VOICES OF A HIGHWAY PODCAST

Origin

If the Oral History Project allows us to understand the historical past of Buford Highway, our new podcast Voices of a Highway allows us to understand the tensions, ambitions, and questions of today.

Voices of a Highway is a podcast created, managed, and owned by We Love BuHi and it stands as a permanent program to collect the voices of today’s Buford Highway. The idea to create a podcast was born out of the many organic conversations our team was having with community advocates and community residents on a daily basis. These stories spoke about the tenacity, the pain, the ambitions of advocates and residents—stories that had to be preserved and transmitted to larger audiences.

FORMAT

Every month, we release two to three in-depth interviews that are conducted by our We Love BuHi staff in various languages (English, Spanish, Chinese). With a monthly theme and an informal and laid-back tone, Voices of a Highway is a platform and a safe space for Buford Highway voices to engage with their identities, current events, systemic inequalities, intersectionality, and miscellaneous social science and humanities conversations that are lived daily on Buford Highway.

Voices of a Highway is available on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Developed under their Stories branch, this podcast invites you to join us in discovering, celebrating and learning directly from local voices and everyday heroes of Buford Highway. We listen to these voices and interact with their stories from a place of inclusion, integrity, and allyship.

objectives

Voices of a Highway values the power of qualitative research and storytelling through new age digital technologies. Public-humanities is at the center of this initiative and our goal is to create a space that stands in opposition to a headline-driven world that continues to capitalize through provocative pitches on the backs of BIPOC stories. Our goal is to showcase diverse voices, raise awareness on the complexities of the area, and discuss the victories and struggles of preserving multiculturalism in Atlanta.