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Before You Go
by Nicole Franklin, Bryant Monteilh
A First-Person Podcast with 100-year-old guests. It's a sit-down with history. The conversation many never get to have...until now. Hosts: Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh. Visit us at BeforeYouGo.TV.
Episodes
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Before You Go: Join Us for News
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Before You Go: Motor City Charm
Betty Chavis spent years as a star recruiter for Michigan Technological University. If young people of color were to find their way far North to Houghton, MI, they needed someone to trust. Michigan Tech turned to Ms. Chavis, a Detroit native who grew up exploring all of her curiosities. An early...
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Before You Go: Undying Love Devotion and Respect
When Ajuma Muhammad was approached with a four-year old Black boy terrorizing the classroom, he relied on his years of practice and observations from his world travels to address the client's concerns. As we continue to perpetuate a climate where stress and distress affect the life expectancy of...
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Before You Go: The Ballot The Bullet The Incarcerated Seniors
Audiences tune in to Before You Go for first-hand accounts of the lives of our seniors. What about those of a certain age behind bars? Is death-by-incarceration being discussed enough in mainstream conversation? Formerly incarcerated Yusef Jones is currently out on parole after being sentenced to...
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Before You Go: The South Bend Stop on The Underground Railroad
Career educator and Michiana griot Brother Sage and wife Charlotte Pfeifer Gillam, a community advocate, activist and pioneering politician share a loving approach to African American history. Community is everything to this South Bend, Indiana couple who hail from various locations prior to…
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Before You Go: Fannie Lou Hamer Takes Center Stage
Diana Solomon-Glover answered the call from her friend and musical collaborator Chandler Carter to pursue a commission by the Santa Fe Opera for new works. They presented the story of Fannie Lou Hamer as an opera, won the commission and the upcoming debut is sure to be a theatrical experience…
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Before You Go: Canada Emancipation Day
August 1 in Canada is cause for a joyous occasion: Emancipation Day! Before You Go was honored to hear all about the journey to commemorating the freeing of enslaved people from Rosemary Sadlier OOnt (Order of Ontario), a champion of African Canadian education for Canadian residents. Just like...
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Before You Go: Five Stars for a Two Star Major General
When this two star major general shared details of his military and Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) experience with our show, we knew it would be special. For the hosts there was also a jaw-dropping moment (or two) due to Major General Gravett's courage, agility, incredible heart and…
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Before You Go: Return To Buffalo
Before You Go first interviewed Mother Doyle days after the terrorist attack where an 18 year-old white supremacist dressed in tactical gear fatally wounded 10 people in his mission to kill all the Black people he could. Mother Doyle does her usual grocery run on Saturdays at 2pm. She would have...
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Before You Go: Seniors on Skid Row
Rev. Andy Bales has fought to end homelessness in Los Angeles County for more than three decades. His tales of life on the streets of Skid Row illustrate the emergency situation in which Los Angeles has found itself. An average of 5.5 people die daily in LA County when they are unhoused. Bales…
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Before You Go: Juneteenth With Artist Richard C Press Sr
When searching Richard Press Online Gallery be prepared to experience a powerful variety of an artist's rendition of humanity on canvas. Mr. Press is a renowned artist located in Hampton, VA. This lifelong painter, muralist and educator is busier than ever with his contributions to community. Mr....
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Before You Go: On The Waterfront
At the time of this recording, the Port of Los Angeles has 45,000 jobs available. Working for the Port means being in the company of a business that pulls in $1.5 billion per day. Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh have an eye-opening chat with Joe Gatlin about the Port and the close-knit...
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Before You Go: A Purple Heart On A Mission
Robert Branscomb is a veteran, pilot and for a number of years--and still today in his 80's--a generous, experienced financial advisor with a specialty in insurance offerings. How do you make financial planning purposeful and profitable? And how do you avoid embarrassing the family when it comes…
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Before You Go: Terror Comes To Buffalo
This episode follows days after a tragic event in the United States--in Buffalo known as the City of Good Neighbors. Eva M. Doyle writes her column of 44 years "Eye On History" for the nearly 100-year-old Black newspaper The Buffalo Criterion. Ms. Doyle--known as Mother Doyle--happened to change...
