Dr. Karsonya “Kaye” Wise Whitehead is a historian of Black life in America whose work explores how Black history is remembered, taught, and carried into the present. She is the host of the award-winning Today With Dr. Kaye on WEAA 88.9 FM, where she brings historical perspective to conversations about some of the stories that matter in American life.

For eight years, Dr. Kaye has invited listeners into conversation about politics, culture, education, race, family, history, and the issues shaping communities in Baltimore and across the country. Her approach is deeply rooted in conversation: listening closely, asking difficult questions, challenging assumptions, and creating space for people to wrestle with the complexities of the present.

Dr. Whitehead is a professor at Loyola University Maryland and the founding executive director of the Karson Institute for Race, Peace & Social Justice. She also serves as the 30th president of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson in 1915 and the nation’s oldest organization dedicated to the study and promotion of Black history.

Her work in radio and journalism has earned two Regional Edward R. Murrow Awards, eleven Chesapeake Associated Press Broadcasters Association Awards, and the Vernon Jarrett Medal for Journalistic Excellence.

An award-winning author of five books, Whitehead’s scholarship includes Notes from a Colored Girl: The Civil War Pocket Diaries of Emilie Frances Davis, recipient of the Darlene Clark Hine Book Award and the Letitia Woods Brown Book Award. Her most recent book, my mother’s tomorrow: dispatches through the lens of Baltimore’s Black Butterfly, examines Black life, place, memory, family, and community through the lens of Baltimore.

Today With Dr. Kaye airs Monday through Friday from 3–6 p.m. ET on WEAA 88.9 FM.