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TOPIC: What’s happening, Detroit?
Focusing on a new documentary, this weeks’ show will feature the filmmaker and subject as well as a local accomplished artist and writer, Marsha Music working to restore Detroit to its original station as a vibrant, progressive, creative, diverse community. Detroit 48202: Conversations Along a Postal Route explores history and change in Detroit, through the lens of Wendell Watkins, an African American postal worker, and the customers on his route of 30 years.
Wendell Watkins was born, raised, and has lived most of his life in Detroit. He has delivered mail in the New Center area of Detroit for 30 years and the respect he has earned from his customers is keenly evident. Wendell attended the renowned Cass Technical HS and is an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction.
Pam S is a Bronx-based documentary filmmaker whose work interweaves historical narratives and personal storytelling. Pam is in post-production on Detroit 48202: Conversations Along A Postal Route. Pam teaches Documentary Production in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College.
Marsha Music, daughter of a legendary pre-Motown record producer, Joe Von Battle, was born in Detroit and grew up in Highland Park, MI. She is a self-described "primordial Detroiter", and for many years she has written about the city’s music, and its past and future. She is a noted presenter and she has contributed to important anthologies, oral histories and an HBO documentary.