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Before You Go: The War The Union And A Good Woman
Isaac Turner, Jr. was introduced to our program Before You Go by KBLA Talk 1580 host Najah Roberts. This 98-year-old war veteran appears with daughter Julia Hardman and recalls war stories from five invasions. Mr. Turner entered the Navy as a cook under Generals Eisenhower, MacArthur and Nimitz…
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Before You Go: Broadcast News The Inside Report
When news personalities such as Ted Koppel and Walter Cronkite delivered news from overseas, broadcast audiences probably were not aware of who was manning/woman-ing the foreign desks of network newsrooms at the Big Three: ABC, CBS and NBC. Eric V. Tait, Jr. and Stephen C. Miller give the inside...
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Before You Go: Lessons in the LAUSD
The LAUSD has been blessed with numerous dedicated educators, one of whom is Caldwell Williams. Mr. Williams was referred to Before You Go hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh by a listener and fellow veteran friend of his, Farron Dozier, who considers Mr. Williams a mentor. We quickly learn...
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Before You Go: Adger Cowans Photographing Us
When Nicole Franklin first met Adger Cowans years ago in New York City she knew other being an extremely talented artist and photographer, he has a welcoming spirit that has put thousands of his subjects through the years at ease. With Adger on the mic, both Bryant and Nicole have a wonderful…
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Before You Go: About That Military Life
Early in life things seem to have come easy to military veteran Frank Coats. When drafted to the front lines of the Korean War, Coats was promoted to sergeant within a year. But he quickly found out racism often puts African Americans in harm's way. Staying employed and living life responsibly…
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Before You Go: Carmen de Lavallade From East LA to Broadway
Carmen de Lavallade grew up in a Mexican neighborhood in East Los Angeles and started dancing as a teenager. It was her time with Lester Horton that inspired her teaching and choreography career. She was so inspired she invited her junior high school friend Alvin Ailey, to study dance with Horton...
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Before You Go: Live in LA Its Our Oscars Show!
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 compelling interviews and a library of rare footage, Nelson, an award-winning filmmaker, made it to the…
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Before You Go: A Legacy Close To Home
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 and ready for retirement, but the neighborhood children told her performing plays was what they...
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Before You Go: Cheers Tears and that Son of a $*#&! Redd Foxx
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 map and made the three Presidents she personally met during her lifetime pay attention. Yet even as…
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Before You Go: Poetry Praise and Peace
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 a 17-year-old mother who lived in New York City at the time. Her daughter Trudy Reed joins hosts...
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Before You Go: A Rancher An Educator and A Gentleman
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 been a Republican earlier in life, was well into his 80s when he was asked to take on this role. And...
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Before You Go: A Rewind In Time with Those Who Walked With King
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 Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial statue on display in Washington DC, Bryant's microphone captured the...
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Before You Go: A Rewind In Time with Rev Fred Shuttlesworth
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, Alabama, an endorsement from Shuttlesworth's would earn the public's trust when activists came to...
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Before You Go: A Rewind In Time with Dr Joseph Lowery
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, run ins with the Klan, his encounters with George Wallace and how Dr. Lowery, a reverend, managed…
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Before You Go: Music Memories and The Smiths
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 walk through musical history as Hale Smith's work in the genres of classical, jazz and spirituals...
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Before You Go: Spot the Signs Seniors and Mental Wellness
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 pandemic. Here on Before You Go, we knew it was time to call in an expert. Helena Washington has a…
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Before You Go: The LA County Deputy DA Talks Grandma Grandpa Scam
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 service representative within the department. This is a busy office due to the number of scams,...
