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Urban Roots is hosted by Deqah Hussein (historic preservationist and urban planner) and Vanessa Quirk (journalist and producer). Urban Roots is a podcast that preserves place through story. It’s brought to you by Urbanist Media, a 501c3 nonprofit dedicated to uplifting underrepresented voices and ensuring the places significant to them are preserved.
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Throughout its history, Decatur, Alabama has produced a number of unapologetically bold, creative, and “difficult” women who weren’t afraid to break the mold. In this episode, we’ll tell you the story of one of them: Carolyn Cortner Smith, believed to be the first licensed female architect in the state of Alabama. Carolyn was born at a time when So…
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The city of Decatur, Alabama is home to many historic Black churches, including one with a particularly rich history: First Missionary Baptist Church, in Old Town, the city’s predominantly Black neighborhood. Designed by one of the first African American architects, Wallace Rayfield, the church has — from its post-Civil War beginnings — been a corn…
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Today New Richmond is a charming town along the Ohio River with a relatively tiny Black population. But for a moment in time in the 19th century, it was not only a hotspot of abolitionist activity, it was also home to a vibrant Black community. How did that happen? And why are there so few Black families left today? In this episode, part two of the…
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Black Underground Railroad agents lived perilous lives. Because they could be killed or jailed for their work, they hid any and all evidence of their activities. So, today, historical records of their efforts are rare. Luckily, however, historians in the town of Ripley, Ohio have not only uncovered the stories of their local Black Underground Railr…
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BONUS: Preservation for the People w/ Dr. Kwesi Daniels
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HAPPY PRESERVATION MONTH! To celebrate, we wanted to share with you a new podcast that we think you’ll love: Preservation for the People brought to you by The Black Art Conservators (BAC) and produced by Urbanist Media! In their first episode, Kayla Henry-Griffin and Nylah Byrd talk to Dr. Kwesi Daniels (Head of the Architecture Department at Tuske…
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BONUS: Justin Garrett Moore on Humanities in Place
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EXCITING NEWS…Season 3 is coming soon! If you’re not subscribed to our podcast or our newsletter, please do so now! You can also follow us on LinkedIn and Instagram. That way, you’ll know immediately when a new episode drops. Today we have a high-energy conversation with Justin Garrett Moore, program director for the Mellon Foundation’s Humanities …
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BONUS: Moving at the Speed of Trust (w/ Zahra Ebrahim)
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Housekeeping first! Please give to our GoFundMe Campaign – we need your help to earn $5,000 by December 31: https://www.gofundme.com/f/urbanistmedia We’re also up for an Anthem Community Voice Award! Vote for us (Sign in and click “Celebrate”) by December 21! Now our amazing guest: Zahra Ebrahim, the co-founder of Monumental, a social purpose busin…
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BONUS: Rukaiyah Adams on Reimagining Community Wealth
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Today, pod squad, you’re in for a treat: Rukaiyah Adams is one of our favorite, most inspiring people on the planet. Rukaiyah had a long, successful career in investment banking before she moved back home to Portland, Oregon and joined the board of the Albina Vision Trust, an organization dedicated to restoring the historic Black neighborhood of Al…
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Juneteenth Cincinnati Shorts: Marian Spencer
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To celebrate Juneteenth, Urbanist Media's Urban Roots podcast has partnered with Cincinnati Public Radio (WVXU) to bring you Juneteenth Cincinnati Shorts: weekly, 90-second tributes to people and places important to Cincinnati’s African American history. Today, for our last short, we feature Marian Spencer, the civil rights activist and Cincinnati…
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Juneteenth Cincinnati Shorts: Union Baptist Cemetery
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To celebrate Juneteenth, Urbanist Media's Urban Roots podcast has partnered with Cincinnati Public Radio (WVXU) to bring you Juneteenth Cincinnati Shorts: weekly, 90-second tributes to people and places important to Cincinnati’s African American history. Today, we’re highlighting Union Baptist Cemetery, one of Cincinnati’s oldest African American …
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To celebrate Juneteenth, Urbanist Media's Urban Roots podcast has partnered with Cincinnati Public Radio (WVXU) to bring you Juneteenth Cincinnati Shorts: weekly, 90-second tributes to people and places important to Cincinnati’s African American history. Today, we’re highlighting Sarah Fossett, the hair stylist and Underground Railroad conductor w…
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Juneteenth Cincinnati Shorts: Intersectionality at the Cotton Club
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To celebrate Juneteenth, Urbanist Media's Urban Roots podcast has partnered with Cincinnati Public Radio (WVXU) to bring you Juneteenth Cincinnati Shorts: weekly, 90-second tributes to people and places important to Cincinnati’s African American history. Today, we’re highlighting the Cotton Club in the West End’s Hotel Sterling. It was not only a …
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This year, Urbanist Media's Urban Roots podcast partnered with Cincinnati Public Radio (WVXU) to celebrate Juneteenth! Juneteenth Cincinnati Shorts are weekly, 90 second tributes to people and places important in our region’s African American history. This first one is all about the historic Regal Theatre, located in the West End. Find each episod…
