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Episode
1601
African-American
Male Summit Highlights
North
Carolina's African-American Male Summit was held at Mt. Zion
Baptist Church on Saturday, June 17, 2000 to address important
issues affecting African-American males. Join host Jay Holloway
and special guests, Dr. Henry Johnson, associate superintendent
of the NC Department of Public Instruction, Dr. Arnett Coleman,
president of the Old North State Medical Society and Milton
C. Jordan, an executive trainer with KOG Ministries/The NEWS
Group, as they highlight the important issues affecting African-American
male community and discuss action plans to improve the future.
(Summary report)
Episode
1602
Princeville's
Recovery Plan
Hurricane
Floyd devastated a small town named Princeville,
originally chartered by African-Americans 115 years ago. Today's
recovery plan is in place, but will the people here adopt
a progressive perspective? Join Black Issues Forum as we look
at the challenges the community has to face, the new mindset
it may have to develop and other ways to further improve the
new town of Princeville. The guests include Brad Gair, FEMA
coordinator for the Princeville Recovery Plan, Jack Bond,
interim town manager, and Teresa Williams, Princeville resident.
Episode
1603
Thinking
Outside the Box
What
are the possible, probable and preferred futures for African-Americans?
Black Issues Forum host, Jay Holloway, invites Dr. Nat Irvin,
founder and president of Future
Focus 2020, to share his futurist and innovative ideas
on what the future holds for African-Americans and other minorities.
Fewer
Juveniles Being Sent to NC State Prisons (news article)
Episode
1604
Voting
Challenges and the Bond
Join
host Jay Holloway with special guests Rep. "Mickey" Michaux
and Dr. Jarvis Hall as they discuss black voting patterns
and the historical impact of the black vote on bonds.
Episode
1605
Tell Me More About the Bond
Black
Issues Forum welcomes Phail Wynn, president of Durham
Technical Community College, to discuss how the NC
Community College System and North Carolinians in general
will benefit from the passage of the Higher Education Improvement
Bonds. Hardy Watkins, a resident of North Carolina, shares
his concerns if the bond package is passed.
Resources:
Other
supporters:
-
NC Citizens for
Educational Opportunity
Those
opposed:
-
John
Locke Foundation
Episode
1606
Closing
the Academic Achievement Gap
How
is academic achievement defined in our school systems? And,
how is it calculated? Black Issues Forum examines these questions
with guests Dr. Marvin Pittman, assistant to the North Carolina
state superintendent, and Jackie Mburu, principal, SPARC Academy
in Raleigh.
The Department
of Public Instruction is one of eight organizations that received
the Daisy Bates Educational Advocacy Award given by the NAACP
(National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
this month. The award was give to the Department for its work
to close achievement gaps. To read more about this, please
go to http://www.ncpublicschools.org
and look under In the News.
Resource:
North
Carolina Department of Public Education Closing the Gap web
site
Episode
1607
HIV/AIDS,
A State of Emergency
Why
have HIV and AIDS become epidemics in our community? Black
Issues Forum host, Jay Holloway, interviews Evelyn Foust,
branch head, NC Department
of Health and Human Services, and Nina Grier, outreach
manager, Glaxo Wellcome,
and asks, "Why are more African-Americans dying from this
deadly disease despite being bombarded with warning messages."
Resources:
NC
Office of Minority Health
National
Minority Aids Council
Episode
1608
Driving
While Black: Know Your Legal Rights
Thousands
of motorists that are men and women of color, specifically
African-Americans and Hispanics, are pulled over on our nation's
highways by police because of racial profiling practices.
What are the North Carolina State Highway Patrol and other
local police departments doing to prevent racial profiling?
And what should you do when you are stopped by a police officer?
Jay Holloway explores the answers to those questions and others
with guests, Senator Frank Balance, Colonel Richard Holden,
head of the NC State Highway Patrol, and Deborah Ross, of
the NC American
Civil Liberties Union.
