Brandon Nightingale's guest appearances

Brandon Nightingale

Every Tongue Got to Confess Podcast

Mission Forward with Carrie Fox

Alice Walker

Charles Blow

Maurice Broaddus

Zora Neale Hurston

Michelle Robinson

Jose Flores

Walter Greason

Deborah Plant

Edward Jones

Holly Baker

Chesya Burke

Pamela McCauley

Joshua Walker

Julian Chambliss

Michelle Berger

OwlTail

We are just five years from the bicentennial anniversary of the Black press.Freedom’s Journal was founded March 16, 1827 in Lower Manhattan, New York by John Brown Russwurm, the first African American graduate of Bowdoin College, and the third Black person to graduate from the halls of an American college or university.Our guest this week refers to the Journal as a mouthpiece of the Black movement, an artifact of Black history that not only represents the place of the movement that has been in motion for hundreds of years in this country, but a marker of just how far that movement has come in the many years since.Brandon Nightingale is a historian and the Black Press Archives digitization project manager at the Moorland Spingarn Research Center at Howard University. Brandon's project: to research and document the history of the Black press.The Black Press Archive was started at Howard in 1973, donated by the National Newspaper Publishers Association. Now, fifty years on, the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation has gifted the Archive $2 million to digitize the historic collection. Brandon kicks off season 7 of Mission Forward with a conversation on the importance of protecting the voices of the Black press and sharing them with the world. Our great thanks to Brandon for sharing his experience and enthusiasm with us this week.  (00:00) - 200 Years of the Black Press (01:51) - Welcome to Mission Forward (03:29) - Introducing Brandon Nightengale 

We are just five years from the bicentennial anniversary of the Black press. Freedom’s Journal was founded March 16, 1827 in Lower Manhattan, New York by John Brown Russwurm, the first African American graduate of Bowdoin College, and the third Black person to graduate from the halls of an American college or university. Our guest this week refers to the Journal as a mouthpiece of the Black movement, an artifact of Black history that not only represents the place of the movement that has been in motion for hundreds of years in this country, but a marker of just how far that movement has come in the many years since. <a href="https://profiles.howard.edu/brandon-nightingale" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Brandon Nightingale</a> is a historian and the Black Press Archives digitization project manager at the Moorland Spingarn Research Center at Howard University. Brandon's project: to research and document the history of the Black press. The Black Press Archive was started at Howard in 1973, donated by the National Newspaper Publishers Association. <a href="https://thedig.howard.edu/all-stories/black-press-archives-howard-university-gets-preserved-digitized-thanks-2m-grant" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Now, fifty years on, the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation has gifted the Archive $2 million to digitize the historic collection</a>. Brandon kicks off season 7 of Mission Forward with a conversation on the importance of protecting the voices of the Black press and sharing them with the world. Our great thanks to Brandon for sharing his experience and enthusiasm with us this week. <ul> <li>(00:00) - 200 Years of the Black Press</li> <li>(01:51) - Welcome to Mission Forward</li> <li>(03:29) - Introducing Brandon Nightengale</li> </ul>

Reconnecting with the Roots of the Black Press with Brandon Nightingale

A discussion between Brandon Nightingale and Holly Baker about preserving church history in Orlando, Florida through the work of citizen curators and public history students. He shares his experiences related to the Carter Tabernacle Christian Methodist Episcopal (CME) Church in the context of his recent Public History coursework, including the creation of oral history interviews.

Brandon Nightingale and Holly Baker on Preserving Church History