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American Black Journal 50th Anniversary Celebration

<p style="text-align: left;">American Black Journal marked its 50th anniversary in 2018. The show has been a respected platform for the African American perspective since 1968. Detroit PBS celebrated this milestone with a special anniversary event at Detroit’s Garden Theater. Hosted by Stephen Henderson, the night honored American Black Journal’s legacy with special guest interviews, archival footage from past shows and musical performances.</p>

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.detroitdesign139.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Detroit Design 139</a> is a partnership that aims to create and advocate for the design of a future Detroit that&#8217;s inclusive of all residents.  Representatives from the design collective talk with Stephen about their upcoming initiatives that focus on the city&#8217;s built and natural environments.  Plus, the 13th annual <a href="https://www.arisedetroit.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ARISE Detroit!</a> Neighborhoods Day is coming up on August 3rd. We&#8217;ll hear what&#8217;s planned for this massive, annual event that stretches across the city of Detroit and involves thousands of volunteers and hundreds of activities.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: Detroit Design 139 Exhibition, Photo courtesy of Detroit Design 139 media room</em></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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7/21/19: American Black Journal – Detroit Design 139 / ARISE Detroit! Neighborhoods Day

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
<p>The 110th annual <a href="https://www.naacp.org/latest/naacp-host-110th-national-convention-detroit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NAACP National Convention</a> is coming to Detroit this month. The Detroit Branch NAACP President, <a href="https://www.naacp.org/naacp-board-of-directors/reverend-wendell-anthony/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rev. Wendell Anthony</a>, talks with Stephen about this year&#8217;s speakers, activities and agenda. Plus, the <a href="http://concertofcolors.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Concert of Colors</a> is underway in Detroit. Concert founder, <a href="https://wdet.org/author/51/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ismael Ahmed</a> talks about this annual celebration of diversity in music. </p>
<p><em>Featured Image: The <a href="http://www.kaypacha.com.ar/en/instruments/kora.htm" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kora</a>; a harp-lute used by Mandingo peoples in West Africa, Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/babasteve/178092356/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Steve Evans</a> via flickr.com cc 2.0</em> </p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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7/14/19: American Black Journal – NAACP National Convention / Concert of Colors

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
<p>Two African American female poets honored by the <a href="http://www.kresgeartsindetroit.org/2019/06/20/congratulations-to-the-2019-kresge-artist-fellows-and-gilda-award-recipients" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kresge Arts in Detroit</a> initiative talk about the inspiration behind their literary works. Plus, a former urban school administrator writes about her experiences in a new book titled, &#8220;<a href="https://www.newswire.com/news/shelley-mcintosh-ed-d-s-new-book-a-principals-tale-is-a-profound-20424871" target="_blank" rel="noopener">A Principal&#8217;s Tale: Life in 31 Days</a>.&#8221;</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/langston-hughes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Langston Hughes</a>, Image by artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winold_Reiss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Winold Reiss</a>, wikimedia via United States Library of Congress</em> </p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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7/7/19: American Black Journal – Kresge Eminent Artist & Kresge Artist Fellow / A Principal’s Tale

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.nso-mi.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Neighborhood Service Organization</a> breaks ground on a project that will change the conversation about <a href="http://homelessadvice.com/5-reasons-why-the-homeless-have-shopping-carts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">homelessness</a> in Detroit. We&#8217;ll get details on the sustainable campus that will provide a variety of support services at one location for the homeless.  Plus, we&#8217;ll talk about the issues surrounding the division of <a href="https://www.apnews.com/6ee0e5f7bd1946438ec9046944bddd60" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aretha Franklin&#8217;s estate</a> and why everyone should have a will.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: The Homeless, Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/daquellamanera/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Lobo</a> via flickr.com cc 1.0</em><br /> </p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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6/30/19: American Black Journal – NSO Clay Center / Estate Planning

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
<p>&nbsp;<br />A new exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum focuses on the <a href="https://nlbm.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Negro Leagues</a>&#8216; professional baseball team, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Stars" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Detroit Stars</a>.  This year marks the 100th anniversary of the founding of the team, which featured legendary outfielder, Norman &#8220;Turkey&#8221; Stearnes. Stephen talks with Stearne&#8217;s daughter, Joyce, and members of the Detroit Black Historic Sites Committee, Detroit Historical Society, and Friends of Historic <a href="https://www.hamtramckstadium.org/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Hamtramck Stadium</a>, where the Detroit Stars played ball. Plus, a crowdfunding campaign is in the homestretch for the Detroit Public Schools Foundation.  We&#8217;ll get an update on the fundraiser from the organization&#8217;s CEO.<br />&nbsp;<br /><em>Featured Image: Detroit Stars Exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum, Photo by Michael Sellers</em><br />&nbsp;</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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6/23/19: American Black Journal – Negro Leagues & Detroit Stars Exhibit / DPS Foundation

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
<p>&nbsp;<br />
The <a href="https://www.rbhalloffame.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame</a> gears up for a weekend of activities in Detroit on June 21-23, including its 8th annual Induction Ceremony. Another highlight is the re-naming of Parkside Street to <a href="https://michiganchronicle.com/2019/05/14/get-ready-david-ruffin-avenue-is-coming-to-detroit/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">David Ruffin Avenue</a>. Stephen talks with Ruffin&#8217;s daughter, Cheryl, along with the founder of the R&amp;B Hall of Fame, former Harlem Globetrotter LaMont &#8220;Showboat&#8221; Robinson.  Plus, award-winning bassist and Detroit native <a href="https://www.roberthurst.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Robert Hurst</a> talks about his upcoming <a href="https://www.juneteenthmusicfestival.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Juneteenth Jazz Concert</a> at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History.<br />
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<em>Featured Image: Closeup of hands playing an electric guitar, Photo by Unknown via pxhere.com cc 0.0</em><br />
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.<br />
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<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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6/16/19: American Black Journal – National Rhythm and Blues Hall of Fame / Juneteenth at the Wright Museum

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
<p>&nbsp;<br />
Stephen is at the <a href="http://www.detroitchamber.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Detroit Regional Chamber</a>&#8216;s <a href="http://www.detroitchamber.com/mpc/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Mackinac Policy Conference</a> for a wide-ranging interview with Democratic political strategist and <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/donna-brazile-why-i-am-excited-to-join-fox-news-and-take-part-in-a-civil-and-sensible-debate" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Fox News contributor</a> <a href="http://donnabrazile.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Donna Brazile</a>. Their conversation runs the gamut from the current political landscape and President Trump to her decision to contribute reports on Fox News.<br />
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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6/9/19: American Black Journal – Donna Brazile, Democratic Political Strategist

2019-05-23_1711

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
<p><span>A Harlem-based program that puts books in barbershops launches in Detroit.  We&#8217;ll get details on how the initiative is aimed at improving literacy rates for African-American boys. Plus, the Detroit Chapter president of the National Association of Black Women in Construction talks about how her organization provides a voice &#8212; and opportunities &#8211; for females in a male-dominated industry.  And, we&#8217;ll air a short documentary that&#8217;s making the rounds at local film festivals. It&#8217;s about a Detroit boxing coach who provides life lessons to the young students he trains. </span></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></p>
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5/26/19: American Black Journal – Barbershop Books / National Association of Black Women in Construction

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
<p><span>Detroit&#8217;s oldest Black-owned funeral home celebrates its 100th year in business. Stephen talks with the third and fourth generation family members who are running the business today. Plus, there&#8217;s a new online tool that will help parents find programs to keep their children engaged and active in educational activities during the summer break.</span></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56. <a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></p>
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5/19/19: American Black Journal – James H. Cole Home for Funerals / Summer Spark