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Located between Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon, Vanport was a temporary wartime housing project built in 1942 to support the workers of the Kaiser shipyards. Working class people of African, Japanese, European, and Indigenous descent came for its well-paying jobs and affordable housing. Despite the fact that segregation was the norm in …
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A few weeks ago, we got to sit down with Nick Clooney, famous broadcaster and father of George, and his wife Nina to talk about a black church that they bought years ago in Augusta, Kentucky. After they bought the church, they discovered it had been founded in the 1830s by a formerly enslaved black woman named Sarah Thomas. The more they learned ab…
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BONUS: Brent Leggs on Raising Millions for Black Heritage
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Today on the pod, we have a conversation with one of the biggest contributors to African American Preservation alive today... Brent Leggs! If you’re in historic preservation – or a similar field– you probably heard of Brent. But for those of you who haven’t — Brent is a Senior Vice President at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. And whil…
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Happy April Fool's...but it's no April fools here...today, we’re 100% introducing you to two boss women doing dope work with Main Street America revitalizing urban main streets across America: Dionne Baux, the Vice President of Urban Development, and Amanda Elliot, Senior Program Officer and Director of California Programs. We met Dionne and Amanda…
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The tables are turned! Your hosts, Deqah and Vanessa, were recently interviewed by Nicholas Sikellis for his podcast, The Intangible, for a conversation that got into both their backgrounds and their unique perspectives on historic preservation — as well as their passion for the more intangible/nontraditional aspects of preservation, like cultural …
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BONUS: Supporting Resilient Communities in Texas
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Today, we’re introducing you to two all-star women we met at HAANDS — the Historic African American Neighborhood and District Summit — who are doing great work in Texas. First up, Tanya Debose, a fourth-generation Houstonian, the Executive Director of the Independence Heights Redevelopment Council, and the founder of Preserving Communities of Color…
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Rita Cofield is an associate project specialist working on the Los Angeles African American Historic Places (LAAAHP) at the Getty Conservation Institute. Deqah first met Rita virtually on a National Trust panel on preservation podcasting, and Vanessa was connected to Rita by LA Principal City Planner Ken Bernstein (our special guest at the Biddy Ma…
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BONUS: Forging a Path for Preservation-Based Economic Development
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Lejuano Varnell is the co-founder of the Historic African American Neighborhood and District Summit, HAANDS, and the executive director of Sweet Auburn Works, which does preservation-based economic development along the historic Auburn Avenue corridor in Atlanta. We met Lejuano when we were in Atlanta for the first, in-person HAANDS, and were lucky…
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BONUS: Reflecting on HAANDS and the future of our pod
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We’re back from the Historic African American Neighborhood and District Summit (HAANDS) and we’re still buzzing! Deqah and Vanessa discuss the many things they learned about preservation-based economic development — and gush over the great people they met who are working to help their communities stay in place, connect with their past, and thrive i…
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BONUS: Bringing "HAANDS" Together to Preserve Black Neighborhoods
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Elijah Davis is the co-founder of the Historic African American Neighborhood and District Summit, HAANDS, for short. HAANDS brings together professionals in historic preservation and storytelling, economic development and entrepreneurship, and community organizing to share ideas about what can be done to “preserve, enhance, and elevate” Historic Bl…
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As you may remember, our first season explored the history of three African American neighborhoods in Cincinnati. We explored the times when those neighborhoods were thriving — and when disinvestment instigated many of the socio-economic challenges these communities continue to face today. But one piece we didn't explore was how institutional inves…
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BONUS: Vishaan Chakrabarti on Community Preservation
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We’re trying something new: bringing you bonus content to keep Urban Roots in your feeds (and hearts?) between seasons! First up is a fascinating conversation with Vishaan Chakrabarti, the co-founder and creative director of Practice for Architecture and Urbanism. Vishaan, who has years of experience in the urbanism and architecture fields (check o…
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Black Indy Part 2: Reclaiming Indianapolis' Black History
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In the 1950s and 1960s, Ms. Jean Spears was a young mother and burgeoning preservationist. She saved antiques from houses about to be demolished; she bought a home in a white slum and renovated it; later on, she did the same with a historic home in the black neighborhood near Indiana Avenue. In the eighties, she and some neighbors started digging i…
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Black Indy Part 1: Madam C.J. Walker and the Rise and Fall of Indiana Avenue
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Madam C.J. Walker was a brilliant entrepreneur who built a haircare empire and became the first African American woman millionaire. You might have heard about her, but not many people know that her headquarters used to be located in Indianapolis, along a once vibrant Black corridor called Indiana Avenue, a place that today is known for parking lots…
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Remembering Biddy Mason Part 2: Building Black L.A.
