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Hi, I'm Jackie Hall. And I'm Betty Bentley. 20 years ago this month, violence erupted in our cities. Some called it the riots. Others called it a conspiracy to cause trouble. But many say rebellion. Best describes the civil disorder that occurred in Baltimore and in most of black urban America. In 1968, the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr was a spark that gave rise to an enormous outpouring of emotions and pent up frustration steadily on City Line as we move into the summer of 1988. We look at Baltimore and urban black America then and now to determine whether the changes that have occurred in our black urban communities have been enough. Urban black America 20 years later today on City Life. Drusilla Dungy Houston Map Love. Ralph Ginsburg. These authors have two things in common. They wrote about African people, and they were published by Baltimore's Black Classic Press. The press is now ten years old, a talk with its founder coming up on newscast on my sister Bay. Hi, I'm Harold Anthony. And on today's entertainment page, you'll get the real Story on the relationship between Morris Day and Prince. And I'll have an exclusive interview with Baltimore's own Alison Lang, the first black Rockette. Stay tuned. Good afternoon and welcome to this week's edition of City Line. We have a topic that I think brings back memories, good and bad for a lot of people, not just in Baltimore, but in black communities all across the country. That is about urban America. The result of 20 years of change since the riots of 1968. An awful, awful turbulent time for sure, no doubt. And we've brought together some folks that are going to lend their not only reminiscences of that period, but also what we've learned, what we've seen since that time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=65.87,200.88"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I'd like to introduce our panel to you today, beginning with Dr. Linwood Ivey, director of Baltimore's Urban Services Agency. Sitting next to him is Eric Amin, community services director for the Northwest Northwest Baltimore Corporation. Of course, US Representative Ben Cardin, representing the state of Maryland. Sitting next to him is Madeline Murphy, journalist And I'm sure many of you recognize her as a frequent guest on okay, she's got a fair go about it on square off. And next to her is John Varon, who's with the Human Humane Human Relations Commission. We'd like to thank all of you for being here with us tonight. Thank you for coming to city life without getting bogged down in semantics, I think because we've just opened the door here was the what happened in 1968 considered a riot, a rebellion, an insurrection of what? Let's start with you, John. I never used the term riot. I feel it was a rebellion, a natural outgrowth which demonstrated the frustrations that black persons and poor persons have felt for a long time being denied the promises of this country. That's always a rebellion. Yeah, well, I think it was both. I'm not worried about whether it was a riot or a rebellion. I worry about what came as what was the cause and what black people did in the city as a result. Because I saw some heroic people go out there after the disturbances began, heroic people from the black community, some of whom were arrested because of the fact that they were black and yet they were trying to help. Okay, Congressman. Well, there are many factors that caused the problems that 20 years ago a Dr. King was a hero. Dr. King was a person that was looked up to as a as a person of peace who was trying to bring about change in the community.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=201.12,320.17"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There was frustration in our on our streets. People were denied jobs. People were denied dignity. People were not allowed to go where they wanted to go. And I think the combination of the frustration that had built up and Dr. King's death left the left a lot of violence around our nation. I would not like to use the term riot. I would like to use my own power to define the civil disobedience, what have you. Again, as my colleagues have stated, there were various causes that brought about the effect and hopefully we can go into those. We'll get into those. And Dr. Ron? Well, I was one of those people out there at the time. I tried to help, and I think that Madeleine and John both are right in this regard. I knew what the frustrations were, and I think after Dr. King was assassinated, it was just a reflection of the frustrations that had built up over a number of years and about three years prior to that, of course, the poverty program had come into being and it did not produce what people were expecting. And I think that it was a sort of an overflow of years and years of frustration and and dissatisfaction with what was going on. We mentioned that it was sparked by the assassination of Dr. King. Wasn't, in fact, just just a time bomb waiting to go off. Yes. Yes. And what, as a result, should we think about when we tell people about those years? I think I'd like to say we should think about all of the problems that racism cause in a community, in the areas of education, housing, unemployment, police brutality. When you talk about expectations were raised by the poverty program, you also must think about how people were first to, for the first time in these urban centers, were given permission to fight city hall.