Everett Marshburn

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I wanna start the show by taking a couple minutes, though, to remember a very special voice in Milwaukee's journalism and arts community, Everett Marshburn of Milwaukee PBS.

And today, family and friends, colleagues, students, and admirers of all kinds gathered at the Wisconsin Black Historical Society to remember Everett L. Marshburn.

You probably saw him on the Milwaukee PBS show, Black Nouveau.

[laughs] I was worried because I'm not Black, that maybe the stories aren't meant for me, and maybe I wouldn't connect with them, but he was very kind and, and when I said, "But every time I watch, every story connects me with the Milwaukee community," and it often gave me a perspective that I hadn't ex- considered or, or been exposed to.

So a really big thank you to Everett for all of his work, and a big thank you to Milwaukee PBS editor Jason Pinkowski, who worked closely with Everett for years and shared audio clips of Everett with me.

And this is Everett Marshburn reading an excerpt of the poem I, Too by Langston Hughes, uh, who was a major 20th-century American poet whose work was themes of race and identity and dignity and the American experience.

This is a moment of Everett reading Langston Hughes.