of Thanksgiving

Zemrah Songstress is a Chicago featured vocalist with a newly released project, Love is Possible, is joined my lyricist, Pamela Wilks who wrote a number of songs for the recently released project Together they share about the spiritual connection in their relationship, collaboration around music as well as their younger days and reflections of past social movements and current racial climate. This is a 3-part interview

Recorded February 14, 2021

Creola Kizart Hampton – is the Founder and President of Greater Works Inc.  She is a former Marketing and PR Executive having work for Ogilvy and Mather Advertising as well as Burson & Marsteller (now known as Burson Cohn & Wolfe) Public Relations. Creola is a renowned AIDS (and now COVID-19) advocate in the Black Community. She generously shares her memories of the Season One song, meeting Dr. Martin Luther King as a child as well as profound insights on racial and social justice. This is part 1 of a 4-part interview

Creola Kizart Hampton – is the Founder and President of Greater Works Inc.  She is a former Marketing and PR Executive having work for Ogilvy and Mather Advertising as well as Burson & Marsteller (now known as Burson Cohn & Wolfe) Public Relations. Creola is a renowned AIDS (and now COVID-19) advocate in the Black Community. This is Part Two of our four part One Song Playlist interview with Creola. Part 2 continues our Part One conversation on music and extends to discussions of the Vietnam War, the resistance to Martin Luther King in the Black Community as well as the murder of Sam Cooke.

This is part 2 of the 4- part interview with our guest; two of Detroit’s legendary and most effective and influential community organizers Professor Gwen Winston and Monica Lewis Patrick. This 2nd episode picks up where we left off in part one, transitioning the discussion from the 1967 Detroit riots to Dr Martin Luther King’s pivot in that same year to expand the civil rights movement to a broader human rights agenda towards addressing poverty in the United States along with King’s increased focus on the Vietnam War.

This episode was recorded in December of 2020