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=321.0,439.26"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I think this is the thing that that helped spark all of the other frustrations when fighting City hall didn't mean anything. Okay. We're going to take a break right now, But when we come back, we'll talk a little bit more about the past and to see where we've come. Stay with us. We'll be right back. Black urban America 20 years later. And we were just giving a sense of that historical time in 1968. Wasn't it ironic, though, that a man who stood for nonviolence and was who was cut down, that all of this violence erupted across the country, not just here? But isn't that ironic? I don't think is ironic, Jackie, because I think there's a misconception to believe nowadays that Dr. King's philosophy was universally accepted. There was another side, another philosophy that felt that this country and this approach to addressing the needs of the poor and the black was not true. The means proposed by Dr. King that the only way that effective change would take place was outright rebellion and power plays. Okay, what did we gain? We have to understand, though, that Dr. King's death was the spark. The spark, the conditions were there, the conditions of poverty, the conditions of people being held back. What I hope we have learned is that we won't repeat the mistakes that we made back then. Again, when we take a look at some of the programs that we have that try to rectify the circumstances, to give opportunities to people to get decent housing, the people to give the type of medical care to people. We find that we may not have made as much progress during the last 20 years as we should have. I think that should be our concern to make sure that we don't repeat the mistake we made 20 years ago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=439.71,615.6"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"As I as I read to prepare for today's show and I read the accounts of people who were there at the time, that the theme that kept coming through throughout several of their reports was We only hurt ourselves. We burn down our own neighborhoods. Do you did you get a sense of that, Eric Lynn? Yes, I did. I got a sense that in any stage of infancy when whether it's an individual or a community, when it has some kind of emotional outburst, that it will have a tendency to do things that are self-destructive and it will pull down, tear up and uproot its immediate environment, because a lot of times this outburst is spontaneous and a lot of times because the outburst isn't as planned as one would might think or read about. So just like the child who may want to grab something or may want to be fed at a certain period of time and can't get fed, that child will rant and rave and do what is necessary to cause attention to what's right. But I think you don't recognize the rage that came out of all of this, the rage of a leader who had meant so much to so many people, the rage that somebody would kill him. And so, as Frantz Fanon said in one of his books, in regard to how emerging people react, they first react on themselves if the thing closest to them. Now, I came from Cherry Hill, nobody rioted in Cherry Hill. Nobody broke windows or went into stores or looted. But that doesn't say that they didn't vent their anger and their frustration by going into town to do that sort of thing. And there was another practical side to the entire downtown of Baltimore.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=615.93,734.01"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That town was surrounded with the National Guard and the police department and many of the neighborhoods and which are businesses on which people vented their anger on were within the within those areas. And so that became the target. And the surrounding area where many people live became the target. But there were the downtown Baltimore. That town was completely protected. Is the rage gone or has it been be channeled in other directions today? Where the rage? The rage is in taking drugs. The rage is still blacks killing blacks. The rage is still acting out in public school system in certain just self-destructive ways. And I think it has to do with a positive self-image, which maybe Jesse Jackson is helping us to get because we do not still have that positive self image that we need in order to love ourselves, to help ourselves to bring about change. So what's to prevent 1968 from happening again? Well, if I may, Congressman Cotton pointed out that not enough things were done for the poor and the black community and thus the demonstrations or the rebellion. There is a philosophy that has been very effectively placed upon our society over the past seven plus years to the fact that maybe the government of the United States went too far and provided too much. And thus there has been a reversal of the social progress that had taken place. Housing has been almost public housing. Almost been eliminated. The social service programs that were formerly funded have been reversed and money is going into the military and going outside of the country. At that time, the United States was was was was not a debtor nation. The United States, in the past seven and a half years has become a debtor nation for the first time in its history.