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
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Stephen gets a one-on-one tour of the exhibition at the Charles H. Wright Museum that has stirred protests in the African-American community.  The exhibit, &#8220;<strong><a href="http://thewright.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=762">Slavery at Jefferson&#8217;s Monticello: Paradox of Liberty</a></strong>,&#8221; explores the lives of the enslaved people on Thomas Jefferson&#8217;s plantation. Stephen talks with the museum&#8217;s CEO and with a member of the community coalition opposed to the exhibit.</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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5/12/19: American Black Journal – Slavery At Jefferson’s Monticello: Paradox Of Liberty

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<h2> Next on One Detroit:</h2>
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<p>• JUDGE DAMON KEITH: The One Detroit team remembers the life and legacy of federal judge and civil rights icon, the <a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/04/28/718077751/judge-damon-j-keith-judicial-giant-and-civil-rights-icon-dies-at-96">Hon. Damon Keith</a>. Nolan and Stephen talk about his impact on the next generation of leaders, and we look back at a 2014 one-on-one interview Stephen had with Judge Keith on American Black Journal.<br /> • PACKARD PLANT: This special report from Daily Detroit looks at where things stand with the long-awaited re-development plans for the old <a href="http://packardplantproject.com/index.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Packard Plant in Detroit</a>.<br /> • BROOKS LUMBER &amp; HARDWARE: In a One Detroit report, we visit a Detroit hardware store that has been in business since 1896. A longtime employee of Brooks Lumber &amp; Hardware gives a tour and offers insight on how the store has survived for more than 120 years.</p>
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<h2>Watch for upcoming videos:</h2>
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<p>Watch <a href="http://www.miweek.org/live">One Detroit </a>every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. on WTVS &#8211; Detroit Public Television.</p>
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5/2/19: One Detroit – Judge Damon Keith / Packard Plant / Brooks Lumber & Hardware

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal,</h2>
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We&#8217;ll remember federal judge and civil rights champion, the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/28/obituaries/damon-keith-dies-at-96.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Hon. Damon Keith</a>, when he sat down with Stephen in 2014 for a rare one-on-one interview.  Plus, internationally acclaimed artist <a href="https://www.cbibbs.com/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Charles Bibbs</a> talks about his unique work and the impact of African American art.  And, <a href="https://www.focushope.edu/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Focus: HOPE</a> is recruiting Detroiters for its free job training program.  We&#8217;ll find out what it takes to enroll and the types of job opportunities it can lead to.<br />
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<em>Featured Image: Evolution Of The Adorning Glory, Image courtesy of Charles Bibbs</em><br />
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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5/5/19: American Black Journal – Judge Damon Keith / African American Art / Focus: HOPE

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<p>Detroit&#8217;s own civil rights icon, federal judge Damon Keith, passed away this weekend. He was 96. One Detroit contributor, Stephen Henderson sat down with Judge Damon Keith in 2014 for an in-depth interview on his career, his life, and his biography, &#8220;Crusader for Justice: Federal Judge Damon J. Keith&#8221;.</p>
<p>Watch the entire interview here:</p>
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<p>In his op-ed, One Detroit&#8217;s Nolan Finley reflected on Judge Damon Keith&#8217;s legacy. He writes, &#8220;The late Judge Damon Keith was descended from people for whom the United States Constitution and its Bill of Rights were hollow words formed from lofty ideals that didn’t apply to them.</p>
<p>Yet if you walk into any federal courthouse, and countless other public and private offices throughout the country, the plaque on the wall commemorating the 200th anniversary of those documents bears the name of Detroit’s Judge Damon J. Keith, who served as chairman of the bicentennial.</p>
<p>Rather than rejecting the Constitution for its hypocrisy, Keith spent a lifetime wielding it as a weapon against racism, segregation and discrimination.&#8221;</p>
<p>Read the entire article here: <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2019/04/28/finley-damon-keith-spent-lifetime-fighting-justice/3608654002/"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://www.detroitpbs.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/detroitnews.png" alt="" width="41" height="34" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-3878"></a></p>
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Crusader for Justice: Judge Damon Keith

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p><a href="http://detroitnaacp.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Branch</a> <a href="https://www.naacp.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NAACP</a> President <a href="http://fellowshipchapel.org/ministers-and-staff/rev-dr-wendell-anthony/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rev. Wendell Anthony</a> talks with Stephen about next month&#8217;s <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2019/03/26/kamala-harris-speak-naacp-detroit-dinner/3275045002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">64th Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner</a>, which features a celebrity red carpet and keynote speaker, presidential hopeful <a href="https://kamalaharris.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala Harris</a>.&nbsp; Plus, Rev. Charles G. Adams of Detroit&#8217;s <a href="http://hmbcdetroit.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hartford Memorial Baptist Church</a> celebrates 50 years as pastor. Stephen talks with Rev. Adams&#8217; son and co-pastor about his father&#8217;s accomplishments and contributions to the community.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image:&nbsp;U.S. Senator Kamala Harris at the 2018 Los Angeles <a href="https://www.blackculturalevents.com/event/33rd-annual-kingdom-day-parade-la/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kingdom Day Parade</a>, Photo by harris.senate.gov</em></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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4/21/19: American Black Journal – NAACP Fight for Freedom Fund Dinner / Reverend Charles G. Adams 50th Anniversary

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>The <a href="https://www.everyschooldaycountsdetroit.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Every School Day Counts Detroit</a> campaign is part of a <a href="https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2009/attendancedata/chapter1a.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">national initiative</a> to combat chronic student absences, which tend to peak after spring break. The campaign includes a citywide student-to-student &#8220;challenge&#8221; demonstrating reasons to be engaged and present at school.&nbsp; Plus, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy and her father Clifford talk with Stephen about Clifford&#8217;s new autobiography detailing the segregation and other struggles he experienced at <a href="https://www.ebony.com/news/west-point-racism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">West Point</a> and in the Army.</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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4/14/19: American Black Journal – Every School Day Counts Detroit / The Black Knight

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>A special roundtable on some of the top local and national headlines, including the murder of Grammy-nominated rapper <a href="https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2019/04/03/hundreds-mourn-slain-rapper-nipsey-hussle-detroit/3348715002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nipsey Hussle</a> and how he was trying to stop gun and gang violence in his community  . . . The City of Detroit&#8217;s plans to fight crime by expanding <a href="https://www.govtech.com/public-safety/Detroit-Rallies-Support-for-Citywide-Surveillance-Network.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">camera surveillance</a> to the neighborhoods . . .  and President Trump&#8217;s latest move in his efforts to replace the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/02/us/politics/obamacare-donald-trump.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Affordable Care Act</a>.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: Nipsey Hussle, I Don&#8217;t Stress Album Cover</em></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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4/7/19: American Black Journal – Roundtable Special

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>A Detroit Free Press analysis of mortgage data shows a small number of Blacks are getting mortgages in Detroit. We&#8217;ll talk about the racial disparities in lending and the state of the mortgage market in the city.  Plus, two local African-American chefs join Stephen to talk about the impact of Detroit&#8217;s burgeoning restaurant scene on Black-owned restaurants.</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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3/31/19: American Black Journal – Detroit Mortgages / Black Chefs

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>The new CEO of the <a href="http://www.degc.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Economic Growth Corporation</a>, Kevin Johnson, talks with Stephen about his vision and priorities for driving investment, creating jobs and growing Detroit&#8217;s economy.  Plus, we&#8217;ll get details on the Detroit-area&#8217;s largest <a href="https://www.bookstockmi.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">used book and media</a> sale that&#8217;s raising money for local education and literacy projects.</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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3/24/19: American Black Journal – Detroit Economic Growth Corporation / Bookstock 2019

