Episode 24 - Sweet Auburn’s Enduring Legacy

Brought to you from the first, Black-owned radio station in the country, WERD Studios, this month’s PNBI recording is a very special one. Host Ronda Lee traveled to the Sweet Auburn neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia— birthplace of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.—to celebrate the grand opening of the Prince Hall Masonic Lodge, where Dr. King, and many other Black leaders, catalyzed the early Civil Rights Movement. On the third floor, WERD Studios was the movement’s first communications base. I...