Not So Black And White: A Community Conversation

Not So Black and White: A community’s divided history is a new podcast from WFSU Public Media tracing the divided history of Tallahassee and Leon County. Through conversations with the community, WFSU investigates the barriers that continue to separate the places we live, work, play, educate and worship.

Find out more about this podcast project by visiting wfsu.org or by subscribing to it on your favorite podcasting platform.

We invite you to WFSU’s television studio on the evening of October 25th to extend the conversation with interested community members. Our guest experts include Dr. Reginald Ellis, associate professor of history and the assistant dean in the School of Graduate Studies and Research at Florida A&M University. Dr. Ellis specializes in the history of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and African American leaders during the Jim Crow era. He will serve as moderator for the night. We will also be joined by Dr. Andrea Oliver, History Professor at Tallahassee Community College. Both served as content advisors for this project. The evening will also feature audio and video clips from the WFSU podcast and musical selections from Scotty Barnhart who will also discuss Tallahassee’s musical history.

Some topics we may approach include:

How do we break down the Tallahassee Southside/Northside divide?
Who speaks for our communities?
How have racial divisions impacted you?
How can we build meaningful solutions to our separation?
This event is free to the public, as is parking. Please register, since space is limited.

More info: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/not-so-black-and-white-a-community-conversation-tickets-428148322157