Destination Freedom Black Radio Days presents highy produced orginal Audio Dramas and interviews with people who get stuff done. Produced and directed by award winner filmaker and radio host donnie l. betts. Co produced by audio wiz Maurice (aka Reese) Smith.
Featured guests, Lynn Nottage, Sharon Washington, Charles Wright, Allison Semmes, Idris Goodwin, Marla and Angela Gibbs to name a few.
Audio Dramas, A letter from Heaven to America from Emmett Till, The Voice of The Spirit is Clear
Destination Freedom (now branded Destination Freedom Black Radio Days, this program illuminates a largely unknown, but important chapter in the history of human rights and tells how radio played its part from the very beginning. That boundary-breaking program, Destination Freedom, dramatized the lives of great figures in African-American and other people of color past and present, continues in its spirit with all-new scripts. This series honors and expands on that theme of the orginioal series from Richard Durham.
Marvin Booker Letter from a Denver Jail talk back 5/19/2026
Our panel discussion after the audio Drama Marvin Booker Letter from a Denver Jail
This
Audio drama is the second in our series on the unhoused
and will feature the talents of donnie l. betts, Latifah Johnson and John Furtell aka Panama Soweto as
Marvin Booker. Our after-show panel will be the
Hon. Elias Diggins Denver, Sheriff, Reginald
C. Holmes, Pastor, New Covenant Christian Church Alpha and Omega. Carla Coburn.
Pastor, Freshwind International Ministries. Mary Tellis, Pastor, Solomon Temple
Missionary Baptist Church
Terrence (Big T) Hughes and moderator Bro Jeff
Fard.
Inspiration: by Big T
I followed the Marvin Booker Murder and trial
for four straight years. Our Church, New
Covenant Christian Church supported the
family when they were in town, ensuring they had
food and other essentials to make their stay
comfortable as they traveled a long road for Justice
for Marvin. I watched a family continue to
support their elderly parents, who were determined
to see justice for their son.
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10 Jun 2026
Marvin Booker Letter from A Denver Jail by Terrance Hughes directed by donnie l. betts
This
Audio drama is the second in our series on the unhoused
and will feature the talents of donnie l. betts, Latifah Johnson, and John Furtell aka Panama Soweto, as
Marvin Booker. Our after-show panel is available in part 2 will be the
Hon. Elias Diggins Denver, Sheriff, Reginald
C. Holmes, Pastor, New Covenant Christian Church Alpha and Omega. Carla Coburn.
Pastor, Freshwind International Ministries. Mary Tellis, Pastor, Solomon Temple
Missionary Baptist Church
Terrence (Big T) Hughes and moderator Bro Jeff
Fard.
Inspiration: by Big T
I followed the Marvin Booker Murder and trial
for four straight years. Our Church, New
Covenant Christian Church, supported the
family when they were in town, ensuring they had
food and other essentials to make their stay
comfortable as they traveled a long road for Justice
for Marvin. I watched a family continue to
support their elderly parents, who were determined
to see justice for their son. However, central
to it all was a man who was a street preacher like
me, who stood up for himself, and they killed
him because he only wanted his shoes! His
dignity in the face of oppression inspired me
to write this play. As his mentor, the Reverend Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., was Marvin’s Muse for
all those years, the letter from A Birmingham Jail
became my muse through the voice and vision of
Marvin Louis Booker Street Preacher!
Terrence H. Hughes better known as Pastor Big
T is the Founding Pastor of
Alpha and Omega Ministries and current
Co-Pastor of the New Covenant
Christian Church Alpha and Omega Ministries.
Pastor Hughes is a human rights
and social justice advocate.
Marvin
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19 May 2026
Conversation With NEA Jazz Master Carmen Lundy and donnie l. betts
Carmen
Latretta Lundy is
an American jazz singer, composer, arranger, and visual artist whose
career spans over five decades. People
will describe Carmen Lundy as just this American jazz singer, composer,
and visual artist. But I just called her an artist because her career spanned so
many, so many disciplines. Add to those accolades, activists
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