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>The 5th annual <a href="https://leegroupinnovation.com/small-business-workshop-may-7-2019/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Small Business Workshop</a> is coming up in May, and this year&#8217;s theme focuses on how small <a href="https://shoppeblack.us/2018/01/hm-alternatives/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">business owners</a> can navigate changes in the economy and other challenges. Plus, we&#8217;ll learn about <a href="https://freshnation.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fresh Nation</a>, a training program in communications and broadcast technology for young people.</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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3/17/19: American Black Journal – Small Business Workshop / Fresh Nation

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<p>American Black Journal contributor Chastity Pratt Dawsey sits down for a one-on-one interview with world renown tap dancer Savion Glover. Check out the extended interview below:</p>
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<p><strong>Interview Transcript:</strong></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:00:00] That&#8217;s interesting but&#8230; it&#8217;s interesting. You remember what it was. Still same step. I can do it many different ways.</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:00:17] Savion Glover you are in Detroit. So I have to ask your Detroit story. Everybody has a Detroit story. What do you like about Detroit. What have you done while you&#8217;ve been here. Give us a little something.</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:00:32] Man. Well, I have family here. I immediately think about my family here.</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:00:36] Really?</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:00:37] And, uh&#8230; yeah, you know. Detroit&#8230; man, you know I&#8217;ve been here for a couple of festivals. I&#8217;ve had some life changing&#8230; changing experiences here through relationships. Detroit. Yeah it&#8217;s it&#8217;s&#8230; it&#8217;s monumental.</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:00:56] OK so let&#8217;s talk a little bit about what we&#8217;re doing here at the Detroit School of Arts. What are you teaching? Who you teaching it to?</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:01:04] I am right now, um&#8230; under the honorable service of a group from the local area and then surrounding. Tap dancers. All ages. I think it may be the young is possibly 10. And then the oldest being as old as I am. I was saying yesterday it is my proud privilege to be at a point in my life where I can say I&#8217;m here in support of the present movement. In support of the present energy. I&#8217;m here beyond, um&#8230; the entertainer. I&#8217;m here beyond the celebrity. Um, so I&#8217;m here for the Carr Center. And I&#8217;m here for everything that the Carr Center is about. This particular day hap&#8230; happens to be our sessions. Our tap sessions before the performance. And again I&#8217;m just..you know&#8230; the teaching is sharing. Tap dancing is my life. So at this point my teachings are that of ways to live. Life lessons that have been afforded the wonderful opportunity to learn and then act upon. So I&#8217;m just sharing those little&#8230; I guess tools and antidotes.</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:02:46] So I was in the hallway and my daughter is a dancer and I saw one of her friends who has the opportunity to be in this class and she said that there was&#8230; um, you know, a lot of talking and you were telling them to be themselves. The message. What is&#8230; you know, give us some of the messages that you shared with the kids. How do you&#8230; how do you be yourself as a dancer? How do you bring that into art?</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:03:12] Well it&#8217;s like I said. Again, I understand the climate of this world right now. I understand the, um&#8230; I understand what I know to be true. And again it&#8217;s just my proud privilege to take advantage of my time with people who are responsible for our tomorrow. And a lot of the young thinkers in here&#8230; thinkers in here are responsible. So tap dance becomes the vehicle, you know, but the message is not only be a great tap dancer, but be present today. Be yourself. Know how to express yourself today, in this climate, in this now. Be a voice. I don&#8217;t care if you five or seven or fifty. Exist. And if it takes a tap class for us to be reminded that&#8230; &#8220;Oh, it&#8217;s important that I say something. It&#8217;s important that I recognize that I got to move too. In the climate of this today. So I&#8217;m happy to do that through tap dancing. Express yourself. Not only as a tap dancer but as a human being.</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:04:55] So, I think there are a lot of people who, like me, obviously remember you as that little kid dancing way Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis, Jr. And now, you know, you&#8217;ve grown up in the art and you&#8217;re teaching. Talk about what it takes to become that seasoned veteran in&#8230; in tap. In dance. You know, what&#8217;s that key to longevity?</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:05:30] Well I don&#8217;t know. I don&#8217;t know. All I know is that tap dancing, as far as longevity&#8230; the longevity is life. I don&#8217;t&#8230; uh, you know, just live life as far as that part of the question. But, you know, it&#8217;s similar to some of the things I&#8217;m sharing with the students, you know. My life&#8230; this is my life, really.</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:05:53] But everybody can&#8217;t last as long in the game, right?</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:05:58] Well everybody can&#8217;t last here. [maybe? talking over each other here].</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:06:00] You won a Tony and you still do this every day.</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:06:03] Yeah, because I have to live like you&#8230; you&#8230; you and those of us who are&#8230; continue to do have a chance to enjoy my experience here. I am what you see. I&#8217;m not what you see. I am it. So as I am trapped in this now my voice is my job. And my job happens to be a celebrity. But really my life is in there which is tap dancing. And I have a relationship with tap dancing that has nothing to do with anything else. So it&#8217;s&#8230; it&#8217;s curious to figure out this now and this&#8230; and this presence. And then why, you know, the teaching, you know, why I feel that again it&#8217;s necessary for me to&#8230; as a tap dancer, of course you know, it&#8217;s all one. As I&#8217;m passing on this information through tap dancing I&#8217;m Also passing along the importance of information. You know, as I tell these children about Lon Cheney and Chuck Green and Jimmy Slyde and Gregory Hines and all these great contributors there&#8217;s also something else there. You know, I mean, I don&#8217;t know what it is. Sometimes I do. But I know that it&#8217;s not just simply because it&#8217;s going to allow them to be a better tap dancer.</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:07:57] Well tell me this. What do you see as the place for tap and American culture now? Because&#8230; I ask that because, you know, it appears to me as a dance mom that&#8230; you know, you have this show, oh, &#8220;So You Think You Can Dance.&#8221; and you have Tapology which is a big festival here in Michigan the kids all go to. You know you have these competitions kids&#8230; It seems to me that tap is more, um, part of pop culture. You tell me. Do you feel that? That tap is not so much, you know, the&#8230; you know, respectable art form and something that, you know, was more esoteric but now pop culture? What do you think?</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:08:42] Yeah. It&#8217;s, um&#8230; it&#8217;s an interesting topic. It&#8217;s interesting topic. And again the short version is it&#8230; it&#8217;s all about your relationship with whatever this thing is that we are doing. You know, the relationship brings politics and politics brings judgment and judgment brings&#8230; oh, right and wrong and rule and law and then&#8230; this guy. So, um&#8230;</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:09:09] But do you think it&#8217;s more pop culture-ish to tap dance now than it used to be?</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:09:16] Again, I&#8230; me being a tap dancer, you know, I can say I came up as a tap dancer in the early&#8230; like, late 70s and then early 80s on. So the climate was again different. There was, uh&#8230; in my surroundings, in my environment, my mother exposed us to the stuff that&#8230; the culture my mother&#8230;</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:09:54] The arts.</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:09:54] Yeah. The arts and whatever I need to be responsible for as a human being existed under her watch. She made us aware of that. So there was music in my home. My mother&#8217;s a singer. My grandmother ministered music. My great-grandfather played piano all around the world. My great&#8230; uh, my grandfather on my mother&#8217;s&#8230; my mother&#8217;s father played piano. So the music was always in my house so I was always aware of this thing that maybe had been a dying art form which was tapdancing. It was in the culture. It was a part of something we did. It was a part of something we knew about. Did I know about the cats? No, I didn&#8217;t know about Jimmy Slyde or Lon Cheney until later on. But, stick&#8230; sticking to your point, like, as far as the popularity of it&#8230; Well it was always popular in my life. But next door, they probably had no interest in it until probably 30 years later. And now a show like&#8230; one of these shows that you mentioned is on and they see, &#8220;Oh, tapdancing is alive again.&#8221; But meanwhile it&#8217;s been next door&#8230; it has been right next door, there hasn&#8217;t just been the interest. So it&#8217;s always about what&#8217;s&#8230; again, popular. It depends on who&#8217;s talking about it.</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:11:17] There you go. Well let&#8217;s talk about&#8230;</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:11:18] But I will say&#8230; I will say, and I&#8217;m I&#8217;m glad&#8230; not to cut you off&#8230;</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:11:24] No no no, you&#8217;re okay.</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:11:25] But I will say that I am with you. If I heard that you agree that this art form should be one of those that is more sacred in its preserve. Not everyone not everywhere not for any reason should it be available.</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:11:55] It&#8217;s not for everybody. Everybody can&#8217;t do right, right?</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:11:59] Yeah, you know but not only right. It&#8217;s not about right or wrong. But it&#8217;s just&#8230; you ain&#8217;t doing that. That ain&#8217;t in you.</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:12:09] So&#8230; but let&#8217;s talk about why you are here for those of us who weren&#8217;t able to see you at the Carr Center in a percussion conversation&#8230; that right there, a percussion conversation&#8230; with Dee Dee Bridgewater scatting and Terry Lane Carrington drumming and you tapping. What is that about? Just how just how do you put together a percussion conversation with a scatter, a drummer, and a tapper?</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:12:39] Well, first of all, Dee Dee Bridgewater is much more than a scatter.</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:12:44] Oh yeah, I get that.</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:12:45] But She&#8217;s&#8230; what she&#8217;s what she&#8217;s doing is&#8230;</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:12:47] She is doing it for that.</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:12:47] &#8230;much more than scatting. I mean, again, that&#8217;s a&#8230; that&#8217;s a convenient word to use&#8230;</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:12:55] Vocals.</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:12:55] to describe her&#8230; to describe her contribution to what it is we live in. Um, so&#8230; but let&#8217;s address that first. But secondly, it&#8217;s&#8230; man, again, it&#8217;s an ongoing conversation. It&#8217;s an ongoing display of communication. It&#8217;s a conversation on display.</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:13:20] It&#8217;s improvisation too, right?</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:13:22] Mostly so. Yes, yes. Mostly improvisational. And um, you know, again to be perfectly honest with you I don&#8217;t&#8230; I don&#8217;t like, you know, much rehearsal. Tonight I&#8217;m trying to avoid some rehearsals that she&#8217;s got us into. You know, because you can&#8217;t rehearse now. You can&#8217;t rehearse what&#8217;s going to happen now. You can think about it and do all this stuff but, the&#8230; It&#8217;s like what we create is a phrase like percussion discussion. It&#8217;s just a continuation of&#8230; hey you got an idea. I got an idea. My idea ain&#8217;t working right now. Oh, I know a route. Oh, you got some gas or we need to go over here to get gas. Well that one&#8217;s not gonna work. Well maybe we need to go back. I got a plan.</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:14:17] So the&#8230; the tap dancing and the vocals and the drum all playing off each other.</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:14:23] Yeah, everybody&#8217;s doing this. But we all know where we want to go. We know&#8230; we know what we want to achieve. But the journey is what you get to experience as a performance.</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:14:35] Well you know what? It&#8217;s truly it&#8217;s right to have Savion Glover in Detroit. Percussion Discussion.</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:14:43] Happy to be here.</p>
<p><em><strong>Chastity Pratt Dawsey:</strong> [00:14:43] Thank you so much for being with us.</em></p>
<p><strong>Savion Glover:</strong> [00:14:45] Please. Thank you.</p>
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Savion Glover | Extended Interview