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In our previous episode, we told you the first half of Biddy Mason’s remarkable story: how she was born into slavery in Mississippi, earned her freedom in one of the largest freedom suits in American history, and went on to become one of Los Angeles’ most well-respected healers. Today, in the second of our two-part series, we're telling the final h…
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Remembering Biddy Mason Part 1: Long Road to Freedom
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In the spring of 2013, Laura Voisin George was in the reading room at the Huntington library when she came across a historical detail that struck her as … unusual. At the time, Laura was a PhD candidate studying one of California's first surgeons. While perusing a series of articles, she discovered the existence of 10 massive murals — built into a …
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Unearthing Black History in Brooklyn: Green-Wood Cemetery’s Freedom Lots
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Founded in 1838, Green-Wood Cemetery is one of the earliest (and most famous) rural cemeteries in America. Its grandiose, park-like setting is scattered with notable burial sites and architectural masterpieces. But, in our interviews with Green-Wood staff members (Neela Wickremesinghe, Jeff Richman, and Darryl Jones), we learn about a lesser-known …
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Welcome back, folks! We hope you’re ready for another season of Urban Roots because Season 2 is coming soon – Juneteenth (June 19th) to be exact. Please join us on an urban journey as we explore hidden African American history in cities across the country. Join us in Brooklyn, New York where we visit Greenwood Cemetery’s Freedom Lots — in Los Angel…
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South Cumminsville: For the Love of the Neighborhood
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In this episode, the final of our Lost Voices of Cincinnati series*, we’re exploring the history of South Cumminsville, a neighborhood that, like many Black neighborhoods in Cincinnati, has been divided and diminished by top-down urban planning decisions and years of disinvestment. But it’s also a place with a long history of Black entrepreneurship…
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In this episode, the third of our Lost Voices of Cincinnati series*, we’re exploring the history of Avondale, a neighborhood that experienced a different kind of white flight and is still recovering from transformative events that occurred during the mid-century such as race riots and housing discrimination. We will discuss how these trends trigger…
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In this episode, the second of our Lost Voices of Cincinnati series*, we’re exploring the history of Evanston, the home of King Records, which was pivotal to the creation of Rock n' Roll music. We not only discuss King, but also another important anchor in the neighborhood, St. Mark’s, that has also been left to deteriorate over time. We explain ho…
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We are so excited to kick off our Lost Voices of Cincinnati series which explores the rich African American history of Cincinnati. You can think of this episode as a kind of prelude of sorts. We go back, way back, to Cincinnati’s beginnings, and tell stories you’ve probably never heard — like how a Cincinnati barber helped execute the biggest North…
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The Lost Voices of Cincinnati series will holistically explore the physical and social transformations three neighborhoods have experienced and endured in Cincinnati, Ohio — Avondale, Evanston, and South Cumminsville. There is so much that has been lost—some things were gained—and stuff that remains. Despite the odds, these resilient communities ha…
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We often take history for granted, skirting around subjects as if we already know everything there is to know about a historical event, person, or place. But, what do we really know? There are many stories that have not been told and many topics that have not been fully explored. This podcast challenges you to think beyond the familiar, and broaden…
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Missionary Spencer Smith exposes the Dark Side of Bethel Church... --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spencersmith/support
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Dwight Smith - Modern Modernists --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spencersmith/support
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Pastor Gary Biggs - The Occult --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spencersmith/support
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Scott Pauley - The Importance of Bible Reading
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Scott Pauley - The Importance of Bible Reading --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spencersmith/support
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The Local Church - Pastor Justin Leasure
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The Local Church - Pastor Justin Leasure --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spencersmith/support
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Third Adam Documentary - Missionary Spencer Smith
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Destruction - Proverbs 1-9 - Missionary Spencer Smith
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Sermon preached by Missionary Spencer Smith. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spencersmith/support
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Vance Havner deals with the new religion called "David's New Cart" --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spencersmith/support
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Christianity & Martial Arts - Are They Compatible?
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Can a Christian be right with God and practice martial arts? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spencersmith/support
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Carl Lentz Renews His Membership to the Apostate Club!!!
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The Sour Grapes of Personal Responsibility - Pastor Randy Taylor Jr.
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God's Counsel, Man's Choice, Life's Consequences - Spencer Smith
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Sermon from Missionary Spencer Smith. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spencersmith/support
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Evangelist Dwight Smith - Modernism, Fundamentalism, and New Evangelicalism
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Great segment with Evangelist Dwight Smith and Missionary Spencer Smith. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spencersmith/support
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