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Before You Go: Right Place Right Time Right Stuff
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 viewers know his award-winning documentary, A Duke Named Ellington. Terry shares numerous stories…
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Before You Go: A Friendly Call with Film Critic Kathleen Carroll
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 Bryant Monteilh introduce this episode with the delightful and colorful reviews of Kathleen Carroll…
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Before You Go: A Visit with James Meredith in Mississippi
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 of Mississippi--a fight he won with the aid of then attorney and future judge Constance Baker…
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Before You Go: Heart to Heart
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 her family recognized the signs. Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh bring listeners a...
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Before You Go: The Champ Is Here!
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 Nicole Franklin to explain the tricks of the trade--even what to look for in dirty pool! Shout out...
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Before You Go: Family Detective
In this episode of Before You Go, hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh take listeners of their now weekly Los Angeles radio program on KBLA Talk 1580 to a quick visit with Aunt Pearlene and Menyoune in Chicago once more, then down the many roads traveled with Nicole's cousin, W. Jacarl…
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Before You Go: Sweet Home Chicago
Visiting relatives during the end of the calendar year is tradition for millions of families. In this episode of Before You Go, hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh take listeners of their now weekly Los Angeles radio program on KBLA Talk 1580 to the South Side of Chicago. Aunt Pearlene and...
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Before You Go: The Revolution Was Televised
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 syndicated talk show (strictly talk), hosted by Black Women. For You Black Woman aired out of New York...
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Before You Go: A Journey through Black Appalachia
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 Appalachia. This adventure story covers the history of her community--a number of which are her extended...
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Before You Go: When the Philly Strike Struck Out
Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh bring audiences a voice from the aftermath of the 1944 Philadelphia transit strike that shut down the city and disrupted the war effort at the time. White workers were determined that Black workers would not be promoted from the back rooms to train and...
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Before You Go: A Final Case for Reparations by the Late Rep. John Conyers, Jr.
Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh take listeners back to an August 2018 interview Nicole conducted with Rep. John Conyers, Jr. (D-Michigan) and his career crusade to establish the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act. During the Congressman's...
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Before You Go: He Skipped the Negro Leagues for NASA
Who would give up a dream of playing professional baseball alongside Negro League greats Dizzie Dean, Hank Thompson, Elston Howard, Willard Brown, Larry Doby and so many others? Semi-pro outfielder Nate Crump of St. Louis, Missouri asked a friend what life on the road really meant for Black...
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Before You Go: South Dakota Special
As hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh often say, "Stories like these are just a phone call away." Nicole picks up the phone and dials Doris Carey Graeber. We invite listeners to grab a good rocking chair and some lemonade to hear about the simple life in "God's country." Award-winning...
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Before You Go: From Sumner High School to Homer G. Phillips
We meet retired nurse Glyndorah Hubbard of St. Louis, MO who was born in 1916. At 15 years old, Ms. Hubbard graduated from famed Sumner High School in St. Louis. Upon graduating college, she began her life as a nurse while working at the only hospital where Black residents of the city could get...
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Before You Go: The Piano Lesson (Part 2)
The life of Maud Carroll takes a positive turn, but only after meeting the love of her life, saying good-bye to her mother at her mother's deathbed and overcoming racism as the church organist. The music of Ms. Carroll's favorite composers carry her through. She shares her love for both the music...
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Before You Go: The Piano Lesson (Part 1)
In this Before You Go episode we listen to the harrowing childhood story of a very special piano teacher. Maud Carroll immigrated to the United States nearly 100 years ago. Unfortunately she ended up in an abusive situation. With her life in danger, and nowhere to turn, the piano was her only...
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Introducing: Before You Go
Welcome to our podcast, Before You Go. Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh introduce audiences to guests who are 100 years old, "or just getting up there." We love our seniors. Join us at BeforeYouGo.TV. What we hope you take from our podcast is the importance of these conversations. It's a...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A First-Person Podcast with 100-year-old guests. It's a sit-down with history. The conversation many never get to have...until now. Hosts: Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh. Visit us at BeforeYouGo.TV.
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