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05/01/2026

It’s a new year and that means new faces! 📣Join us in welcoming Dana Green to the HBCU Radio Preservation Project team as our 2026 Annual Fellow.

Dana Green is a Public Historian and Ph.D. candidate in History at Morgan State University, specializing in African American history, Women’s Studies, and Sports History. A native of Akron, Ohio, she is a proud two-time HBCU graduate, holding degrees from Bethune-Cookman University and North Carolina Central University.

Her research and professional work focus on oral history, archival practice, and community-engaged public history. Dana has contributed to projects with the National Park Service, Johns Hopkins University, and the North Carolina African American Heritage Commission, and has co-curated exhibitions and led archival initiatives centered on preserving and amplifying underrepresented histories. She is deeply committed to preserving African American history and believes this work is essential for educating and empowering future generations.

Welcome to the team, Dana! 😃

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29/12/2025

What a year it has been for our oral history and team! This year we collected 78 oral history interviews from nine HBCU radio stations. In addition to this, our field archivists preserved a staggering 1,381 hours of history capturing the legacy, culture, and impactful moments that have echoed through campus airwaves for generations. 💽📻

Thank you to our partner , which serves as our repository for these oral histories and project related content. We are excited to continue preserving the sound and stories of these stations and cannot wait to bring each of you along as we share these moments and people! ✨

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25/12/2025

Happy Holidays from the HBCU Radio Preservation Project Team! ✨ We are wishing each of you a season filled with joy, rest and reflection as we look ahead to another year of preserving our HBCU radio stations! 🤍📻

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23/12/2025

Check your emails! 📧 The 2025 Year End Newsletter is officially out and features some of our most memorable highlights and milestones of the year. ✨ We are so thankful for all of our station partners, colleagues, oral history narrators, friends and family who helped make 2025 a meaningful one. 💙
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18/12/2025

As we begin to close out this chapter 2025, we’re proud to spotlight our 2025 Annual Fellow, Olivia Green. ✨

During her time with the HBCU Radio Preservation Project, Olivia captured stories rooted in place, history, and community through oral history interviews and moments of professional growth that shaped her as a scholar and emerging professional with this project.

From preservation visits to Central State University, where conversations with General Manager, Charles Fox illuminated the deep ties between radio, Wilberforce history, and community memory, to reconnecting with mentors and peers at NABJ, Olivia approached every experience with care and curiosity.She also reflects fondly on interviewing Xuam Lawson, the program director at , which was her second interview marking growth for both her and the project.

“The stories I encountered changed how I think about time, and showed me that memory is not fragile. It is resilient. It survives in studios and signal towers, in living rooms and in late-night gospel programs. It survives because people keep choosing to listen.” — Olivia Green

Olivia’s work reminds us that preservation is about people, place, and purpose. We’re grateful for the insight, intention, and excellence she brought to this fellowship, and we all can’t wait to see where her voice takes her next. 🎙️💙

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16/12/2025

We are excited to share this major milestone for our work in preservation and access! ✨

Our team traveled to AAPB at GBH to submit our first ever preserved audio file from Shaw University, marking an important step in preserving HBCU radio history. The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a major collaboration between the GBH Educational Foundation (WGBH) and the Library of Congress, dedicated to preserving and providing public access to historic public media content.

This submission centers WSHA, the first Black-owned radio station in the country, which broadcast from 1968–2018. Through AAPB, recordings of WSHA’s programming will now be accessible, including episodes of the long-running community affairs program Traces of Faces and Places hosted by Raleigh community icon and activist Margaret Rose Murray; play-by-play coverage of a Shaw Bears vs. Chowan University Hawks basketball game; and the station’s rich and diverse musical programming. 📻

Ensuring these sounds, stories, and voices live on is preservation in action and !✨

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12/12/2025

During our visit to Morgan State University at , our team helped preserve a growing legacy by collecting 221 CDs, 5 reels, 2 cassettes, and 1 minidisc and exploring the university archives with Morgan State archivist Dr. Ida Jones. 💿

While on the road, our colleagues Bryce and Becca also presented at the AMIA Conference. Bryce presented on “Sustaining Audiovisual Preservation Projects and How to Move Forward” and Becca on “Where Have All the Archives Gone? The State of Local TV News in NYC.” 💡

They closed out the week by volunteering at the Community Archiving Workshop (CAW) in Baltimore with Bryce, Chinyere, and Becca supporting AV inventory for the Valerie J. Maynard Foundation, a powerful, one-day effort to jump-start long-term preservation for a vital artistic legacy. ✨

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11/12/2025

One of the most powerful parts of our preservation visit to Morgan State University was gathering 15 new oral history interviews from 🎙️

We spoke with current students, station staff, and alumni whose voices shaped WEAA across generations.
Among them were Albert Lamont Germany, who read the station’s first news broadcast as a Sophomore in 1977 and remains a MSU sports commentator and mentor to Morgan students today and Ernestine Jones, host of Gospel Grace Evening Inspirations, who shared what a feeling it is to carry a voice that a community depends on. As our fellow Olivia Green reflected after interviewing Ms. Jones: “That conversation grounded me. It reminded me why preservation matters: because behind every recording is a life devoted to keeping people connected, informed, and cared for.” ✨

The WEAA Narrators 📻
- Albert Lamont Germany
- Ashlyn Thomas
- Brandon Henry
- Danise Jones-Dorsey
- Desmond Barlow
- Dean Dewayne Wickham
- Dr. Ida Jones
- Ernestine Jones
- Jordan D. Brown
- Karsonya "Kaye" Wise Whitehead
- Kelvin Davis
- Larry Lancaster
- Mike Middleton
- Mykel Hunter
- Robert Shahid

This Is What We Do! These stories are why we do this work. More voices and moments coming throughout the week. Oral histories will be accessible through 🎙️
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09/12/2025

The HBCU RPP team hit the road this week, arriving at Morgan State University’s for a meaningful preservation visit leaving with 221 CDs, 5 reels, 2 cassettes, 1 minidisc, and 14 oral history interviews. From learning stories from new narrators to connecting with past friends like archivists, Ida Jones, we are excited to share all about our experience!

Special shoutout to our partners for representing at the Association for Moving Image Archivists (AMIA ) Conference!

More behind-the-scenes moments and preservation wins dropping throughout the week. 3

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