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BONUS: Brent Leggs on Raising Millions for Black Heritage
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Today on the pod, we have a conversation with one of the biggest contributors to African American Preservation alive today...
Brent Leggs! If you’re in historic preservation – or a similar field– you probably heard of Brent. But for those of you who haven’t — Brent is a Senior Vice President at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. And while Brent has done many amazing things to preserve African American heritage, as the Executive Director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, he’s raised over 80 MILLION DOLLARS for Black heritage organizations.
We talked to Brent about:
Brent’s education at University of Kentucky [6:35]
Brent’s childhood in Paducah, Kentucky [9:52]
Preserving the intangible as well as the tangible [16:34]
Preservation-Based Economic Development and who’s doing it well [33:44]
The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund: deciding who to fund? [59:18]
Training future preservationists [1:09:14]
Brent’s ideal Urban Roots episode [1:10:46]
Mentioned In this Episode:
Lejuano Varnell, Sweet Auburn Works - Atlanta, Georgia
8th of August - Paducah, Kentucky
Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative - Montgomery, Alabama
Jair Lynch and Howard University, U Street development - Washington, D.C.
Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, and Phylicia Rashad, Actor and director - Co-Chairs of Advisory Council for the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
Civil Rights Trail - Alabama
Dr. David Childs, Director of Black Studies at Northern Kentucky University
Palmer Pharmacy - Lexington, Kentucky
Eldorado ballroom - Houston, Texas
Faith Ringold - Englewood, New Jersey
Lucille Clifton - Baltimore, Maryland
Credits:
Thank you to Brent Leggs. This episode was edited and mixed by Connor Lynch. Our music is by Adaam James Levin-Areddy. Your hosts are Deqah Hussein-Wetzel and Vanessa Quirk.
Urban Roots is a product of Urbanist Media, a non-profit dedicated to community preservation. You can make a tax-deductible donation to us via Venmo or Paypal.
Follow us on IG @urbanrootsculture. Drop us an email urbanrootspodcast@gmail.com
37 episodi
Manage episode 361521535 series 2946857
Today on the pod, we have a conversation with one of the biggest contributors to African American Preservation alive today...
Brent Leggs! If you’re in historic preservation – or a similar field– you probably heard of Brent. But for those of you who haven’t — Brent is a Senior Vice President at the National Trust for Historic Preservation. And while Brent has done many amazing things to preserve African American heritage, as the Executive Director of the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, he’s raised over 80 MILLION DOLLARS for Black heritage organizations.
We talked to Brent about:
Brent’s education at University of Kentucky [6:35]
Brent’s childhood in Paducah, Kentucky [9:52]
Preserving the intangible as well as the tangible [16:34]
Preservation-Based Economic Development and who’s doing it well [33:44]
The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund: deciding who to fund? [59:18]
Training future preservationists [1:09:14]
Brent’s ideal Urban Roots episode [1:10:46]
Mentioned In this Episode:
Lejuano Varnell, Sweet Auburn Works - Atlanta, Georgia
8th of August - Paducah, Kentucky
Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative - Montgomery, Alabama
Jair Lynch and Howard University, U Street development - Washington, D.C.
Darren Walker, President of the Ford Foundation, and Phylicia Rashad, Actor and director - Co-Chairs of Advisory Council for the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
Civil Rights Trail - Alabama
Dr. David Childs, Director of Black Studies at Northern Kentucky University
Palmer Pharmacy - Lexington, Kentucky
Eldorado ballroom - Houston, Texas
Faith Ringold - Englewood, New Jersey
Lucille Clifton - Baltimore, Maryland
Credits:
Thank you to Brent Leggs. This episode was edited and mixed by Connor Lynch. Our music is by Adaam James Levin-Areddy. Your hosts are Deqah Hussein-Wetzel and Vanessa Quirk.
Urban Roots is a product of Urbanist Media, a non-profit dedicated to community preservation. You can make a tax-deductible donation to us via Venmo or Paypal.
Follow us on IG @urbanrootsculture. Drop us an email urbanrootspodcast@gmail.com
37 episodi
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