This month's How Curious explores how the efforts of two African American property developers and entrepreneurs proved ground-breaking both within Oklahoma City and beyond, as well as on both a literal and metaphorical level.
You can read the entire episode transcript here.
As always, KGOU wants to thank all the contributors to this episode, including James Johnson, Eugene Jones, and Dr. Paul Lehman. We also want to give a huge shout-out to Dwe Williams and the Rhythmically Speaking Theatre Company for allowing KGOU to use excerpts from their production “W. J. Edwards: Oklahoma’s Scrap Metal Entrepreneur.” The full play credits are as follows:
Dwe Williams - Playwright-Director- Producer
Mr. Palmer - Videographer
Joyce Jackson - Backdrop
Giselle Williams - Backdrop assistant
Albert Bostick - W. J. Edwards
Trena Brown - Frances Edwards
C. T. Hassman - Terry Veal
Evelyn - Tierney Eden
Harley - Chris Shepard
James - Johnnie Swanson
Thanks also to Tiece Dempsey, Hurlan Dempsey, Marsha Herron, Matthew Pearce, Vanessa Morrison, and Deborah Richards.
How Curious is a KGOU Public Radio production. The Managing Editor is Logan Layden. David Graey composed its theme music and it's hosted and produced by Rachel Hopkin.
And we hope that you know already that the How Curious team is always interested in hearing about any Oklahoma-related questions or ideas you might have for a future episode. You can reach us a curious@kgou.org.
