For over 50 years PBS and NPR, has provided a real resource to the black community in ways that cannot be fully apreciated
Every true Black leader, known scholar, African freedom fighter, every activist in the Black Power Struggle the Civil Rights Struggle and the Afrocentric and Black Arts Movement,
have been rpesented to the Black community over these television and radio stations,
and now that so many Black stations are disapearing or selling out
these venues have become the criteria of last resort, for dissemnating serious and important info to the national and even international black community
Where else will there be childrens educational programs, like Sesame Street( while Oz was alive), Electric Company and Zoom and adult education programs, like Famous Amos reading program, adn in the 60s Dr Clarke's "Studies in African history"
Where else will there be a place where African music and dance, will get exposure?
Jazz and black folk music and spoken Word, and new vangaurd sisters and brothers in film and theater production.
This is not some "hand out" this is something you and I , pay for with our tax dollars and many of us give donations as well
It has been legislated to be axed, by 2013
yes the writing is on the wall in regards to black nationalism and the imperative we all knew 20 years ago of having our own radio and television stations
but the clock waits for no one, and if we fail to plan we plan to fail
Every true Black leader, known scholar, African freedom fighter, every activist in the Black Power Struggle the Civil Rights Struggle and the Afrocentric and Black Arts Movement,
have been rpesented to the Black community over these television and radio stations,
and now that so many Black stations are disapearing or selling out
these venues have become the criteria of last resort, for dissemnating serious and important info to the national and even international black community
Where else will there be childrens educational programs, like Sesame Street( while Oz was alive), Electric Company and Zoom and adult education programs, like Famous Amos reading program, adn in the 60s Dr Clarke's "Studies in African history"
Where else will there be a place where African music and dance, will get exposure?
Jazz and black folk music and spoken Word, and new vangaurd sisters and brothers in film and theater production.
This is not some "hand out" this is something you and I , pay for with our tax dollars and many of us give donations as well
It has been legislated to be axed, by 2013
yes the writing is on the wall in regards to black nationalism and the imperative we all knew 20 years ago of having our own radio and television stations
but the clock waits for no one, and if we fail to plan we plan to fail