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=734.46,848.69"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We should look at some of the underlining problems we have now and analyze what that could lead to. You mentioned jobs, and I think that's a good point. We take a look at what's happened here in Baltimore on jobs. We find that we've lost somewhere around 30,000 manufacturing jobs in the last ten years. That's been replaced by about 40,000 service jobs. But when you take a look at the difference between manufacturing and service jobs is 100 or $200 a week, less income people are working in those types of employment. Take a look at housing. Same things happen in housing. We have tens of thousands of people are looking for subsidized housing and can't get it in Baltimore. We're going to take a break now. And when we come back, we'll pick up on these points concerning housing and jobs and some of the other issues that are still outstanding. Stay with us. We'll be back in just a moment. Now, here's this week's community calendar. Hello. I am Mary Jeffries. Jeffries Manna, a home for evicted women and their children invites you to a benefit. People helping people. On Friday, May 13, from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. at Palladium. You enjoy an evening of progressive jazz by the Lewis Hamilton Orchestra. Refreshments, a buffet, dinner, prizes and many exciting people. Proceeds will support this outreach providing housing for immigrant women with children. The public is welcome to attend. For tickets and further information, call all 350864. If your group or organization would like to announce an event, please write us in care of City Line. WJC TV Television Hill, Baltimore, Maryland 212, one, one. Or call us for further information at 46600013. Between the hours of nine and five. Welcome back to City Hall.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=849.59,1133.6"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And we're talking about black urban America. 20 years later, 20 years after the riots, the rebellion of 1968. We invite our studio audience Right now. I think we have a question from did we do our educational system 20 years ago compared to now is quite different now. We're always faced with cutbacks and budget cuts. What's going to happen 20 years from now? Will our educational system be then? Well, I don't think we learned we didn't really learn from 20 years ago. We are actually putting less of our resources into education today as a percentage of our total government spending than we did 20 years ago. I think it should have been just the reverse. We should have been putting more money into educating our children. Our public school system has not had the type of resources that it needs in order to to be excellent. So I would hope that we'll stop doing a lot of the talking about education and start putting the money in. Mayor Schmoke has made that his top priority and I think we have a good chance that we will be doing much more for public education in our state. Don't forget, we had we we didn't have Sputnik yesterday. We had Sputnik in 1960, which was the impetus for education in this country to really become concerned about science is concerned about mathematics. I hope we don't have another such kind of thing that will make us understand the importance of a continuing education, that we have to have quality education if we're going to worry about the future. Let's look at other areas now. Discrimination in housing or affordable housing? John, since you're right at the forefront of that and then as well. Well, the issue of affordable housing has reached a point now where no longer is limited to the impossibility of poor persons to purchase houses.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=1133.69,1240.52"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The middle class and upper middle class now find it next to impossible to purchase houses in today's economy. What about housing discrimination? I know Baltimore neighborhoods is almost as active now as they ever were. 20 neighborhoods is extremely active regarding housing discrimination. So happens that the city of Baltimore does not have a fair housing law. What I don't want to speak for the administration. I'm certain that this is being taken under consideration. And then what about jobs? The job problem now as far as finding jobs for people who do not have skills is much more difficult now than it was back in 1968. I think as the Congress on mentioned, over 30,000 jobs have been lost from this city in the last 20 years. In addition to that, jobs that the that a person could get who was not trained before are just no longer there. In addition to this, we have lost some of the major industries that provided an opportunity for an individual, for an individual who lacked skills to make a decent living in many of the service jobs today that people can get pays the minimum wage, which does not allow which impacts on affordable housing, impacts on education and impacts on health. So that it's almost been a to some degree in the job market for the for the unskilled individual in particular almost. We have almost going back 20 years in that regard. What about relations among the races now specifically, say among because in today's world we can no longer talk as if it's a black white issue. We seem to feel a lot more comfortable discussing race relations, discussing problems among the races. But is that the only improvement that we've made in the last 20 years have in fact made any great strides in relations among races, anyone? I think it's become it was it was cyclical.