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>We&#8217;ll talk about the need for more diversity and inclusion in the automotive industry, specifically as it relates to auto dealers. And we&#8217;ll look at the importance of <a href="http://www.namad.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">minority dealers</a> and operators developing <a href="https://www.aarp.org/politics-society/history/info-2016/successful-black-owned-businesses-photo.html#slide1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">multi-generational businesses</a>.  Plus, ABJ contributor Chastity Pratt Dawsey sits down for a one-on-one interview with world renown tap dancer <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Savion-Glover" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Savion Glover</a>. He talks about his career, his Detroit workshops, and the art and future of tap dancing.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: Fredrick Patterson of  <a href="https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/only-african-american-automobile-company" target="_blank" rel="noopener">C.R. Patterson &amp; Sons Company</a>, the first African American-owned automobile manufacturer, Photo courtesy of <a href="https://nmaahc.si.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nmaahc.si.edu</a></em></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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3/10/19: American Black Journal – Minority Auto Dealers / Savion Glover

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WATCH NOW: American Black Journal 50th Anniversary Celebration

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>We&#8217;re at the <a href="http://www.detroitchamber.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Regional Chamber</a>&#8216;s Detroit Policy Conference where business, political and community leaders have gathered to talk about a vision for the city in the next decade. Stephen talks with <a href="https://michronicleonline.com/2019/01/10/charles-h-wright-museum-of-african-american-history-announces-new-ceo-neil-a-barclay/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Neil Barclay</a>, the new CEO of the <a href="https://thewright.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History</a>, about his vision for the museum in the city&#8217;s future. Plus, <a href="https://detroitfuturecity.com/mission/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Future City</a>&#8216;s <a href="https://detroitfuturecity.com/team_member/anika-goss-foster/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Anika Goss</a> talks about a new report on how growing <a href="https://detroitfuturecity.com/middleclassreport/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit&#8217;s African American middle class</a> is key to the city&#8217;s prosperity and growth.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: African American Family At The Church Of The Messiah On Chicago&#8217;s South Side For The Baby&#8217;s Baptism, 08/1973, Photo by John H. White for the <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/albums/72157633309290525" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Documerica Project</a> via <a class="owner-name-with-by truncate no-outline" title="Go to The U.S. National Archives's photostream" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-track="attributionNameClick">The U.S. National Archives</a> </em></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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3/3/19: American Black Journal – The Charles H. Wright Museum / Growing Detroit’s African American middle class

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<p>Check out this clip from <a href="http://www.satorishakoor.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Satori Shakoor</a> (<a href="https://www.twistedtellers.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Secret Society of Storytellers</a>) as she gives a powerful performance during American Black Journal&#8217;s 50th Anniversary Celebration.</p>
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<p>American Black Journal’s celebration at <a href="http://thegardendetroit.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Garden Theater</a> honored 50 years of sharing African American perspectives on Detroit Public Television.</p>
<p>Thanks to all who attended and shared this special evening, our keynote guest <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/meet-black-woman-reclaiming-narrative-civil-war-n782006" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Christy Coleman</a>, CEO of the <a href="https://acwm.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Civil War Museum</a> and to our featured panelists and performing artists, also to our sponsors and partners who helped make the event possible!</p>
<p>If you missed the event, you can watch highlights on DPTV channel 56, March 6 at 7:30 p.m.</p>
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Satori Shakoor | American Black Journal 50th Anniversary Celebration

