Before You Go

Hosts Nicole Franklin, Bryant Monteilh, and producer Anita Rechell Works appeared live in studio, at KBLA Talk 1580 for this very special Oscars episode with Oscar nominee Stanley Nelson and Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winner Laurens Grant. Exciting weekend!

This special episode for Women's History Month features pioneering theatre founder Helen K. Mason, grandmother of Before You Go host Bryant Monteilh. Bryant and Nicole Franklin visit Phoenix, AZ history through Bryant's archived interview with his grandmother. Black Theatre Troupe's current Executive Director, David Hemphill, joins the show to reflect on her legacy.

Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh meet the engaging former Mayor of Taft, OK, Lelia Foley-Davis. Ms. Foley-Davis is the first Black woman elected Mayor in the United States. Her encounter with a well-known comedian is one she never saw coming! And, she during this interview makes a public request for help. This episode is not to be missed!

A poet visits the Before You Go microphones in this episode. Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh visit with Raheemah Raheem, possibly the second most famous resident of Turner Station, Maryland. We are also joined by a special guest, which prompts Ms. Raheem to share one of her biggest regrets.

Lifelong educator, rancher and State Democratic Party superstar Cedric Johnson shares Oklahoma's rich history with hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh. And, during the show, Mr. Johnson receives a surprise visit from his past!

This Black History Month we continue to take a Rewind In Time with host Bryant Monteilh's archives. At the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial dedication originally planned for August 2011 in Washington DC, Bryant met those who walked with Dr. King in life and at the moment of his assassination on that balcony in Memphis.

For Black History Month, Before You Go presents another interview from host Bryant Monteilh's 2004 archive that he captured while working as a journalist in Alabama. Birmingham's own Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was bombed twice, fire hosed and hospitalized. But he lived well into his late 80s and shared this candid conversation which is quite enlightening to both Bryant and Nicole, and the world.

When host Bryant Monteilh went back into his archives, he found the perfect episodes for Black History Month. This week, he and co-host Nicole Franklin take A Rewind In Time with Dr. Joseph Lowery. Listen to this 2004 interview and hear why this co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference says there is still more work to do.

When recalling music history in the era of the late composer Hale Smith, there is no one better to do so than his wife Juanita Smith. Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh take a musical journey from Cleveland to New York to the United Nations to Paris in this episode.

Hosts Nicole Franklin and Bryant Monteilh explore the mental wellness of our seniors with professional counselor and family systems expert Helena Washington. Lots to learn and do!