Dr. Shelley Stewart, a Birmingham radio and civil rights legend who started his career in the 1940s, has launched Shelley’s Plumbline. The podcast uses Stewart’s archival interviews to urge people to work towards solutions to problems that he has been discussing since the 1980s.
Stewart, known as Shelley The Playboy, was the radio voice for the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s on WENN-AM, and eventually became co-owner of WATV-AM.
The podcast will feature conversations with artists like Eddie Kendricks, civil rights icons like Hosea Williams, and members of the NRA, with Stewart connecting the dots between the past and present. Despite currently recovering from a broken neck, the 88-year-old plans to share some of his 3,000-plus recordings every Thursday.