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=1241.42,1353.89"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I think that immediately following the rebellions, the death of Dr. King through massive guilt feelings, there were overtures among the races to come together. Unfortunately, however, of since the past seven years of the incumbent administration, it appears that an unarticulated message has been sent around this nation that it's okay to be racist, it's okay to burn crosses, it's okay to be bigot, it is okay to be anti-Semitic, as evidenced the recent cross burnings in the state of Maryland. Not only that, you talk about college campuses all the way from Massachusetts to Florida, all the way from the West Coast to the East Coast, you're finding that there's actual active violence and active harassment between the races, especially directed towards blacks and Asians. People haven't talked enough about what is going on with aging Asians, how they're lynching them and doing all sorts of things. And so we have a real problem in this pluralistic society of getting along with each other. I don't want to let this go, though, without I mean, I agree we have major problems in our community. All communities are having problems as far as racial relations are concerned. But. I do think we've made some progress in the last 20 years, and I don't think we should just say there has not been some progress made in this area. I think there has been progress made. I'm very proud that the fact that former city has two Congressman Kweisi Mfume and me and the two of us have really spent a great deal of time talking about this and working at it. And we see improvement in our communities. And I think Baltimore has improved. Well, I'm going to go beyond that because Ben Van Ben limited his comments to Baltimore City.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=1354.7,1458.29"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The state of Maryland should certainly take pride in the fact that it's one of the first states in the nation to develop a prejudice, violence institute, a government, a governor's task force, the outgrowth of which became a national institute. Okay. We've got to take a break right now. When we come back, we'll be able to continue our discussion. So stay with us. Don't get the call. Okay. We're still talking about the impact of the riots, not only at that time, 20 years ago, but even today. How long you wanted to talk about the economic base of the black community, how it changed? How did it change? Well, I frankly feel that the financial base of the black community has been taken from it. The avenue people used to visit, the avenue from D.C., New York, Philadelphia, Washington, everywhere. We had the means to support ourselves. We'd talk about the legal lottery now, and I know it's unpopular to talk about that. We used to have the numbers game in the black community that underwrote the cost for setting up small businesses. Education, high education. A number of our current professionals. And the riots, did that impact? Well, these are some of the things that have resulted in where we find ourselves right now, compounding the frustration within the black community, but also but also in reference to the economic situation, we must know that there's been a great illusion created that we control the drug market of illicit drugs. And I think we're buying in to that illusion by having this crime of drug dependency and drug trade perpetuated among ourselves. Where's your point, John, in reference to the the situation of numbers, we may have been in control of the numbers in in in years ago.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=1458.95,1666.82"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, now we're under the illusion that we're in control of the drug market so that we have a direct kind of influence on ourselves in relationship to the drug trade. Well, you know, I think, too, I have to make a make a statement in opposition to what Ben Cardin said. The reason after the riots, I think, and during the 1968 and Mitchell ran and lost in 1970, Parren Mitchell ran, my husband ran, Milton Allen, Rand Paul, Chester. And this to me was the Renaissance. As a result of all this dismay that came and despair out of the riots was the result in a more politically active community. And I think the more we stretch this politically active community and how important it is to our well-being is more changes will come about because it's true not only economics, but also through the public, so that it will make a change. Just one of the positives. And that was a great pause as a caveat. A caveat. However, I hope that we do not get deluded into believing that because we elect some black officials and municipalities and so forth that we have control of power because at the same time the power is going outside of the beltway. Yeah, but we need to understand it's extremely important. But we've got to say one thing, too. We have got to learn how to support our own businesses, support our own professional people, learn how to do selective boycotts. There's a beer company. Our black people buy from it all the time is the John Birch Society. We ought to stop buying it. It begins with a see, we ought to stop buying a lot of things that impact upon our lives in a in a negative way and save our money and support our banking institutions, black banking.