Episode
1609
Profitability
of Prison Building
North Carolina is one of the top 10 states in the nation in
incarceration rates. It's an attractive selling point for
private for-profit prison builders who enter communities,
especially small rural towns, with promises to bring new jobs
through the creation of a revenue-generating industry, but
how good is it for those towns? State Senator
Frank Ballance and Si Kahn, executive director of Grassroots
Leadership and campaign director for the Public Safety
and Justice Campaign, explain privatization and the prison
industrial complex.
For
additional resources, see "Stopping
For-profit Private Prisons" by Si Kahn and the North
Carolina Department of Corrections.
Episode
1610
Patriotism:
A New Perspective
Pedro McKoy and Larry James join Jay Holloway.
Episode
1611
Managing
Your Money: The Foundation for Financial Freedom
With guests Edward Fulbright and Lorraine McCurdy.
Episode
1612
Creating
Wealth: The Structure for Financial Freedom
Join Jay Holloway with guests Lisa Williams and Butch Haskins.
Entrepreneur Butch Haskins,
co-owner of Haskins & Associates
[note this is a password protected site, to enter use "q.freedom"]
talks about expanding opportunities and benefits of business
ownership with the power of the Internet. Lisa
Williams is a Debt Consultant, Financial Motivator, and
Founder of the Center
for H.O.P.E. and committed to helping women become financially
healthy.
Episode
1613
National
Meeting of the Legislative Black Caucus
This week in Charlotte, the National
Black Caucus of State Legislators is convening for their
24th annual Legislative Conference. Black legislators from
all over the country will meet to discuss the issues they
face. The theme of this year's conference is "African Americans
in the Digital Age: Equity and Access."
Episode 1614
Profile:
Author Mark Mathabane
Author Mark
Mathabane joins Jay Holloway for this episode of Black
Issues Forum. Visit his website at Previewport
where you can join a newsletter and learn more about his books,
including the New York Times Bestseller, "Kaffir Boy."
Episode 1615
Making
Our Kids Top Priority
Jay Holloway is joined by Clarence
Wilkerson, Mitch
Braswell and Mary
Ann Black.
Episode
1616
Black
Business and E-Commerce
Do Black businesses have the vision to see take advantage
of new trends and developments in information technology?
Professionals in industries that thrive on information technology
share their views on how to see the opportunities and move
beyond obstacles.
Guests:
Jerry Fulmer - Manager of Supplier Diversity, Progress Energy
Service
Phyllis Coley Davis - Associate Publisher of the Triangle
Tribune and former Vice President of Consolidated Media Corp
Steve Steele - CEO/President, Acipa Media Inc.
Episode
1617
Just
Released: How to Avoid Going Back
Jay Holloway sits down with Theodis
Beck, Secretary of Correction with the North Carolina
Department of Correction, Zhivago Swinson, an ex-offender
released in 1997 and the owner/operator of the Swinson Commercial
Cleaning Company and Harley Bllard, an ex-offender released
in 1985 who is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Reverend
Al Lawrence of the Prison
Fellowship Ministries, Joseph
Williams of Transition of Prisoners, Inc. and Margie Fair,
an ex-offender released in October, 2000 also appear.
Episode
1618
Individual
Education Program Pitfalls
Doreen
Byrd, a parent and parent education specialist with the Exceptional
Children Assistance Center in Charlotte and Dr.
David Test, a professor of Developmental Education at
UNC-Charlotte are the guests. Parents who educate, raise and
support children with disabilities and professionals who serve
youth with disabilities should visit the Self-Determination
Synthesis Project, a service of UNC-Charlotte.
Doreen
Byrd - 800-962-6817
Dr. David Test - 704-687-3731
Episode 1619
Notes
on Jazz
Notes
on Jazz with Nnenna Freelon
and Stanley
Baird.
Episode
1620
From
Civil Rights to Economic Independence
Host Jay Holloway reflects on the successes of blacks
as a community and as individuals--provided and measured in
part by Civil Rights accomplishments, and examines what will
define and determine success for the black community in the
future. To talk about black gains in terms of civil rights
and financial empowerment are Eleanor
Nunn, a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating
Committee, and Director of the Historical Minority University
Biotechnology Program Initiative at the North Carolina Biotechnology
Center; and Andrea Harris,
President of The North
Carolina Institute of Minority Economic Development, Inc.
