Black History Month Specials on CMU Public Radio

Join CMU Public Radio throughout the month of February for programming commemorating Black History Month. Enjoy these specials by tuning in to CMU Public Radio’s broadcast channels, listening to our live stream or by downloading the WCMU App to your Apple and Android devices.

“Can Do: Stories of Black Visionaries, Seekers, and Entrepreneurs”
Wednesday, February 13 at 8 p.m.

"Can Do: Stories of Black Visionaries, Seekers, and Entrepreneurs," is a special hosted by Alfre Woodard, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actress.
The program features stories of black pioneers, self-made men and self-taught women, neighborhood heroes and visionaries.
A man tapes the history of his town with a scavenged cassette recorder, a woman fights for social justice with a pie, and a DJ ignites his community with a sound.

“Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, with Wynton Marsalis”
Saturday, February 16 at 11 a.m.

Veteran radio producer Joe Bevilacqua hosts this entertaining, informative hour, recorded in the French Quarter of New Orleans and featuring jazz great Wynton Marsalis, jazz author and historian Donald Newlove, WNYC Radio talk show host Leonard Lopate, members of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and others, on the origins of jazz, and the life and music and legendary trumpeter, Louis Armstrong. Also featured is the music of Armstrong throughout his long career, and rare recordings, including rare audio from a 1957 CBS TV documentary, with Edward R. Murrow.