Today’s topic and guests are inspired by the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center’s upcoming community forum “Dialogue or Divide: Race and The 2008 Presidential Election”, click here to learn more.

Mr. Westmoreland’s guest for the first hour was Ms. Angela Corley, Community Affairs Director for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. Ms. Corley and Mr. Westmoreland discuss the power and importance of the right to vote and other aspects of civil rights from the 1960’s through today.

Mr. Westmoreland’s second guest was Peter Bronson, Columnist for the Cincinnati Enquirer. Mr. Bronson and Mr. Westmoreland discuss race relations and other issues that have plagued Cincinnati’s communities.

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Mr. Westmoreland has a two hour discussion with Charles Davis, Jr. the Youth Development Manager at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

Mr. Davis references his experience as an educator and more recently working with the UBS Freedom Scholars program which is a community-based partnership between the Freedom Center and UBS Financial Services.  The program provides 100 high school students with experiences  to increasing youth leadership and economic empowerment.

Three themes frame the program modules:

• Financial Literacy with an savings/matching incentive
• Leadership Development related through the lessons of the Underground Railroad
• Mentoring

The UBS scholars program is currently seeking participants and mentors.  Contact

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Guests include Rev. Almetric Terry the Youth Minister for Licoln Heights Missionary Baptist Church in Mr. Westmoreland’s childhood neighborhood that he refers often refers to as Cincinnati’s Soweto.

Our second guest, David Dowdy, is a young man who also grew up and currently lives in Cincinnati’s Licoln Heights.

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Today’s first guest,  Judge Nathaniel R. Jones, discusses the relationship between the pursuite of education, voting rights, and freedom for all of America’s citizens.

The second guest, Adriana Leigh, discusses her personal journey in finding her families history.

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Guests included:

Joe Hansbauer, Advisory Board Chairman for Give Back Cincinnati.  Mr. Hansbauer discusses the Give Back Beyond program which returned to New Orleans for the third year.  20 volunteers made this year’s trip to work with Habitat for Humanity in an effort to continuing the progress since the aftermath of the Katrina hurricane devastation.

Cheryl Brown, Conductor of Footsetps to Freedom Field Study Tours, which makes an annual trip to Cincinnati and the surrounding areas to experience the living history.  Ms. Brown is also the Publisher of Black Voice News from Riverside CA.

Mr. Kenneth B. Morris, Jr., President of the Frederick Douglas Family Foundation.  Mr. Morris is the great, great, great, grandson of Frederick Douglas and the great, great grandson of Booker T. Washington.  He speaks of his awakening to the ongoing need to support freedom and fight contemporary slavery today.

 Dr. Daniel E. Walker, a historian with the Black Voice Foundation/Research Association U.S.C.  Dr. Walker has also authored ‘No More No More: Slavery and Cultural Resistance in Havana and New Orleans (Univ. of Minnesota Press).

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Mr. Westmoreland interviews Dan Yount the white Editor-in-Chief of Cincinnati’s black newspaper, The Cincinnati Herald.

Mr. Yount talks about the personal experiences that lead him to his current position and his perceptions on how all American’s must support America’s black communities.

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Mr. Westmoreland and Eli Grayson discuss the ethnic cleansing policy of the African descendants who are members of the five civilized tribes.  A current civil rights struggle in the heart of the United States.

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Mr. Westmoreland interviews a host of guests, each with a unique perspective on youth. 

Mrs. Alberta Jackson reflects on growing up as a share cropper and her transition from the plantation to small town life.

Proffessor Syl Flores (Northern Kentucky University) reminisces about his own experience as a young mexican field worker.

Carol Martin of Joy Outdoor Education Center discusses the important work and opportunities Joy provides to inner city youth.

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Mr. Westmoreland interviews guests Malcolm and Beverly McCoy from Lima Ohio. In light of the Independence Day celebrations Mr. Westmoreland and the McCoy’s discuss independence as it relates to the civil rights movement.

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Mr. Westmoreland interviews Mrs. Audry Johnson-Thornton, President, Belmont Mansion Underground Railroad Museum in Philadelphia, PA.

During the second hour Mr. Westmoreland interviews Bryan and Shannon Prince of Buxton National Historic Site & Museum.

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Mr. Westmoreland interviews Dina Bailey, Curatorial Fellow at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.  Ms. Bailey grew up in the greater Cincinnati area and talks about working with children who come to the Center.

Mr. Westmoreland’s second guest was Jack Marx, a Docent at the Freedom Center since it opened.  Mr. Marx discusses his experiences as a docent.

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Mr. Westmoreland uses this two hour program to reflect about history from three perspectives with three guests:

• Karen Campbell, historian and Mary L. Cook Public Library Librarian
• E. Selean Holmes, Curator of Freedom’s Sisters Exhibition, currently showing at the Museum Center in Union Terminal
• Rev. Kai Cole, Pastor Phillips Memorial CME Church

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