Episode
1621
The
Family: Changes and Challenges
Jay
Holloway is joined by Sheila
Bazemore, M.A.Ed., a consultant with the North Carolina
Parenting Education Program, a division of North
Carolina Public Health. Also be sure to visit the North
Carolina Institute for Public Health and the North
Carolina Advocacy Institute.
Episode 1622
Rap
Music: Is it Good for the Soul?
Is
the social impact of Rap music and culture better known as
"Hip Hop" strengthening or damaging the African American community?
We'll talk to professionals in media industry and theory for
a look at the good and the bad, and how much control you really
have to influence this growing culture. Guests include Busta
Brown, a disc jockey and radio personality with the AllStars
Morning Show on 102 Jams Radio on WJMH, Greensboro and James
Heyward, President and CEO of MADDWAXX Records.
Episode 1623
First
African-American Episcopal Bishop in NC
Join
Jay Holloway as he talks to the Right Reverend Michael B.
Curry, the 11th Bishop of the The
Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina. Reverand Curry will
talk about a plan to revitalize the Episcopal Church.
For
more information, see the following web sites:
Bishop's
Ordination and Consecration
The Episcopal Diocese of
North Carolina
Episode 1624
The
Digital Divide's Educational Impact
There's been a great deal of discussion around the topic of
the digital divide, but how severe is the divide, who's being
shut out, and what's really being done in North Carolina to
close it? Jay Holloway talks to the former advisor to the
Governor on science and technology, an entrepreneur who runs
of one of the few black-owned high-tech construction companies
in the southeast, and a black worker who said good-bye to
his blue-collar job and joined the ranks of professionals
working in information technology and training. Joining Jay
are Jane Smith Patterson,
Executive Director of The
Rural Internet Access Authority, and Jesse
Mayo, A+ Certified Instructor, EnVisionary Technology,
Inc.
Episode
1625
"Giving
Back"
Meet two African American philanthropists, Moses Mathis, Executive
Director, Tiffany Pines Community Center in Fayetteville,
NC, and Felton Capel President/CEO Century Associates of North
Carolina, who are both giving back to their community and
making a positive difference.
For
information about the bicycle and computers donation program,
go to www.thebicycleman.com.
Episode
1626
Cultural
Clashes in the Workplace
Has cultural diversity in the workplace gotten out of hand,
or is it time YOU had an attitude adjustment? Satana
Deberry, attorney with Self-Help,
Inc. in North Carolina, and Keitha
Wright, the Diversity Prime at Nortel
Networks, share their views.
Episode 1627
Black
Homebuying Challenges and Opportunities
Christopher Cruise,
a mortgage broker for Cruise & Company, Satana
Deberry, attorney with Self-Help,
Inc., and Anthony Johnson, a real estate investing consultant
for Nu Capital Management and Consulting Co., say it's time
to move beyond "renters" mentality and homebuying obstacles
such housing discrimination, and embrace strategies for empowering
oneself as a potential homeowner.
Episode 1628
Mental
Health in the Black Community
It's one of the leading causes of disability and premature
mortality among Americans...second only to cardiovascular
conditions, but less than half of Americans diagnosed actually
seek treatment. This episode talks with Mrs.
Dorothy James, the mother of twin sons diagnosed with
schizophrenia, and George Jackson, Ph.D., a fourth year psychiatry resident at Duke
University, who helps explain how aspects and of culture
my help or hinder African Americans coping with mental health
issues. Rebroadcast of March 23, 2001
For
additional resources on mental health, see National
Institute of Mental Health and North
Carolina Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association.
Episode
1629
Tina
Andrews
She's one of the hottest, most highly-demanded screenwriters
in Hollywood. Hollywood screenwriter/producer and NAACP Image
Award winner Tina Andrews
talks about her
life, her climb to success in a white male dominated industry
and her upcoming projects. Works to her credit include the
award-winning CBS miniseries "Sally Hemings: An American Scandal,"
the film, "Why Do Fools Fall in Love," and the CBS miniseries,
"Jackie Bouvier Kennedy Onassis." (photo)
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