[14] The next year he started the dramatic Black soap opera radio series Here Comes Tomorrow on WJJD.

[16] Two episodes – "A Garage in Gainesville" and "Execution Awaited" – are part of the Library of Congress National Recording Registry.

[17] After Destination Freedom Durham was the national program director of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.

[19] While an editor of Muhammed Speaks Durham created a soap opera for Chicago's WTTW television station.

Bird of the Iron Feather was the first all-Black television soap opera, and ran for 21 episodes, three times a week starting in January 1970.

[4] From at least the late 1940s until his death, Durham was married to fellow Northwestern alumnus and prominent Chicago educator Clarice Davis (1919–2018), with whom he had one child, a son, Mark.