And in New York, longtime WBAI producer and journalist Dred Scott Keyes has also died. He won multiple awards from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters for his radio documentaries “The Gospel Truth: The Sam Cooke Story,” “Sweet Soul Music: The Roots of Southern Soul Music” and “Malcolm X Speaks to the Midnight Ravers.” Keyes also engineered and mixed the George Polk Award-winning documentary “Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship.” At WBAI, he was known for mentoring fellow journalists and producers. Dred Scott Keyes died on December 18 at the age of 68.
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