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<p>On the latest episode of <em><strong>America Black Journal</strong></em>, we take a closer look at the importance and impact of African-American art on the American economy and culture. Stephen Henderson talks to photographic artist <a href="http://www.asiahamilton.photography/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Asia Hamilton</a>, painter <a href="https://www.desireekellyart.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Desiree Kelly</a>, and Painting with a Twist owner Michelle Lewis.</p>
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<p>American Black Journal airs Sundays at 9:30 a.m., repeating on Wednesdays at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public Television.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: Still I Rise, portrait of  Maya Angelou constructed of over 2000+ buttons and jewels by <a href="https://www.artprize.org/67957" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Desiree Kelly</a></em></p>
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Celebrating Black Art

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>Stephen gets details on this year&#8217;s <a href="https://www.miblackleader.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">African American Leadership Awards</a>, which honor the people who work behind the scenes to advance policies and causes in the Black community.  Plus, we take a look at Black artists and the business of creating, collecting and selling <a href="http://nnamdicenter.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">African American art</a>.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: Stagger Lee, 1983, oil on canvas by <a href="http://www.frederickjbrown.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Frederick Brown</a> via <a href="https://americanart.si.edu/art/highlights/african-american?page=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Smithsonian American Art Museum</a></em></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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2/17/19: American Black Journal – African American Leadership Awards / Black Art & Artists

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>Stephen gets details on the special <a href="https://mymodernmet.com/cristi-smith-jones-black-history-month-photo-project/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black History Month</a> programming at the <a href="https://thewright.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles H. Wright Museum</a> of African American History, which includes a book talk and signing and a tribute to Detroit&#8217;s pioneering hip-hop producer <a href="http://www.j-dilla.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">J. Dilla</a>.  Plus, a new book uses DNA evidence and the findings of historians and scientists to prove the presence of people of African descent in <a href="https://bibleisblackhistory.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">biblical history</a>.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: Frederick Douglass, “<a href="http://mentalfloss.com/article/92216/20-powerful-quotes-frederick-douglass" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave</a>.” Engraved by J.C. Buttre from a daguerretotype (public domain)</em></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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2/10/19: American Black Journal – Black History Month at The Wright / The Bible is Black History

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>The <a href="https://wolverinebar.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wolverine Bar Association</a> celebrates 100 years of supporting current and aspiring <a href="https://shoppeblack.us/2018/08/top-black-attorneys/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">African American attorneys</a> in Michigan.  Plus, <a href="http://thecarrcenter.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Carr Center</a> uses African and African American cultural arts programming to entertain, educate and inspire the community.  And, a statewide report details how the arts are impacting Michigan residents and the economy.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: Lady Justice, Blinded to ensure justice for all irrespective of race, gender, wealth or power, Photo by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/sniegowski/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don Sniegowski</a> via flickr.com cc 2.0</em></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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2/3/19: American Black Journal – Wolverine Bar Association / The Carr Center / Creative Many

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<h2>Tonight a special One Detroit | American Black Journal Roadshow:</h2>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="s2"><b>One Detroit</b></span></a> and <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/category/american-black-journal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="s2"><b>American Black Journal</b></span></a><b> </b>present a Solutions Roadshow, recorded at the <a href="http://churchofthemessiahdetroit.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span class="s2"><b>Church of the Messiah</b></span></a> in Detroit’s Islandview neighborhood on Detroit’s east side near the bridge to Belle Isle.</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">For the past year, </span>we’ve been following closely<strong> </strong>what’s going on – residents talking about neighboring, gun violence, supporting local entrepreneurs, affordable housing and more. We continue to listen – and <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/islandview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>report</strong></a>.</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Join us for a conversation with those who call Islandview home: the lessons learned along the way and what they mean to the rest of Detroit.</span></p>
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<h2><a href="https://video.dptv.org/show/miweek/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">View Clips &gt;</a></h2>
<p>Watch <a href="http://www.miweek.org/live">One Detroit</a> every Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and <a href="https://www.detroitpbs.org/category/american-black-journal/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">American Black Journal</a>  every Sunday at 9:30 a.m. on WTVS &#8211; Detroit Public Television.</p>
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1/24/19: One Detroit and American Black Journal Solutions Roadshow

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<p>The non-profit &#8220;<a href="http://brilliantdetroit.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brilliant Detroit</a>&#8221; is on a mission to make sure that families have what they need to prepare their children for school and create a healthy, stable environment. Stephen Henderson speaks with Brilliant Detroit Co-founder &amp; CEO, Cindy Eggleton, community partner Kenyatta Stephens from <a href="http://www.blackfamilydevelopment.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Family Development</a> and Jasmine Mahone a Brilliant Detroit participant, about the organizations unique neighborhood approach to creating successful families.</p>
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<p>American Black Journal airs Wednesdays at 7:30 PM and Sundays at 9:30 AM on <a href="http://www.dptv.org/home/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Public Television</a>.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: Children doing homework, Photo by Brilliant Detroit</em></p>
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Brilliant Detroit | American Black Journal Clip

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>A volunteer <a href="http://www.mlktaskforcemi.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grassroots organization</a> is keeping Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.&#8217;s legacy alive through its annual <a href="https://www.cityofsouthfield.com/NewsEvents/tabid/158/newsid1480/2427/mid/1480/34th-annual-Southfield-MLK-Peace-Walk-Celebration-set-for-Monday-January-21--/Default.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peace Walk</a> in Southfield on the King Holiday.  Nearly 2,000 people take part in the walk, program and tastefest.  Plus, the non-profit organization <a href="http://brilliantdetroit.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brilliant Detroit</a> uses a unique neighborhood approach to creating successful families with children who are ready for school and thriving in a healthy and stable environment.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: Martin Luther King, Jr., Photo by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoichi_Okamoto" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yoichi Okamoto</a>, Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum via wikimedia</em></p>
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<h3>WATCH Now:</h3>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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1/20/19: American Black Journal – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Task Force / Brilliant Detroit

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">A panel of special guests join Stephen for a roundtable on top headlines impacting African Americans in 2019.  We&#8217;ll talk about the new leadership in Lansing. Plus, conversations on the Donald Trump presidency and the growing number of racial profiling and discrimination incidents across the country. </span></p>
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<h3>WATCH VIDEO:</h3>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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1/6/19: American Black Journal – African Americans in 2019 Roundtable

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>As we close out another year of thought-provoking and engaging conversations, Stephen takes a look back at some of these notable interviews. We&#8217;ll hear from rapper and businessman Snoop Dogg, Georgetown professor and author Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Flint Mayor Karen Weaver, and more.  Plus, we&#8217;ll re-visit discussions about President Donald Trump, creating Black business legacies, and celebrities giving back to the community.</p>
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<h3>WATCH VIDEO:</h3>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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12/30/18: American Black Journal – Best of ABJ 2018

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>Stephen has an in-depth conversation with Michigan&#8217;s Lieutenant Governor-Elect <a href="https://www.gretchenwhitmer.com/about/garlin/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Garlin Gilchrist</a>, the first African American to serve in that role. They talk about this history-making accomplishment, his top priorities while in office, and the current political climate locally and nationally.  Plus, we remember Grammy-winning song stylist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Wilson_(jazz_singer)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nancy Wilson</a> in a 1994 interview she did with Detroit Black Journal.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: Michigan Lieutenant Governor-Elect Garlin Gilchrist, Photo by gretchenwhitmer.com</em></p>
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<h3>WATCH NOW:</h3>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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12/23/18: American Black Journal – Michigan Lt. Governor-Elect / Remembering Nancy Wilson

