Hello Everyone--
My, oh my, what a hot summer it's been! The challenges that this ABW faced all of the first half of the year have revisited and my first priority is to stay focused on the positive. I am sooooo looking forward to the fall, my favorite time of year, cooler temperatures, clearer heads and hopefully some prayers answered. So, I am more than pleased to be joining you again for Show #20. There was so much I wanted to share but simply had to keep my producer's hat in place and hopefully have chosen wisely in what I've shared with you for this show.
One item that I will be revisiting for Show #21 is the upcoming showing on PBS in 2007 of a documentary titled Hip Hop: Beats and Rhymes, directed by Bryon Hurt. I will have lot's to share next time about this upcoming and controversial documentary but in the mean time here's something to get you started. GET IT!
In addition, I'm looking for ways to increase the amount of information I pass along, but not increase the duration of the show and until something different comes to mind, I've started what I call "Short Takes." Sometimes it's just not necessary to reshash an entire story or something that's been around awhile, note a correction or give a heads up to something in the works--You'll find that stuff in "Short Takes." If that works for you, please let me know. If you've got another idea, I'd love to hear it. So here's a link about former Congresswoman McKinney and what appears to be her successor GET IT!
As I take my leave for now, please pay particular attention to The ABW Rant. I have included several links to information that I think is relevant to you as a listener trying to get and stay informed and to me as I try to fill a void. The quanity, quality and value of news and information provided to the African American community, no matter how you cut it, is shrinking. Just this morning, Monday, August 14, in the St. Petersburg Times', Eric Deggans, reports on another PBS program supposedly for us that is failing or soon will. I don't believe that the host in question was suspect, just the way PBS has chosen to produce the program that leaves something to be desired. As George Curry of the National Newspaper Publishers Association News Service put it, "it's the bland leading the bland."
