Previously On Urban Focus
Charles Brumskine
The West African nation of Liberia continues to be the subject of Urban Focus. This edition includes an interview with Charles Brumskine, a lawyer who is a candidate for president in the 2011 election. That race is already the subject of international attention. Mr. Brumskine is challenging the incumbent president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who was elected in 2005.
Mary Broh
The program also features an interview with Mary Broh, the mayor of Monrovia, Liberia’s largest city and capital. Ms. Broh has attracted headlines throughout the world for her emphasis on cleaning the streets of Monrovia and for her no-nonsense style.
Also in the program, there is an interview with Clifford Blamoh Robinson, the national president of the Movie Industry of Liberia. Liberia’s film industry is nowhere near the scope and dimension of the massive film industry in, say, Nigeria. But the industry is starting to emerge after the 14 years of civil war that ended in 2003. And Liberia’s film industry is giving rise to a new generation of West African stories by new filmmakers.
Cliff Robinson
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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.