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The new owner of Aretha Franklin&#8217;s Detroit home talks with Stephen about his vision for the historic mansion, the importance of preserving Detroit homes, and African American home ownership.  Plus, families in an east side Detroit neighborhood get access to early childhood education with the opening of the area&#8217;s first &#8220;Birth to 5&#8221; Head Start center. It&#8217;s all part of revitalization efforts in the once thriving community known as Regent Park.</span></p>
<p><em>Featured Image: Kristin Shaw</em></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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12/16/18: American Black Journal – Aretha Franklin’s Detroit Home / “Birth to 5”

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>Community input is being sought on the placement and content for a Michigan Historical Marker in Detroit&#8217;s former <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Bottom,_Detroit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Bottom neighborhood</a>.  The area was home to several African-American businesses, social institutions and nightclubs until it was demolished to make way for the Chrysler Freeway and Lafayette Park in the early 1960s.  Plus, a Detroit-based <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzTmNzBxLEHbpZNOCpUTWbA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">filmmaker</a>&#8216;s short film about bullying, titled &#8220;<a href="https://mmm2weekender.com/2018/09/14/jcp-films-new-short-junior-tackles-bullying-from-the-victims-point-of-view/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Junior</a>,&#8221; has gone viral and earned an award for its young lead actor from Detroit.</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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12/09/18: American Black Journal – Black Bottom Historical Marker / “Junior”

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<p><strong>On the next American Black Journal</strong></p>
<p>Detroit&#8217;s small business funding initiative, &#8220;<a href="http://www.motorcitymatch.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Motor City Match</a>,&#8221; announces its latest round of winners who will share in a $500,000 cash award.  Stephen talks with one of the latest awardees, a previous winner whose business is up and running, and the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation&#8217;s VP of Small Business Services.  Plus, a <a href="http://www.mariomoorestudio.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit artist</a> uses his experiences as a Black man to create a thought-provoking exhibition using a unique art technique.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: Open for business, Photo by <a href="https://www.pexels.com/@kaiquestr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kaique Rocha</a> via pexels.com</em></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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12/02/18: American Black Journal – Motor City Match / Mario Moore

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>This year marks what would have been Detroit <a href="https://michronicleonline.com/2018/05/24/coleman-a-young-a-history-of-the-peoples-mayor/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mayor Coleman Young</a>&#8216;s 100th birthday. Stephen talks with the head of the <a href="http://www.cayf.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Coleman A. Young Foundation</a> about the <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/rochelle-riley/2018/05/24/mayor-coleman-young-rochelle-riley/638902002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mayor&#8217;s legacy</a>, how the foundation is preparing Detroit youth for college and beyond, and an upcoming fundraiser featuring comedian D.L. Hughley.  Plus, a special look at the issue of children frequently changing schools in Detroit. We&#8217;ll share a portion of a WDET/DPTV public discussion about the causes, consequences and possible solutions.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: #GoYoung, Photo by Coleman A. Young Foundation</em></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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11/25/18: American Black Journal – Coleman A. Young / Student Mobility Discussion

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>The head of the <a href="https://www.dwmha.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority</a> talks with Stephen about the state of mental health in the region and how his agency is working to provide a holistic approach to the people it serves. Plus, athletes and other celebrities team up to make sure that metro Detroit residents in need have access to a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. We&#8217;ll tell you about the <a href="http://www.tarencewheelerfoundation.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">All-Star Giveback</a> taking place in River Rouge.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: Volunteer of the Year Tarence Wheeler, Photo by michigan.gov</em></p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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11/18/18: American Black Journal – DETROIT WAYNE MENTAL HEALTH AUTHORITY / ALL-STAR GIVEBACK

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><a href="http://www.wcccd.edu/">Wayne County Community College District</a> enters into a new partnership with Rev. Jesse Jackson&#8217;s international social justice organization, Rainbow PUSH. The collaboration will help  create career opportunities in the mobility industry for people of color. Plus, playwright and Detroit native <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dominique.morisseau">Dominique Morisseau</a> talks with Stephen about her latest stage plays and the prestigious award she just received. </span></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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11/11/18: American Black Journal – WCCCD and Rainbow PUSH Mobility Partnership / Dominique Morisseau

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>Detroit&#8217;s <a href="https://wayne.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wayne State University</a> is celebrating a major milestone as it welcomes a huge, new financial gift from a married couple who are former WSU students.  Plus, people with <a href="https://www.aapd.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disabilities</a>, senior citizens and veterans work to make sure political candidates hear their concerns this election year.  And, the CEO of <a href="http://www.goodwill.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Goodwill Industries</a> talks with Stephen about how his organization is preparing Detroiters for the workforce.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: Wayne State University&#8217;s Old Main, Photo by Del arte via wikimedia</em></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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11/4/18: American Black Journal – Wayne State University 150th Anniversary / Disability Network/ Goodwill of Greater Detroit

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>An unprecedented philanthropic commitment by <a href="https://www.crainsdetroit.com/education/kresge-puts-50-million-behind-marygrove-cradle-college-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Kresge Foundation</a> is creating a &#8220;<a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/education/2018/09/12/school-campus-marygrove-college/1272309002/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cradle-to-college</a>&#8221; educational center at Detroit&#8217;s <a href="https://www.marygrove.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marygrove College</a>. Stephen talks with some of the key partners in this new collaboration. Plus, in a special <a href="https://www.detroitperforms.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Performs</a> report, we meet a spoken word artist who is educating Detroit children on the power of writing and words.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: A student in the audience waves during First Lady Michelle Obama&#8217;s remarks for the Tuskegee University, Photo by Chuck Kennedy via <a href="https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">obamawhitehouse.archives.gov</a></em></p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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10/28/18: American Black Journal P-20 Educational Partnership / Spoken Word Artist

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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>The <a href="http://detroitnaacp.org/about/branch-history/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Branch NAACP</a> launches its &#8220;Take Your Soles to the Polls&#8221; campaign. <a href="http://fellowshipchapel.org/ministers-and-staff/rev-dr-wendell-anthony/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rev. Dr. Wendell Anthony</a> talks with Stephen about efforts to increase voter turnout in Detroit next month.  Plus, details on how entrepreneurs can do business with Wayne County and get expert advice on gaining access to financing.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: Civil Rights in America: Racial Voting Rights, Photo by National Park Service</em></p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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10/21/18: Take your soles to the polls / Wayne County business resource network roundtable

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<p>It’s been 25 years since a young rapper named <a href="http://snoopdogg.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Snoop Dogg</a> burst onto the scene with his first album. Since then, he’s built a resume that includes film, television, internet projects, and charitable work in the community. His latest venture is a stage musical titled, &#8220;<a href="https://jecaryous.com/tour/redemption-of-a-dogg/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Redemption of a Dogg</a>&#8221; and will take on a 10 city tour. Stephen Henderson talks to Snoop about the upcoming play.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: Album cover Neva Left by the artist Snoop Dogg, Photo by Doggystyle Records</em></p>
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<h2>On the next American Black Journal</h2>
<p>Legendary rapper Snoop Dogg talks with Stephen about his theatrical debut in the stage play, &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4STmK-az1vg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Redemption of a Dogg</a>,&#8221; which features some of his greatest hits.  Plus, they talk about Snoop&#8217;s 25-year musical career and how the industry has changed. Plus, award-winning author and poet Quincy Troupe stops by to talk about being the featured Literary Artist-in-Residence in a program led by the Charles H. Wright Museum and the Detroit Institute of Arts.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: Redemption of a Dogg, Courtesy of Linda Stewart</em></p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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10/14/18: REDEMPTION OF A DOGG / LITERARY ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE PROGRAM (DIA / WRIGHT MUSEUM)

