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CORNISH: It was becoming clear that the public wasn t getting the benefit from the airwaves that it owned. And so in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson formalized an alternative. It was called the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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LYNDON B JOHNSON (36TH US PRES): .The Corporation of Public Broadcasting (ph). This corporation will assist stations and producers who aim for the best. We in America have an appetite for excellence, too. And while we work every day to produce new goods and to create new wealth, we want, most of all, to enrich man s spirit. And that is the purpose of this act.
“THE BLACK CHURCH: THIS IS OUR STORY, THIS IS OUR SONG,” TO PREMIERE IN FEBRURY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH APT and WVAS
Montgomery: From Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church in Montgomery to 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, these prominent Black churches in Alabama and across America have played major historic roles in the foundation of the heartbeat of the Black communities. Beginning with enslavement, Emancipation, Jim Crow, the Great Migration and the Civil Rights Movement to the present-day, Black churches in America tell the richest of stories, sing the glorious of songs and sculpt the core of Black communities.
WNCU Radio will host a Facebook Live conversation with prominent pastors in the community and air a special music series featuring well-known local gospel artists in connection with “The Black Church: This is Our Story, This Is Our Song,” the upcoming PBS documentary series by Dr. Henry Louis Gates.
On Thursday, February 11, WNCU will host a Facebook Live event, The Black Church: A Conversation with Local Pastors from 1 pm 2 pm. This dynamic discussion about the history of the Black church in America and in our communities will feature pastors Andy Thompson of World Overcomers Christian Church, Reverend Luke Powery of Duke University Chapel, and Pastor Michael Page of Antioch Baptist Church.