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=1667.27,1776.47"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And now, before we can buy a house, before we run out of time. You've mentioned that the political power that came as a result or following the riots was a plus. What other policies otherwise? We have painted a mighty bleak picture here, didn't we? I think what I think when we look at such areas as hell, there is no doubt about the fact that 20 years ago we didn't have the health care facilities we have today. We didn't have access to certain health care, health care. I think even in the area of education, unfortunately, I think we spent so much time on building new facilities. We built a new Dunbar High School, we built New Forest Park High School. We built in a number of middle schools without emphasizing the quality of what was going on inside the inside of those classroom. But there was there were the kinds of symbolic things that people were seeking and asking for. There was no doubt in my mind either that young professionals, black and white, over the last 20 years have progressed tremendously and built on the ability to get additional jobs. At the bottom rung is where the problem is. We don't have a lot of time left. In fact, we're almost out of time so that we don't leave it on such a sour note. What do we do from this day forth, 20 years forth, so that we're not doomed to repeat the errors of the past? We put a we quickly we put a focus on building the human being. What Dr. Harvey was saying goes into the physical structures and edifices that most urban centers have put a great focus on since the 20. Up and down the shores of America. Now the focus must be to rebuild the human being so that the human being will be the proper edifice.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=1776.89,1877.03"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Support Mayor Smoke's efforts to build up our public school system. I think that's if you're going to pick one area that we need to look at for future public education, and that is a positive thing, a black mayor. And I think that we will see some changes and the president will maintain that optimism and keep talking. It'll be difficult, but it'll work. We want to thank all of you, Len, when Ivy Kamin, Ben Cardin, Madeline Murphy and John Forenza, I did it again. Thank all of you for being here with us. We invite you to stay with us as most of you. I'm coming up. How do you fight a killer that attacks without warning? You get the facts and take precautions. We'll give you the ammunition to fight high blood pressure. Next on Newscast, I'm Sara Bay. And still to come, the real lowdown on how Maurice de feels about France and Baltimore. His own Alison Lang returns to Charm City and Triumph as the first Black Rock. I have an exclusive interview with her on today's entertainment face. I'm sorry, Bay. And this is news Cap. You've heard the expression readers, our leaders. Well, so our writers and publishers, too, especially when it comes to books by and about African people. But publishing is big business in America. But even though reams of books are turned out and thrown out every day, a great number of books by and about people of African descent get turned down by the big publishing houses or not being reprinted anymore. Enter Black Classic Press. A young press with some very old ideas. It was born in Baltimore for the expressed purpose of bringing back into print or printing for the first time. Books by and about African ancestry people.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=1877.6,2051.01"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"With me today is Paul Coates, founder of Black Classic Press, celebrating its 10th anniversary. Welcome. Thank you. I'm so sorry. Now, when I when I first came to Baltimore, I heard about the Black Book, which was your bookstore. And then readers, writers and books when you were on WEAA FM and now Black Classic Press, How did you and Sheryl Waters, your wife, get involved in starting a publishing company? I saw the the press comes out of the bookstore. It comes out of our desire to share with people many of the books that were previously unavailable. Largely, it came as a result of people demanding the books, coming into the bookstore, demanding books, forcing me to look for books that just no longer were available. Finding those books when I could and not finding publishers with the wherewithal to bring those books back out and make them available to people. So we began in an effort to make those books available to people who wanted them. Now, what's involved in reprinting a book that's been out of print already? I say it's going to vary on the book. It's going to depend on a number of things. But basically it's a matter of checking copyright to determine whether or not the book is still alive, whether or not it is still within copyright. And then it's a matter of lining up and trying to determine what the market for the book is, who will read it, how you're going to get it published. There are a number of steps and it lining up the finances, of course. And most important is the distribution of the book. And that's the same as if he were publishing a new book that he has to be considered. Okay, Take one of the books we brought today, like The Tale of the Two Brothers.