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<p>On the next American Black Journal, Chastity Pratt Dawsey talks with <a href="http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/local-news/retired-fox-2-reporter-al-allen-pens-new-memoir-we-re-standing-by-" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Al Allen</a>, one of Detroit&#8217;s most well-known television news reporters, about his new book, &#8220;We&#8217;re Standing By.&#8221;  Now retired, Allen&#8217;s book chronicles the stories he covered, reveals details about his family life, and describes his passion for mentoring <a href="https://www.nabj.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">African American journalists</a>. Plus, the <a href="http://www.detroitsportszone.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Detroit Sports Zone</a> inducts its newest Hall of Fame class. The honorees are recognized for being outstanding athletes at Detroit high schools or extraordinary contributors to student athletics.</p>
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<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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9/9/18: We’re Standing By / Detroit Sports Zone High School Hall of Fame

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<p>TONIGHT at 7:30 PM ET on Detroit Public Television, Stephen Henderson is joined by Brandon Brice (political commentator and columnist), Alicia Nails (Director of Wayne State University&#8217;s Journalism Institute for Media Diversity), Greg Bowens (PR &amp; Political Consultant, Bowens &amp; Company), and Kerry Jackson (910 AM Superstation) to talk about the state of the public&#8217;s trust in media, Omarosa&#8217;s allegations toward Trump, and the legacy of Aretha Franklin. Check out the previews for each of the segments below:</p>
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<p>American Black Journal host, Stephen Henderson, leads a roundtable on the growing references to &#8220;fake news&#8221; and whether there is a need for journalists to regain the public&#8217;s trust.</p>
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<p>Stephen Henderson and his guests discuss the allegations of racism aimed at President Donald Trump by former White House Aide Omarosa Manigault Newman.</p>
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<p>Stephen leads a roundtable on recent headlines, including the passing of Detroit&#8217;s Queen of Soul Aretha Franklin.</p>
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TONIGHT on American Black Journal: Fake News, Trump and Omarosa’s War of Words, and Remembering Aretha Franklin

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<p>On the next American Black Journal, Stephen leads a roundtable on recent headlines, including the passing of Detroit&#8217;s Queen of Soul <a href="http://www.arethafranklin.net/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Aretha Franklin</a>, the racism allegations aimed at President Donald Trump by former White House Aide <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/08/10/636955054/omarosa-tells-npr-she-heard-trump-n-word-tape-contradicting-her-own-tell-all-boo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Omarosa Manigault Newman</a>, and the growing references to &#8220;fake news&#8221; and whether there is a need for journalists to regain the public&#8217;s trust.</p>
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09/02/18: American Black Journal ROUNDTABLE

