Black Photojournalism is a podcast featuring conversations between contemporary artists, journalists, historians, and photographers about a period in the United States from the conclusion of World War II in 1945 to the presidential campaigns of 1984 when Black-owned media transformed how people were able to access seeing themselves and their communities. Hosted by renowned author and journalist Mark Whitaker, the series explores this period of urgent social change and civil rights advocacy in different cities and regions around the nation.
Episodes roll out every other Wednesday from October 22, 2025 to January 14, 2026. Listen at carnegieart.org or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Black Photojournalism is a podcast featuring conversations between contemporary artists, journalists, historians, and photographers about a period in the United States from the conclusion of World War II in 1945 to the presidential campaigns of 1984 when Black-owned media transformed how people were able to access seeing themselves and their communities. Hosted by renowned author and journalist Mark Whitaker, the series explores this period of urgent social change and civil rights advocacy in different cities and regions around the nation.
Episodes roll out every other Wednesday from October 22, 2025 to January 14, 2026. Listen at carnegieart.org or wherever you get your podcasts.
Dr. Frances “Toni” Murphy Draper and artist Savannah Wood talk about the history of Baltimore’s AFRO American Newspaper and their family’s ownership of the paper that dates back five generations to 1892. Today, the AFRO holds more than three million photographs in its archive which it is seeking to make public in a new visitor center in the Upton neighborhood.
—Image: unidentified photographer, “Surrounded by excited AFRO newsies, Mayor McKeldin pauses in front of the AFRO building, Friday, while he and Miss Florence L. Murphy, Clean Block director, look over the route of the clean block tour of the city.,” 1946, Collection of The AFRO-American Newspapers Archives
Black Photojournalism
Black Photojournalism is a podcast featuring conversations between contemporary artists, journalists, historians, and photographers about a period in the United States from the conclusion of World War II in 1945 to the presidential campaigns of 1984 when Black-owned media transformed how people were able to access seeing themselves and their communities. Hosted by renowned author and journalist Mark Whitaker, the series explores this period of urgent social change and civil rights advocacy in different cities and regions around the nation.
Episodes roll out every other Wednesday from October 22, 2025 to January 14, 2026. Listen at carnegieart.org or wherever you get your podcasts.
