Posts Tagged ‘Underground Railroad’

Radio Head

Monday, April 22nd, 2019

Cultural critic and DJ Jay Smooth talked to students at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School this evening.  He is best known for having the longest-running Hip Hop Radio Program (Underground Railroad).

Word Power

Saturday, August 18th, 2012
George Kilpatrick reads the words of Harriet Tubman at the Skaneateles Festival, not far from a stop on the Underground Railroad.

George Kilpatrick reads the words of Harriet Tubman at the Skaneateles Festival, not far from a stop on the Underground Railroad.

As part of the Skaneateles Festival’s “Not Your Mother’s Chamber Music Concert,” baritone Tony Cook sang several Civil War-era songs and George Kilpatrick read speeches by Frederick Douglass, Beethoven and Harriet Tubman.  Below listen to a clip of GK reading a speech by Abraham Lincoln.