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<p><strong>Stephen Henderson</strong>: Welcome to American Black Journal. I&#8217;m Stephen Henderson. Each year thousands of teenagers and young adults get an opportunity to work during the summer through the Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent program. For some, it&#8217;s the first time they&#8217;ve been exposed to the workplace. For others, it&#8217;s a chance to build their work readiness skills and gain experience in their chosen career fields. Meanwhile, employers are being introduced the next generation workforce. Here to tell us more is Jason Lee. He&#8217;s the executive director of Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent along with employer Shawna Johnson Norfolk and program participant Akira Wright. Thanks for being here.</p>
<p><strong>Jason Lee &amp; Shauna Norfolk</strong>: Thank you for having us.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> So this is the third year of Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent, is that right?</p>
<p><strong>Jason Lee:</strong> So yes so Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent we&#8217;ve historically had a summer youth program in the city of Detroit. But under Mayor Dugan&#8217;s leadership he&#8217;s adopted Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent as one of his pillars in the community. And the program went from 2000 young people to 5000 under Mayor Duggan&#8217;s leadership. And this year we&#8217;re serving over eight thousand young people in the city of Detroit.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> Right. And the importance of that program. We can&#8217;t sort of overstate that. You think about the things that lurk for trouble for teens in the city in the summer. This is a primary way of redirecting them of saying &#8216;Hey, here&#8217;s something for you to do that&#8217;s not just not dangerous. It&#8217;s something productive. It&#8217;s going to help you now, it&#8217;s gonna help you in the future&#8217;.</p>
<p><strong>Jason Lee:</strong> Absolutely. I think that everyone recognizes their first employment opportunity, getting that first paycheck.<br />
And what Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent is doing beyond just giving kids something to do is giving them an opportunity to earn that first&#8211;that first check. As the mayor&#8217;s summer youth program, we are providing tremendous opportunities for Detroit residents 14 to 24 to participate in the workforce and be a contributor to Detroit.</p>
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<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> Yeah yeah. You&#8217;re one of the employers to participate. Tell us about your business and about your experience with these young people.</p>
<p><strong>Shauna Norfolk:</strong> Yes I am I&#8217;m an employer. My company is Be Legacy Solutions and our goal is to work with growing Detroit young talent is to employ young people give them time readiness skills also give them the opportunity and the ability to have some hands on training. Anything from attire, interviewing skills, and they also have had an opportunity to do some site visits with some local churches at 36th District Court. And so our goal is really to prepare them for the opportunities that lie ahead.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> What&#8217;s what&#8217;s the nature of the business that you.</p>
<p><strong>Shauna Norfolk:</strong> The nature of the business is basically training and coaching and personal development.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> Yeah yeah and what&#8217;s the response you get from from the young people?</p>
<p><strong>Shauna Norfolk:</strong> The response from the young people was very positive in the beginning. You know they&#8217;re a little to it because they don&#8217;t know what to expect. It&#8217;s not a regular working environment as they would expect. And so we come in and we do a lot of team building a lot of networking and then there are some assessments of their strengths and their talents. So it was unlike anything that they&#8217;ve had before. But naturally as we progress they progress and they improve over time.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> And how long has your business been participating in&#8211;</p>
<p><strong>Shauna Norfolk:</strong> This is my first year participating with Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> Yeah. So you&#8217;ll come back next summer, you think?</p>
<p><strong>Shauna Norfolk:</strong> Hopefully they&#8217;ll have me back to come back and continue to develop our young talent in the city of Detroit because it&#8217;s very important that we have a product as well to send out into the city and to other states across the nation. So my goal is to help do that.</p>
<p><strong>Jason Lee:</strong> Yeah and what Be Legacy is providing is what we call it an industry led training opportunities. So, we have students in a very diverse employment range of opportunities. And so whether it&#8217;s working at a company, whether it&#8217;s in automotive or one of the companies that downtown in the city of Detroit or even a small business we&#8217;re giving kids diverse experiences and in alignment with their skill sets are also their needs and interests. Yeah so Be Legacy&#8217;s providing tremendous opportunities for get kids additional foundation so kids are essentially getting paid to learn about themselves. So that&#8217;s a one of our newer initiatives for 2018.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> Yeah yeah. So, Akira, you&#8217;re one of the participants in Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent this summer. Tell us what you did and how you found it.</p>
<p><strong>Akira Wright:</strong> Well, what I did. Her program helped me learn more about myself and get life. I knew my strengths; we had a strength finder. So I knew my strengths, I just didn&#8217;t know how to use them. And through the program I learned how to use my strengths, like how to be a better leader because you can you can be a leader, but that don&#8217;t you&#8217;re a good leader. I learned how to be a better leader and just a positive person overall. Like even if I wasn&#8217;t getting paid, I would still do her program. Her program is so amazing like I think it should be a year-round.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> So, what year are you in school?</p>
<p><strong>Akira Wright:</strong> 2019, I&#8217;m a senior now. .</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> OK now you&#8217;re gonna graduate in the spring. Talk about how this has framed for you the way you think of your work life after high school or after college. Has this really sort of helped you helped you decide what you&#8217;re interested in. Honestly, just doing this program like the career options are endless. Like we&#8217;ve just seen a judge, and she was so confident like very confident. And I was like, &#8216;I want to be a judge&#8217;, but then we saw a psychologist before that and I&#8217;m like I want to be a psychiatrist. Like I want to be a motivated and I want to be a motivating speaker. I want to be like&#8211;I want to be a entrepreneur just like the options are endless.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> Yeah yeah. And the idea that this work experience sort of opens up those options and sort of the idea behind it is the more you are exposed to things the more curious you might be about other&#8211;.</p>
<p><strong>Akira Wright:</strong> It did teach me like that I want to work with people; like I like networking and the CAP program also taught me about networking. So this is just like both programs were just so amazing.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> The CAP program she&#8217;s mentioning is something new you have with&#8211; .</p>
<p><strong>Jason Lee:</strong> Yes absolutely. So we&#8217;re really excited this year.<br />
We partnered with Detroit Public Schools Community District and also at the United Way to create what we call the CAP program which is the Career Academy Program. Looking at the lens and other urban communities and other youth employment programs, there&#8217;s been a push for us to have a year-round work readiness program. So this is a pilot. We&#8217;ve worked with five Detroit Public School Community District&#8217;s high schools. Cody, Randolph, Osborn, Western International, and Ben Carson. And we picked a segment of students participate in that group. They are receiving year-round work readiness support as well as a career specialist to kind of support them throughout their work pathways and also removing any barriers that may be impeding them from an academic perspective also. So, Akira was part of our group of Ben Carson. And you know we kind of walked through the process of becoming a an employee through GDYT. We provided additional levels of work readiness training in addition to that we also provided what we call work readiness behavioral health awareness training through a partnership [with] Detroit Mental Health Authority. So over 1500 young people who participated in GDYT received what we call behavioral awareness training, which we recognize there are some obstacles that many people are facing that are preventing them from being either employed or maintaining employment. So the training is becoming a critical component of our work moving forward. When you are looking to hire people your business. Talk about some of the things that you see are lacking here in the city of Detroit that maybe made up for by programs like this.</p>
<p><strong>Shauna Norfolk:</strong> One of the things that I see not necessarily lacking but needs improvement leadership and our young people need to know and be taught that they are leaders and that they can be leaders. And one of the other things is identifying what are their strengths. And that&#8217;s one of the first things they do when they come into the program because they know they have talent. They know they&#8217;re really good at things. But how do I harness those and put those on a pathway so that I can do what I need to do and not feel necessarily like work. So understanding what your strengths are and not focusing on only on the weaknesses, I think, is very helpful for our young people so that they don&#8217;t they don&#8217;t feel so defeated every time something needs to improve, and so they can start from a place of leverage because they know what they&#8217;re good at. And the ability to lead&#8211;to walk into a room and be a leader and understand and make connections and networking you know this is you know the the social media age. So some of that high touch has been lacking and so one of the things that we do in the program is we force the young people to interact with each other and get to know each other.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> That&#8217;s interesting outside of social media. Face to face which a lot of young people are not really interested right.</p>
<p><strong>Shauna Norfolk:</strong> They are not they are not. But the first day when they walked in I told them you all will become a family at the end of the six weeks, and you know we&#8217;re going to put the phones down and just engage with one another just learn small things about each other because we&#8217;re all humans and we all have a lot of similarities and so they&#8217;ve taken that to a new level.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> I&#8217;ll bet they have talk about how this fits in with the work that you do in school. You&#8217;re at Ben Carson, is that right? Does this dovetail nicely with what they&#8217;re trying to prepare you for?</p>
<p><strong>Akira Wright:</strong> Yes like basically, they teach her&#8211;both programs teach critical thinking skills and in school, you&#8217;re going to need that. Also, she got us ready for like, filling out the basic information for college and stuff that would be like stuff that school don&#8217;t teach&#8211;.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> That they&#8217;re not going to make sure that you know how to do, right?</p>
<p><strong>Akira Wright:</strong> Yeah.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> Are you thinking about applying to college for the next year? And so this helped out.</p>
<p><strong>Akira Wright:</strong> Yes.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> Talk about into the future Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent. This has grown a lot over the last three years. What else is on tap?</p>
<p><strong>Jason Lee:</strong> So I think that we&#8217;re going to see continued partnership with industry led training opportunities as well as working with the leading companies that are here in the city but also with small businesses small and medium sized businesses. We did a partnership with Motor City match and we provided an intern to the Motor City match winners for this year. And it was a tremendous experience as we talked to Motor City fashion agencies that are working with businesses that are trying to either grow here in Detroit or be here, the conversation around talent continues to come up. So this is an opportunity to for businesses to get a insight into what type of talent is here and meet people like Akira and actually give them exposure to those opportunities for future careers.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> Yeah, and the pipeline for this, does it flow through DPSCD and other schools for the program?</p>
<p><strong>Jason Lee:</strong> We had over 13,000 young people apply for the program for internship opportunities this summer and it is a cross-section of all of Detroit. To qualify for Grow Detroit&#8217;s Young Talent. There&#8217;s two simple factors: you have to be a Detroit resident and be between 14 and 24 years of age.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> Ok, ok, Right. So you&#8217;re getting all kinds of people coming through.</p>
<p><strong>Jason Lee:</strong> Absolutely. So we&#8217;re going to do some strategic planning moving forward and look at how do we continue to have a model that&#8217;s relevant to the community that is important to the business community. And we&#8217;ve received tremendous amount of support from business and the philanthropic community here in Detroit. We are a very generous community that believes in the young people and its future.</p>
<p><strong>Stephen Henderson:</strong> OK, well, congratulations on all the good work, and congratulations, Akira, on a successful productive summer. I didn&#8217;t have many of those when I was a teenager, so, you&#8217;re ahead of the game. Thanks for being here.</p>
<p><strong>Jason Lee: </strong>Thank you.</p>
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American Black Journal | Grow Detroit’s Young Talent

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08/26/18: GROW DETROIT’S YOUNG TALENT / COMMUNITY EDUCATION COMMISSION

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<p>On the next American Black Journal, we&#8217;ll get a preview of the <a href="http://www.detroitjazzfest.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">39th Annual Detroit Jazz Festival</a> Presented by Quicken Loans over the Labor Day weekend.  Stephen gets all the information you need  &#8212; from this year&#8217;s artist lineup to the economic impact on the city of Detroit to the festival&#8217;s year-round efforts. Plus, we&#8217;ll have a video performance from jazz bassist <a href="http://www.kresgeartsindetroit.org/portfolio-posts/marion-hayden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marion Hayden</a> and other musicians performing at this year&#8217;s festival.</p>
<p><em>Featured Image: 2016 International Jazz Festival, Photo by U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Philip Bryant via jba.af.mil</em></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
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08/19/18: DETROIT JAZZ FESTIVAL

4-29-18

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<p>On the next American Black Journal, we&#8217;ll continue our celebration of the program&#8217;s 50th anniversary on Detroit Public TV.  Four of the show&#8217;s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTFOk0jYjEA&amp;t=3s&amp;list=PLwe1DQGIxfLOa2s6dLwpXQprZcuvhwu1S&amp;index=31" target="_blank" rel="noopener">former hosts</a> sit down to reminisce about their experiences on the program, the issues and topics they covered, and the importance of giving a voice to the African American community following the 1967 Detroit Rebellion.</p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t miss American Black Journal on Sunday at 9:30 a.m. and again on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. on Detroit Public TV, WTVS-Channel 56.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.pbs.org/show/american-black-journal/">View more from American Black Journal &gt;</a></h3>
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