Our features include Miami Valley StoryCorps and Dayton Youth Radio. Community Voices producer Pam Ferris-Olson looks back on the life of Daytonian and Gospelaires lead singer, Paul Arnold. And we’ll hear about an expanded exhibit at the Air Force Museum featuring the Tuskegee Airmen and their role in the Second World War.
- A new story from the Dayton Youth Radio project that began last fall, when WYSO partnered with high schools students in the media arts program at Ponitz Career Technology Center in Dayton. Funding for the Dayton Youth Radio Project comes from the Virginia Kettering Foundation, the Ohio Arts Council and The Dayton Foundation.
On Miami Valley StoryCorps we bring you conversations between local people who went to the StoryCorps booth in Dayton last spring. Today we meet Victor Ndisanze who visited the StoryCorps booth with his friend Jean Berry to talk about his family in Rwanda and his new community in Dayton. This Miami Valley StoryCorps interview - and many others - can be found at WYSO dot org. Today's interview was edited by Community Voices producer Alan Staiger.
Paul Arnold would have been 83 years old this month. He grew up in Dayton's Edgemont District and sang gospel at the neighborhood Baptist church. In the 1950s, Arnold became a founding member and lead singer of the Gospelaires, and by the 60s, the group had achieved acclaim for its international performances. Arnold died in 2006. His achievements were memorialized last fall in Dayton's Walk of Fame – which lies along the public sidewalk on West Third Street in the Wright Dunbar Business District. WYSO Community Voices producer Pam Ferris-Olson met Arnold's eldest daughter Khadijah Ali on the Walk of Fame to talk about her father.
This month, the National Museum of the United States Air Force is featuring an exhibit dedicated to the Tuskegee Airmen—an all African-American army air corps squadron who served in the Second World War. The museum has expanded the exhibit, and to find out more about the Airmen and their historical significance, Jerry Kenney spoke with museum historian Dr. Jeff Underwood.