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=2051.76,2150.88"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Yes. How did you get that manuscript originally? That's a that was done originally in 1892. If you look at the book as it was done in 1892, I don't think too many people would spend too much time going through the book. What we try to do and what we did in this case with the tale of two brothers is bring together some of the better fine artists. Black artists use their creativity to make the book attractive to people and pull people into them. Hence the lovely cover. Now, the book was a library copy. It was a discarded library copy, but it's a very important tale and that's one of the reasons why we did it. It establishes one of the first or one of the earliest moral lessons. It establishes a bond between these two brothers. And that was important for us. We did the books, the Nat Love Book and Drusilla Dungy, Houston's book. How did you get that information? I understand you searched a long time for Priscilla Dungy. Houston's information just slowly. Dungy Houston and the Nat Love are two different ones. In the case of Nat Love, Nat Love is a tale that's been around. And fortunately, people have been familiar with Nat Love for some time. Unfortunately, the book hasn't been available. The normal commercial channels just sort of introducing is a different story. This is a black woman, 1926 wrote a three volume history of of ancient African people, people of African descent. That first volume, she was able to get out through her own efforts. She was able to write, publish and get that first volume out. She died before she got the other two volumes. So you're talking about really a three volume history. And it was a landmark book at the time and still remains a landmark.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=2151.45,2262.6"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That's because you don't have another example of a black writer devoting that energy to a book. This in the middle of what what some folks refer to as the Harlem Renaissance. Was very, very focused. And so it was an interesting, I guess, an interesting search to find her in. Interesting. Not in the life person, of course, because she died in 1941. But to find out about it, to find her family, which I was able to do, to track down the remnants of other writings that she had done and then finally to publish this particular book. The interesting thing about this book, and I won't go too long about it because I could go on on that. I know this is a favorite. Interesting. The interesting thing about it is that this book has excited. People around the country now that it is available because it establishes a link in the writings of black women. And it's just important and very interesting how people react to it. So now you have these books published. Who is your clientele? A client of theirs. We really service an international clientele that I know you travel to Europe sometimes. And so, yeah, we do book fair sometimes in England because you have a a large grouping of black folks outside of this country. We get focus a lot of times in this country, but you have a large group of black folks outside. And not only do you have black folks outside, we have other people who are interested in what is happening to black people in this country and what is happening to black people around the world. So we're talking about readers, individual readers, we're talking about schools, bookstores, and it's a varied clientele. What's your biggest challenge in publishing right now? The largest challenge is to structure an operation that will survive after I'm gone and after my wife is gone.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=2263.05,2374.91"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"That becomes very, very important. Establishing a continuum in black publishing when in fact you don't. In terms of black book publishing, you don't have examples of that. All of this, one of the oldest black book publishing houses is Third World Press, which now is 20 years old. You don't have except for in the Baptist experience, and that's the religious publishers. You don't have a black publisher that goes on for three, four decades. It's a it's a tremendous challenge. And that means setting up an infrastructure and organizing the business so that it survives past the the point of the people. So it's more than a notion. Yes, it is. Well, do you and Cheryl are both up for the task. Thanks a lot for joining us. Oh, thank you. We're going to give everyone some information about your anniversary party. You can join the party for Black Classic Press next weekend. Good food, good friends and good books at the Baltimore Museum of Art on Sunday, April 24th at 3 p.m.. Guest speaker is poet and educator, Hockey Madhubuti, publisher of Third World Press. Baltimore poet Lyneham Whitaker will also do some readings. And for ticket information, call 7284595. That's 7284595. In international news, a literary voice of conscience in South Africa is now silent. Author philosopher Dr. Alan Payton, who wrote the book Cry The Beloved Country, died of cancer last week. Payton's anti-apartheid book was first published in 1948. It has sold 15 million copies in 20 languages. It was made into a play called Lost in the Stars, and then a motion picture about a Zulu preacher whose son is accused of murdering a white man. Even though Payton wanted to end apartheid, he was not in favor of economic sanctions. But his one fear was that when whites got tired of hating, blacks would be tired of loving Alan Payton dead at the age of 85.