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Who gets remembered when a city changes? Urban Roots is an award-winning podcast that preserves place through story to uncover the social histories embedded in neighborhoods, buildings, and cultural landscapes, exploring how development, planning, and preservation shape Black communities and their claims to space. Hosted by Deqah and published by Urban Roots Collaborative (AKA Urbanist Media), a 501 (c) (3).
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- Edgemont Inn (short) · 2 min · Stagione 4 Episodio 5From 1833 to 1851, Harriet Beecher Stowe and her family called a two-story yellow brick house in Walnut Hills home. Her experiences there – across the river from slave-owning…
- Gordon Hotel (short) · 2 min · Stagione 4 Episodio 4In the 1910s, millions of migrants from the rural South arrived in Cincinnati seeking employment. Affordable housing was scarce; workers and their families packed into dark…
- Preserving Cincinnati's Green Book Legacy · 48 minYou heard briefly about Cincinnati’s remaining Green Book sites in our shorts; now prepare to be immersed in their history. Our host (Deqah) will take you to Walnut Hills and…
- Manse Hotel (short) · 1 min · Stagione 4 Episodio 2When greats like Duke Ellington, Jackie Robinson, or Thurgood Marshall came to Cincinnati, they couldn’t stay at the white-only inns downtown – so they went to The Manse Hotel…
- The Green Book (short) · 2 min · Stagione 4 Episodio 1In Jim Crow America, Black Americans couldn’t travel like their White counterparts. Every time you stopped at a restaurant, a gas stop, a bathroom, you’d have to check: can you…
- k. kennedy Whiters on Preservation as Repair · 50 minJoin Deqah (host) as she sits down with guest, k. kennedy Whiters– a preservationist, registered architect, business owner, educator, writer, and founder of interdisciplinary…
- ALT Design: Brent Spence Community Engagement · 5 minSince October 2023, the Ohio Department of Transportation and the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet have advanced a new iteration of the Brent Spence Bridge Corridor Project…
- The Real Value of Real Estate w/ Cecily King · 59 minDive into all things real estate in our latest convo with Cecily King, a real estate professional and educator whose work focuses on equitable development, racial justice, and…
- BONUS: Preserving Joy: A’Lelia Walker’s Harlem Renaissance · 42 minJoin Deqah Hussein-Wetzel (host) and award-winning journalist and historian A'lelia Bundles (guest), in a Black history and preservation-focused conversation about A'lelia's…
- BONUS: Bree Jones on Development Without Displacement · 1 h 1 minUnpack equitable preservation-based development with Deqah (host) and Bree Jones (guest), the Founder and CEO of Parity, an equitable development company headquartered in West…
- The Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs – Juneteenth Cincinnati Shorts · 2 minWe at Urbanist Media (and the Urban Roots podcast) are excited to have, yet again, celebrated Juneteenth with Cincinnati Public Radio. This year, we produced brand new…
- Dr. Lucy Orinthia Oxley – Juneteenth Cincinnati Shorts · 2 minWe at Urbanist Media (and the Urban Roots podcast) are excited to have, yet again, celebrated Juneteenth with Cincinnati Public Radio. This year, we produced brand new…
- Jennie Davis Porter – Juneteenth Cincinnati Shorts · 2 minWe at Urbanist Media (and the Urban Roots podcast) are excited to have, yet again, celebrated Juneteenth with Cincinnati Public Radio. This year, we produced brand new…
- Robert S. Duncanson - Juneteenth Cincinnati Shorts · 2 min · Stagione 1We at Urbanist Media (and the Urban Roots podcast) are excited to have, yet again, celebrated Juneteenth with Cincinnati Public Radio. This year, we produced brand new…
- BONUS: Architects Who Opened Doors w/ Michael Burson and David Kirk · 59 minIn this episode of the Urban Roots podcast, host Deqah Hussein-Wetzel sits down with two accomplished Cincinnati-based Black architects—David Kirk, President and CEO of DNK…
- BONUS: Building Little Saigon w/ Erica Allen-Kim · 1 h 12 minIn this bonus episode, Deqah and Vanessa have a much-needed conversation with Erica Allen-Kim about her new—must-read—book, Building Little Saigon: Refugee Urbanism in American…
- BONUS: Making Noise With No Money: The Decay Devils · 48 minDeqah and Vanessa chat with Lori Gonzalez and Tyrell Anderson from the Decay Devils, an organization that started as a group of friends in Gary, Indiana who loved playing in…
- Carolyn Cortner Smith · 28 min · Stagione 3 Episodio 4Throughout its history, Decatur, Alabama has produced a number of unapologetically bold, creative, and “difficult” women who weren’t afraid to break the mold. In this episode…
- First Missionary Baptist Church · 39 min · Stagione 3 Episodio 3The city of Decatur, Alabama is home to many historic Black churches, including one with a particularly rich history: First Missionary Baptist Church, in Old Town, the city’s…
- Ohio River to Freedom: New Richmond · 24 min · Stagione 3 Episodio 2Today New Richmond is a charming town along the Ohio River with a relatively tiny Black population. But for a moment in time in the 19th century, it was not only a hotspot of…
