Welcome to the fourth episode of the Voices of Rondo youth council podcast: Gentrification Stories from Rondo to Treme

Welcome to the second episode of The Voices of Rondo youth council podcast: The Blues Highway. 

The Rondo Youth Council picks up where they left off in the previous episode, digging deeper into their findings at the Clarksdale's Hopson Plantation, the creation of northern Black communities through The Great Migration, and connections between places like Clarksdale and Rondo, whether that be through highways, music, or Civil Rights.

Clarksdale isn't the only city with similarities to Rondo, as the destruction of Black communities has occurred and continues to happen  all across the country. In the following episodes, the youth council will unearth various other Black communities that were split by highway systems.

Key words:

Clarksdale, Mississippi

Hopson Plantation

Mechanized Cotton Gin

The Shackup Inn

The Green Book

Prison Industrial Complex

13th amendment

Modern slavery

Victor Hugo Green

Reconnect Rondo

The Grammy Museum

The B.B King Museum

Muddy Waters

Mississippi Delta Blues Museum

Mississippi Delta

Blues

Howling Wolf

Trans Atlantic Slave Trade

Diaspora

Highway

The Blues Highway

Rondo Ballroom

Wee Willy Walker

Irv Williams

August Wilson

Bessie Smith

Sam Cooke

Tina Turner

Civil Rights Movement

Interstate Highway System

Sundown towns

Racism

Black History

Sharecropper

Slavery

Plantation

Great Migration

Segregation

Gentrification

Redlining

Get to know The Voices of Rondo youth council podcast with the first ever episode: Introducing Rondo.

The podcast is hosted by the ReConnect Rondo Youth Council, who dive into the systemic racism behind the U.S. Transportation System, highlighting its generational effects on the Rondo community in St.Paul, Minnesota. This episode features numerous clips created by students at High School for Recording Arts, including  a trailer for the documentary titled Rondo: Beyond the Pavement. This documentary showcases the stories of Rondo community members, providing a look into the devastation that the I-94 interstate caused, as well as the beauty that existed before it.

The youth council moves into talking about The Great Migration, which created northern Black communities such as Rondo. This episode features a clip from a High School for Recording Arts trip to Clarksdale, Mississippi with shocking revelations about the Hopson Plantation to be expanded on in the next episode. Stay tuned to see what they found! 

Key Words:

Rondo

Systemic Racism

Rondo: Beyond the Pavement

Prosperity Study

Urban Renewal

Urban Planning

Highway

Interstate

August Wilson

Roy Wilkins

Tony Stone

Black Excellence

Displacement

Devastation

Community

Gentrification

High School for Recording Arts

Reconnect Rondo

Transportation

Racial Covenants

Redlining

Jim Crow

Plessy v. Ferguson

Red Summer of 1919

Great Migration

Federal Housing Administration

Segregation

BIPOC

Black America

White America

I-94

St.Paul, Minnesota

Clarksdale, Mississippi

Colonialism

Generational wealth

Sharecropping