Michelle Tyrene Johnson
Senior ProducerMichelle Tyrene Johnson is the lead producer of LPM’s talk shows, and she is also the host and producer of LPM’s podcast Race Unwrapped, recipient of a 2023 regional Edward R. Murrow Award. Michelle received her degree in journalism from the University of Kansas, her law degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and her MFA in Playwriting from the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing at Spalding University. A native of Kansas City, Kansas, Michelle comes to LPM from KCUR, Kansas City, Missouri’s NPR member station. When she’s not living that radio life, Michelle can usually be found knitting with pretty yarn, or writing a yarn set for stage. Email Michelle at mjohnson@lpm.org.
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A new downtown restaurant offers a taste of home to Jamaicans living in Louisville and provides help to those impacted by Hurricane Melissa. -
For six years, Change Today, Change Tomorrow has helped provide free groceries to families in west Louisville. -
After 150 years of having no hospital in the West End, Norton West Louisville celebrates one year in the community -
Children in Louisville and Southern Indiana may be upset or curious about the UPS plane crash. -
Louisville-based nonprofit Nile Orphan Care is working to help hundreds of orphans in South Sudan, a country that’s experienced decades of conflict and civil war. -
Black Azz Camping is a Louisville group that runs outdoor events and promotes camping in the Black community. It will have its second annual camping event this weekend in Winchester, Kentucky. -
Artists and Afros, an event she founded last year, is happening this weekend. -
A special episode unwraps the unique sounds of Black Christmas music. -
When the class clown grows up to be a professional comedian, he learns to laugh about race, sexual orientation and even grief.
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What’s it like growing up Indian-American in Glasgow, Kentucky? Turns out, it’s pretty funny — if you’re comedian Pooja Reddy.
