A new youth-driven podcast featuring Twin Cities metro area high school students titled Voices of Rondo is premiering today. In collaboration with the nonprofit ReConnect Rondo, the podcast will explore the Rondo neighborhood's past, present, and future through the eyes of its residents, community leaders and local experts. The podcast will delve into the history of Rondo, which was once a thriving center of African-American culture, business, politics, and music, and discuss how the community has evolved and changed over the years. It will feature shared community experiences and solutions.
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Rondo Youth Council In Collaboration With ReconnectRondo
The ReConnect Rondo Youth Council visit with members of the Rondo Community to elevate their voices on the why Juneteenth matters.
11 Nov 2024
Faces of The Youth
Welcome to the first episode of the second season of the Voices of Rondo podcast: Faces of Youth.
In this episode, we highlight youth perspectives by hearing the voices of students who live and go to school in the Rondo area. The Youth Council hosted an event at the High School for Recording Arts, facilitating group discussions about gentrification and displacement, which have been defining struggles for many Rondo residents. We also interviewed two students, Malachi and Marquis, who shared their thoughts about the importance of intergenerational community building, the causes of disunity, and their hopes for the future of Rondo.
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14 Oct 2024
Words From The Director
Welcome to the sixth episode of the Voices of Rondo youth council podcast: Words from the Director
The Reconnect Rondo Youth Council interviews the Director of ReConnect Rondo Keith Baker.
29 Sept 2024
Dismissal of Community Voices
Welcome to the fifth episode of the Voices of Rondo youth council podcast: Dismissal of Community Voices
The Rondo Youth Council delves into a Minnesota Department of Transportation report on rethinking I-94 and discusses the many plans for changing a stretch of the highway. The council explores the concept of induced demand and how the expansion of highways may not suffice. Studies conducted by ReConnect Rondo show Rondo's opinion but also show the need for improvement in conducting these studies. In talking about highway plans, the Youth Council delves into the cities of Houston and Miami, both having faced and now facing highway displacement.
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29 Sept 2024
Gentrification Stories from Rondo to Treme
Welcome to the fourth episode of the Voices of Rondo youth council podcast: Gentrification Stories from Rondo to Treme
The Rondo Youth Council delves into the effects of gentrification on communities like Rondo and Treme. This episode also explores methods cities can use to minimize gentrification. The council showcases interviews with folks such as the Mayor of Brooklyn Center April Graves, a former Rondo native who discusses restorative justice and gentrification in Rondo. Additionally, Amy Stelly, co-founder of the Claiborne Avenue Alliance explains the interstate highway's effects on Treme and how it is leading to gentrification that is eroding the cultural heritage of Treme.
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27 Sept 2024
Displacement of America
Welcome to the third episode of the Voices of Rondo youth council podcast: Displacement of America.
The Reconnect Rondo Youth Council delves into the various ways African Americans have historically faced displacement. They examine the correlation between violent events like the Wilmington Massacre of 1898 and the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, and the subsequent effects of infrastructure projects such as the interstate system and urban renewal initiatives. Interviews from community leaders Pierre Fulford and Kevin Washington highlight the economic, cultural, and human cost of transportation policy, as well as what it means to revitalize St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood and Detroit’s Black Bottom neighborhood.
Through interviews and analysis, the podcast seeks to shed light on the broader national conversation surrounding displacement and gentrification, offering insights into the paths toward progress and community empowerment.
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26 Sept 2024
The Blues Highway
Welcome to the second episode of The Voices of Rondo youth council podcast: The Blues Highway.
The Rondo Youth Council picks up where they left off in the previous episode, digging deeper into their findings at the Clarksdale's Hopson Plantation, the creation of northern Black communities through The Great Migration, and connections between places like Clarksdale and Rondo, whether that be through highways, music, or Civil Rights.
Clarksdale isn't the only city with similarities to Rondo, as the destruction of Black communities has occurred and continues to happen all across the country. In the following episodes, the youth council will unearth various other Black communities that were split by highway systems.
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Clarksdale, Mississippi
Hopson Plantation
Mechanized Cotton Gin
The Shackup Inn
The Green Book
Prison Industrial Complex
13th amendment
Modern slavery
Victor Hugo Green
Reconnect Rondo
The Grammy Museum
The B.B King Museum
Muddy Waters
Mississippi Delta Blues Museum
Mississippi Delta
Blues
Howling Wolf
Trans Atlantic Slave Trade
Diaspora
Highway
The Blues Highway
Rondo Ballroom
Wee Willy Walker
Irv Williams
August Wilson
Bessie Smith
Sam Cooke
Tina Turner
Civil Rights Movement
Interstate Highway System
Sundown towns
Racism
Black History
Sharecropper
Slavery
Plantation
Great Migration
Segregation
Gentrification
Redlining
19 Sept 2024
Voices of Rondo Youth Podcast
Get to know The Voices of Rondo youth council podcast with the first ever episode: Introducing Rondo.
The podcast is hosted by the ReConnect Rondo Youth Council, who dive into the systemic racism behind the U.S. Transportation System, highlighting its generational effects on the Rondo community in St.Paul, Minnesota. This episode features numerous clips created by students at High School for Recording Arts, including a trailer for the documentary titled Rondo: Beyond the Pavement. This documentary showcases the stories of Rondo community members, providing a look into the devastation that the I-94 interstate caused, as well as the beauty that existed before it.
The youth council moves into talking about The Great Migration, which created northern Black communities such as Rondo. This episode features a clip from a High School for Recording Arts trip to Clarksdale, Mississippi with shocking revelations about the Hopson Plantation to be expanded on in the next episode. Stay tuned to see what they found!
13 May 2024
Voices of Rondo Podcast: Dismissal of Community Voices. Season 1 Episode 5
Welcome to the fifth episode of the Voices of Rondo youth council podcast: Dismissal of Community Voices
The Rondo Youth Council delves into a Minnesota Department of Transportation report on rethinking I-94 and discusses the many plans for changing a stretch of the highway. The council explores the concept of induced demand and how the expansion of highways may not suffice. Studies conducted by ReConnect Rondo show Rondo's opinion but also show the need for improvement in conducting these studies. In talking about highway plans, the Youth Council delves into the cities of Houston and Miami, both having faced and now facing highway displacement.
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13 May 2024
Voices of Rondo Podcast: Gentrification Stories from Rondo to Treme. Season 1 Episode 4
Welcome to the fourth episode of the Voices of Rondo youth council podcast: Gentrification Stories from Rondo to Treme
The Rondo Youth Council delves into the effects of gentrification on communities like Rondo and Treme. This episode also explores methods cities can use to minimize gentrification. The council showcases interviews with folks such as the Mayor of Brooklyn Center April Graves, a former Rondo native who discusses restorative justice and gentrification in Rondo. Additionally, Amy Stelly, co-founder of the Claiborne Avenue Alliance explains the interstate highway's effects on Treme and how it is leading to gentrification that is eroding the cultural heritage of Treme.
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