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=2375.9,2491.74"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In health news, a silent killer continues to take more and more lives, even though preventing it involves a simple test. The killer is hypertension, high blood pressure. Detecting it requires a stethoscope, a pressure cuff and your arm. Doctors Uthman Ray and Percival Smith spoke with me last week about this deadly condition and the fight against it. It's as simple as a red pressure cuff, a stethoscope and an arm. High blood pressure is a leading contributor to heart attacks and strokes. There are no symptoms and no warnings. So having your pressure checked can save your life. Who is at greatest risk in the African-American community? Anybody more susceptible than others in the community to high blood pressure? The elderly, those people above 65. A greater risk than the young because those in that range, you have the most stroke patients, the most patients with myocardial infarction. What's that? Heart attacks. And though patients that are not treated who have these conditions seven times more frequently than those patients who are treated. Are there any other lifestyle factors that a person needs to take into consideration to control high blood pressure? Well, we should mention smoking. We know that a heavy smoker, a person in middle age who smokes a pack of cigarets per day theoretically has eight less years to live. Also, the impact of coffee drinking. So people that drink coffee smoke cigarets. It's one half 50 to 100% increased. So they have a net loss of living from eight to 12 to 16 years. That is what's happened. Coffee in itself squeezes blood pressure because it's a stimulant. Then the smaller the tube, this has a tendency to make there increased force needed to push through. We cannot say enough about alcohol. Alcohol, too, deprives the human body from several standpoints.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=2493.57,2630.52"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Certainly with blood vessels, it squeezes the vessel again by constriction, causing there to be more force to be utilized in pushing the blood through. So dietary changes, removal of alcohol, the removal of tobacco are very important. Then it was my turn to have my blood pressure checked since there are no needles involved. I didn't mind. She's a Type A person now. Just fantastic blood pressure. Remember, there are books on elevated blood pressure. There are chapters on low blood pressure as a reward for being such a good patient. I got a turn with the stethoscope. And as you can see, if you are concerned or just curious about hypertension dropped by the free health fair. It's next Sunday, April 24th, from noon to 6 p.m. at the Fifth Regiment Armory in downtown Baltimore. You can also get tested for sickle cell anemia, diabetes, take CPR training, have your teeth checked and your feet examined. For more information, call 945 8600. That's news for this week. Enjoy the rest of the day and the week ahead. I'm so sorry. Now stay tuned for Harold Anthony with the entertainment page. Hi, I'm Harold Anthony. A couple of weeks ago, I flew out to Los Angeles to cover the second annual Soul Train Awards. While I was there, I had a chance to interview Gladys Knight, Natalie Cole, L.L. Cool J. Eric DICKERSON, Jody Watley, Don Cornelius, and many, many more superstars. But of all the celebrities who attended Don Cornelius, his private party, which followed the ceremony, the most elusive and evasive, was the wild and crazy Morris Day. Now, this was enough to piqued my interest and inspired me to find out why this ordinarily open and verbal celebrity, which I'm away from a one on one interview for the most part day, is basically the same off camera as he is in front of it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=2631.57,2752.4"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He's open, very vocal and hilarious. But one apparent misconception that follows him is his allegiance to and dependance on Prince. The truth is, their relationship today can best be described as strained. They maintains that there are a lot of negative things that he can say about Prince, but he refrains from doing so even though Prince was the driving force behind the time. They still resents the fact that he was given so little creative control of his own career. According to Morris, even when he decided to leave Minneapolis to move to L.A., which was his right as an adult, it was a major cause of concern in the Prince camp. This, coupled with constant disagreements with Prince, proved to be the beginning of the end. Today, Morris is the captain of his own ship, and he is well on his way to becoming one of the great American musical legends. Did you do that? Be. You know. I can see these trends that she did be the. Yes, sir. Okay. You know. And, you know, I always wondered what it feels like to be kind of like a fish in the sea. The way you look in the business model, you can. That was Morris Day with Fish Men's. Oh, ladies. Morris still doesn't have a steady girlfriend and says the position is very much open. Incidentally, I'd like to thank Michael Goldberg out in L.A. for his contributions to this story locally. Tonight marks the last night that you will be able to catch Chita Rivera and the Rockettes in the fabulously French Can-Can. That means that this is also the last night that you can go down and show your support to Baltimore's own Alison Lang, who has returned to her hometown and this effervescent high kicking musical.