Another View Live from Fort Monroe African Landing Memorial Plaza

WHRO | By Barry Graham

Published November 7, 2025 at 3:21 PM EST

Another View this week was live from the Fort Monroe African American Landing Memorial Plaza in Hampton and showcases the ways black people helped shape the economic and social order of the US. Historians Christy S. Coleman and Eola Lewis Dance along with the architect of the memorial Burt Pinnock join host Barbara Hamm Lee on the show, a part of VA 250, the multi-year movement of celebration, education, and community rooted in Virginia's revolutionary spirit. This, and all Another View programs can be heard on demand on the show's program page.

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Barry Graham used to arrive at WHRO with a briefcase full of papers and lesson plans. For 32 years he taught US and Virginia Government in the Virginia Beach Public Schools. While teaching was always his first love, radio was a close second. While attending Old Dominion, Barry was program director at WODU, the college radio station. After graduating, he came to WHRO as an overnight announcer. Originally intending to stay on only while completing graduate school, he was soon hooked on Public Radio and today is the senior announcer on WHRV. In 2001, Barry earned his Ph.D in Urban Studies by writing a history of WHRO and analyzing its impact upon local education, policy and cultural arts organizations.

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