<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The Richard Brown</FONT></SPAN></B><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN"><FONT face="Times New Roman"> <B>Show</B> is a progressive African-American radio voice for all of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:State></st1:place>.&nbsp; The show provides dialogue and tools to the community that will move us closer to solutions.<BR>&nbsp;<BR>It features the voices of everyday <st1:place w:st="on">North Carolinians</st1:place>.&nbsp; The radio show is a venue for dialogue about race, education, financial literacy, health care, and other issues.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>The goal is to develop a collective understanding of people's real life problems and identify tools to help people take action.&nbsp; It develops issues in a narrative format, and provides a sense of how these issues are affecting people.&nbsp; <BR>&nbsp;<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN">It is aired on WCOM 103.5 FM in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Carrboro</st1:City>, <st1:State w:st="on">N.C.</st1:State></st1:place> </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">every Monday at 9:00 am.</SPAN><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">We will continue our conversation about Black Art and our internal struggles, in particular slavery.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Most of the pictures and poems concerning slavery are not from the perspective of our ancestors in bondage and their humanity.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Why has this voice not been heard and/or understood, by us, the children of slaves?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Perhaps this topic still carries so much hurt for most African Americans that it is not something that we wish to visit often or at all. Yet, this important historical time in American history is a critical lens to understand ourselves.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Titus Heagins and Jackie Sheldon- Green have provided us with two mediums to begin this conversation anew.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Their work shares the complex life that African Americans faced within the institution of slavery and how our ancestry navigated this very unique American system.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Titus’s photography depicts people’s daily lives. Jackie Sheldon-Green’s prose fleshes out the mental and emotional picture and grounds the onlooker in how we lived…<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN>The exhibit is on display at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">North Carolina</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Central</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Art museum</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> until October 21, 2005. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</SPAN>We will talk with them about their work and our struggle to give voice to the various emotions that it invokes.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>Email me questions you have for our guests.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN>As always, we invite you to join us via the phone or email.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman">To listen live on Monday’s at 9:00 am<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Tools from previous week’s show (</SPAN><SPAN style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"><FONT size=3>October 3, 2005)</FONT></SPAN></FONT></B></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;<I>Personal:</I></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If you are a Black person and see a Latino person, try to see that person as someone who is working hard like you to make it.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; If you are <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Latina</st1:place></st1:City> person and see a Black person, try to see that person as someone that is also working hard like you to try to make it.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Reach across race barriers and begin the hard work of establishing an understanding of that person's personal and cultural history</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;<I>Paradigm:</I></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We must be about the business of creating more space for honest, safe and open dialog about race.&nbsp; Not making statements that create fear about others of a different race.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; We must begin to give ourselves other reference points to evaluate ourselves and the community in which we live</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><FONT face="Times New Roman"><I>Finding Common space between Latino and African American communities:</I>&nbsp;</FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Music</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Family&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Food</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Statistics:</FONT></I></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </FONT><A href="http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p20-545.pdf"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Latino Population</FONT></A></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </FONT><A href="http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/p20-541.pdf"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>African American Population</FONT></A></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Vision:</FONT></I></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Historically <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Latino</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Colleges</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> and Universities (HLCU)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Provide resources and strategic planning on common issues that face both communities</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=3>&nbsp;</FONT><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN">Speech: <SPAN style="mso-tab-count: 1">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN></SPAN></I><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;</SPAN></SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><B><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN"><FONT face="Times New Roman">To listen to previous week’s show<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><A href="http://cra-nc.org/richard_show/lastweekshow%2017b.mp3"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>http://cra-nc.org/richard_show/lastweekshow%2017b.mp3</FONT></A></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>See </FONT><A href="http://cra-nc.org/richard_show/richard_radio_organizing.htm"><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>Tools</FONT></A><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3> section for more information</FONT></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN">Please note if you are having trouble with the live stream try cutting the link and pasting into Windows Media, Real Player, Winamp etc.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>url: </SPAN><STRONG><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><A href="http://audio-mp3.ibiblio.org:8000/wcom.mp3"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal">http://audio-mp3.ibiblio.org:8000/wcom.mp3</SPAN></A>.</SPAN></STRONG><SPAN lang=EN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp; </SPAN>If you want to learn more and become involved with <B><A href="mailto:richard@cra-nc.org">The Richard Brown Show</A></B>, contact us at 919-667-1557 ext. 23., or visit&nbsp; <U><A href="http://cra-nc.org/richard_show/richard_brown_show.htm">http://cra-nc.org/richard_show/richard_brown_show.htm</A>.</U><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp; </SPAN>If you want to be removed from the mailing list, please email with "unsubscribe" in the subject line. Thanks…</SPAN></FONT></P>