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=2752.85,2977.54"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I had a chance to meet with Allen LUDDEN recently, and we discussed her illustrious career. I'm going to start off asking you a question. I have a feeling that you've been asked once or twice before, so we're going to get it out of the way. Okay. What's it like being a black Rockette? What's it like being a black Rockette every time they ask me this? I get stuck. No, it's fantastic. It's. It's a thrill. It's an honor. It's definitely a privilege that not many women have had. And it's exciting. It's very exciting. How many Rockettes have proceeded You? Oh, in total. Oh, God. Probably in five or 6000. I would imagine the rockets have been performing as the rockets since the 1930s and prior to that. They had a couple other names. They started in Saint Louis. So they started out as the Missouri Rockets in the 1920s. And then they were invited to New York and eventually made Radio City their home and. And so they continued. And it's my understanding that the founder believed that, you know, he just wanted this one straight image. The girls weren't allowed to get tans and so forth and so on, because he felt that it broke the line. They've changed management and they've become a little more progressive in their thought. And I think they're taking a big stretch here. Um, there were two of us in the show prior to a couple of weeks ago, and we fit in perfectly. I mean, I think we enhance and for the most part, I mean, I have even I've had someone tell me in Atlanta that they couldn't they didn't know I was up there. They saw me. I was cashing my paycheck. And tell us that you were on the show.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=2978.38,3088.78"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I said, yeah, just I did notice you. I said, Oh, my God. In my changing colors or something, you know? And I thought, sure, you know, I was stand out. But I think if I do, it's not in the kit line, which is where you need the precision dancing and all, but primarily in other scenes if I do. But for the most part, it's it's wonderful. You have been likened to Althea Gibson, Paul Robeson, Jackie Robinson. Does that put any extra pressure on you to perform? Oh, no, It's an honor because I like them. I feel like a first achiever. Like I've earned my right of passage, you know, into another institution. As a black woman, I feel like it's my rite of passage as a performer and a dancer. You know, professionally, I feel like I've earned my rite of passage. My family, a lot of them says, Oh, you made the big time. I'm like, Well, I've been working pretty steadily in New York for the past three or four years. I thought I had already made it. You know, it's just a continuous ladder of things to come. You play on coming back here to Baltimore. I would like to come back to Baltimore and and put my roots down again and, you know, share what I have learned since I feel like I'm a woman of the world now, you know, and share some of my experiences and my knowledge and my gifts. I've been given a lot. I'm an only child, spoiled, but not a brat. And I like to share what I've been given. What a most gracious and genuine lady. Northwest Baltimore's own pride and joy. Allison Manning. Also in and around town, the Arena players are proud to present the work of the new playwright PJ Gibson.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=3089.62,3190.63"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Long time since yesterday. This humor sensitive work examines the lives of a set of contemporary middle class black women who survived the turmoil of the sixties and came out on top in the eighties. The play is currently running at the Arena Playhouse, located at 801 McCullough Street. The cast includes Charlene Harris and Annette Burton. For showtimes and ticket prices, you can call seven two, eight, six, 500. And finally, the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. is proud to present the Boys Choir of Harlem. The world renowned choir can be heard on Saturday, April 23rd at 5 p.m. at the Heavy D Grace High School Auditorium, located at 700 Congress Avenue in Heavy D Grace. For further information, call 836 4000. And with that that another page is turned. I'm Harold Anthony, inviting you back next week when I'll feature the Verts ladies and I'll highlight the magnificent Alvin Ailey dancers. I'll see you back. That's our show for today. And we'd like to pick up on a point that I saw Sara so brilliantly did in her piece today. And it's about hypertension, the silent killer. That will be the theme of next week's show on City Line. Hypertension, the silent killer. That's right. If you'd like to be part of our studio audience next week, feel free to call us at 481 1313 to make your seat. Reservations is eight one 1313. And of course, you can always get in touch and see if you can be part of that studio audience. Right. And and on a very somber note, we'd like to announce that the world of art and theater mourns the passing of Alfie Brown, who died on Monday, April 11th, after a long illness. Alfie, as many of you will remember, was the hostess of a show that aired on Maryland Public TV.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333#t=3191.15,3423.94"},{"id":"https://marmia.aviaryplatform.com/collections/948/collection_resources/105564/file/206333/transcript/48957/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The Critics Place, which enjoyed a successful 11 year run. She is also remembered through her movies and theatrical productions, the last of which was Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, offered in Alfie. 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