Before You Go

Stanley Nelson appears as a guest on Before You Go during a career milestone:  Oscar nominee. After decades of directing historical documentaries illuminating African American history through compell…

In 1970, Black Theatre Troupe founder Helen K. Mason launched the oldest Black theatre organization in the Southwest Region of the United States while in Phoenix, AZ. She was 60 years old at the time…

Former Mayor Lelia Foley-Davis made history with her election  to office while a single mother of five on welfare. Her "common sense" degree enabled her leadership skills to help put Taft, OK on the …

Raheemah Raheem, possibly the second most famous resident of Turner Station, Maryland next to Henrietta Lacks, shares her poetry and a revealing story about a life-changing choice she had to make as …

In this postcard from Oklahoma, we meet Cedric Johnson, the first African American to represent the State of Oklahoma at a Democratic National Convention. Since this was 2016,  Mr. Johnson, who had b…

Before You Go hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh take A Rewind In Time with more of Bryant's treasured archives--this time while on assignment with WVON in Chicago. At the feet of the 30ft Mar…

Host Bryant Monteilh takes listeners for A Rewind In Time with this candid 2004 interview of Southern Christian Leadership co-founder Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth. 

In the 1950s and 60s in Birmingham, …

Huntsville Alabama's own Dr. Joseph Lowery sat down with Bryant Monteilh back in 2004 to talk about growing up with a profiling experience that could have tragically changed the course of his life, r…

Before You Go co-host Nicole Franklin has the honor of inviting her longtime friend  Juanita Smith who shares memories of her composer husband Hale Smith with Bryant Monteilh and the audience. It's a…

Staying connected to our seniors and recognizing signs of depression, self-harm, sustained and existing trauma and mental illness is crucial these days, especially while experiencing a global pandemi…

Renee Rose is the Deputy-in-Charge of the Elder and Dependent Adult Abuse Section of the White Collar Crimes Division of the LA County  District Attorney's Office. Eder Hernandez works as a victims  …

Our Season 2 premiere episode features hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh as they visit with stage and screen star Terry Carter. Fans of Battlestar Gallactica know him as Colonel Tigh. PBS vie…

For our Season 1 finale, we honor the words that often end our show: "Might be time to pick up the phone. There's no time like the present! What a gift." 

Before You Go co-hosts Nicole Franklin and Br…

The Before You Go conversation with James Meredith sets the record straight.  Mr. Meredith, an iconic warrior, made history during the Jim Crow era in the United States.  He integrated the University…

Busy casting director Mellicent Dyane had a 30-year career before deciding it was time to direct her first film. The subject was a pressing one--her mother had suffered a heart attack and no one in h…

Bronx, NY native Dorothy Swanston, born in 1945, is 10 years into her post-retirement career as a champion pool player. She's a three-time MVP and she and son Wayne visit with Before You Go co-host N…

Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh introduce audiences to Nicole's longtime friend and colleague Rafee Kamaal, a groundbreaking television producer on the team responsible for the first syndic…

Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh introduce audiences to author Mary Othella Burnette. Ms. Burnette self-published her book Lige of the Black Walnut Tree: Growing Up Black in Southern Appalac…