NextUs818 Podcast is a reflective platform for connecting past successes with future progress in the African-American community. The Inaugural season of NextUs818 focuses on the 6888th Battalion, the only all African-American, all-female battalion to serve in the European Theater of Operations during World War II.

Our guest in Episode 58 is Karen Taylor, daughter of 2nd Lt. Vivian Elzie Taylor and niece of Private Marian Elzie Wilson who served in the 6888th Battalion.

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NextUs818 Podcast is a reflective platform for connecting past successes with future progress in the African-American community. This episode of NextUs818 focuses on the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only all African-American, all-female battalion to serve in the European Theater of Operations during World War II.

Our guest in Episode 57 is historian Kevin Hymel, author of the articles upon which the "The Six Triple Eight" Netflix/Tyler Perry film (2024) is based.

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NextUs818 Podcast is a reflective platform for connecting past successes with future progress in the African-American community. This episode series of the NextUs818 Podcast features the Montford Point Marines, recipients of the Congressional Gold Medal in November 2011.

Our guests in Episode 55 are Dr. Kim Avery and Lyfe Avery, granddaughter and great-grandson of Corporal Alcee Gholar, Sr. of the Montford Point Marines.

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In Episode 54, we share an excerpt from the commissioning and recognition of Harriet Tubman as Brigadier General.

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In Episode 53, we share an excerpt from the ceremony

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NextUs818 Podcast is a reflective platform for connecting past successes with future progress in the African-American community. This episode series of the NextUs818 Podcast features the Montford Point Marines, recipients of the Congressional Gold Medal in November 2011.

Our guest in Episode 52 is Dr. Diane Turner, daughter of Corporal Thomas Strickland Turner, Sr. of the Montford Point Marines.

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NextUs818 Podcast is a reflective platform for connecting past successes with future progress in the African-American community.

In the last episode of NextUs818 Podcast, we discussed the American ideal of freedom. In Episode 51 we examine the discriminatory and volatile history of voting in America and explore the 2024 voting imperative in the U.S. elections.

https://www.aclu.org/news/civil-liberties/block-the-vote-voter-suppression-in-2020

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NextUs818 Podcast is a reflective platform for connecting past successes with future progress in the African-American community.

We are in a unique period of American history. Freedom, a core element of democracy, is on the line in 2024 with the U.S. Presidential election. Episode 50 features perspectives on freedom: do we still value freedom, what is freedom, and what does it require of us.

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NextUs818 Podcast is a reflective platform for connecting past successes with future progress in the African-American community. This episode series of the NextUs818 Podcast features the Montford Point Marines, recipients of the Congressional Gold Medal in November 2011.

Episode 49 features an excerpt for the 15th Annual Montford Point Marines' Day Ceremony on August 23, 2024

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