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Black in the QCA

WVIK, Quad Cities NPR | By Herb Trix

Published October 30, 2020 at 8:00 AM CDT

Karen Orozco Gutierrez holds a picture of her great-grandfather, Milton Howard, a Quad-Cities man who was born free and kidnapped into slavery, escaped to serve in the Civil War and later was a 56 year employee of the Arsenal.

On Midwest Week, in their own words African American residents of the Quad Cities describe what it's like to live here.

Herb Trix's guest is Liz Boardman, City Editor for the Quad City Times and Dispatch-Argus.

You can also hear Midwest Week Fridays on WVIK at 6:20 pm during All Things Considered.

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Herb Trix

A native of Detroit, Herb Trix began his radio career as a country-western disc jockey in Roswell, New Mexico (“KRSY, your superkicker in the Pecos Valley”), in 1978. After a stint at an oldies station in Topeka, Kansas (imagine getting paid to play “Louie Louie” and “Great Balls of Fire”), he wormed his way into news, first in Topeka, and then in Freeport Illinois.

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