Previously On Urban Focus
Walter Fauntroy
Walter Fauntroy, a longtime civil rights activist and former member of the United States Congress, discusses the work and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The program features several discussions about the late civil rights leader.
Rev. Fauntroy, who is also the pastor of the New Bethel Baptist Church in Washington D.C., was a close confidante of Martin Luther King, having joined Rev. King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He helped coordinate the seminal 1963 March on Washington where Dr. King gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Hasan Kwame Jeffries
The show also offers a perspective from a scholar of the post-King generation. Hasan Kwame Jeffries, a professor of political science at Ohio State University, discusses the portrayal of Dr. King in the aftermath of the civil rights era. Dr. Jeffries is the author of “Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Belt.” The book offers a fascinating look at the struggle for black voting rights and civil rights in a relatively obscure county in Alabama – and the implications of that struggle for 21st Century America.
Congressman Jerrold Nadler and City Councilman Brad Lander discuss policies that they advocate that are contained in the recently-released book, “From Disaster to Diversity: What’s Next for New York City’s Economy?”The book was published recently by the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy and edited by Jonathan Hicks, a senior fellow at the DuBois Bunche Center for Public Policy.
Listen to the Jan. 20 show of Urban Focus here:
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Urban Focus is broadcast nation-wide via the Internet every Wednesday from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. at http://streaming.intacs.com/clients/medgarevers. In Brooklyn, the program will be aired on BCAT TV on Channel 70 (Cablevision), Channel 56 (Time Warner), Channel 44 (Verizon ) and Channel 84 (RCN). Urban Focus will be broadcast every Wednesday from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. and programs will be archived here on the DuBois Bunche Center’s website.
Through interviews with politicians, policy makers, industry practitioners, scholars and expert analysts, Urban Focus will explore a range of issues that affect underserved communities and communities of color from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to Cape Town, South Africa. The discussions will serve to both draw attention to problems and highlight solutions for issues of concern to these communities.
