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| Louisiana's 2003 Gubernatorial Race: Part 1 |
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Featured Speaker: Bobby Jindal, Gubernatorial Candidate
Date of Broadcast: Oct 26, 2003 |
| Cleo Live will host both Gubernatorial Candidates in a two part series beginning with Bobby Jindal on October 26 and Kathleen Blanco on November 2. |
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| Braun's Candidacy for President |
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Featured Speaker: Carol Moseley Braun - Presidential Candidate, Former U. S. Senator, and Ambassador
Date of Broadcast: May 18, 2003 |
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| Have The African American Votes Been Taken For Granted? |
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Featured Speaker: Rev. Al Sharpton
Date of Broadcast: Jul 7, 2002 |
 REV. ALFRED "AL" SHARPTON
Al Sharpton has made a career of placing himself at the front line of the struggle against injustice by lower and middle-income African Americans. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Sharpton began preaching at the age of four and spent his early years as a "wonder boy" sensation on the Pentecostal preaching circuit. In 1964, when he was ten years old, Sharpton was ordained as a minister and preached on a tour with famed gospel music performer Mahalia Jackson. But also that year, the divorce of his parents propelled Sharpton from middle-class comfort in Queens to public welfare and a housing project in Brooklyn. Having lived in better circumstances, he knew that black poverty was not inevitable and he vowed to fight for improved living and working conditions for African Americans. In 1969 civil rights leader Jesse Jackson appointed Sharpton as youth director for Operation Breadbasket, an organization that boycotted and demonstrated against businesses that were not hiring black. After high school and a few years at Brooklyn College, in 1971 Sharpton began his own organization, the National Youth Movement. After meeting soul singer James Brown in 1973, Sharpton became his touring manager and continued in this role until the early 1980s, all the while continuing his political activism. Sharpton formally entered politics in 1978 as the first African American to run for a seat in the New York State Senate. In the 1980s Sharpton became involved in a series of racial incidents that occurred in various New York neighborhoods. In 1986 he organized demonstrations and called for a special prosecutor in the aftermath of the Howard Beach incident, in which a crowd of whites chased a black man named Michael Griffiths onto a highway, where he was struck and killed by a vehicle. Two years later Sharpton served as an adviser to Tawana Brawley, a black teenager who claimed she had been abducted and raped by a gang of whites. Sharpton's credibility came into question when a grand jury found no evidence of any crime against Brawley. Sharpton also played a prominent role in the protests that followed the 1989 shooting death of Yusuf Hawkins, a black youth who was attacked by a white mob in the Bensonhurst section of New York City. In January 1991 Sharpton was preparing to lead a protest march in Bensonhurst when a drunken white man attacked Sharpton and stabbed him in the chest. After this incident, Sharpton began to refine and tone down his controversial public image. In 1991 Sharpton founded the National Action Network, a civil rights organization that seeks economic justice and political empowerment for the disenfranchised. Continuing to pursue a career in politics in the 1990s, Sharpton ran unsuccessfully in the 1992 and 1994 Democratic primaries for the U.S. Senate from New York. Meanwhile, in 1993 he served a well-publicized 45-day jail sentence resulting from a 1987 protest march that shut down the Brooklyn Bridge. In 1997 Sharpton made an impressive showing in the city's Democratic mayoral primary, winning 32 percent of the vote. More recently, Sharpton led large demonstrations against police brutality in the New York Police Department following the police torture of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima in 1997 and the shooting of unarmed Ghanaian immigrant Amadou Diallo by four New York City policemen in 1999. |
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| Black History: The Struggles, Results, and Impacts |
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Featured Speaker: Rev. Clay Evans, Pastor - Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church of Chicago
Date of Broadcast: Feb 10, 2002 |
 The Rev. Clay Evans, son of A. Henry and Estanualy Evans, was born on June 23, 1925, in Brownsville, Tennessee. This radio and television minister who reaches more than ten states each week, is happily married to Lutha Mae Hollingshed and they are the proud parents of five children.
Ordained as a Baptist Minister in 1950, this illustrious founder and Pastor of Fellowship Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois, for Forty-two years, is an alumnus of Carver High School, Brownsville, Tn., Chicago Baptsit Institute, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, University of Chicago Divinity School, Cortex Peters Business College, Trinity College and the International Bible Institute and Seminary, from which he received Honorary Doctor of Divinity Degrees from Arkansas Baptist College and Brewster Theological Clinic and School of Religion. The Rev. Clay Evans has been responsible for helping to launch the minsiterial careers of eighty-one persons including on one female minister and one adopted daughter: A leader in the Civil Rights since 1965, he was the founding National Board Chairman of Operation PUSH for five years (1971-1976) and currently serves as National Board Chairman Emeritus: July 1988, appointed as a member on the International Committee of Reference for New Life 2000 sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ, and is a featured soloist on numerous albums of hte 250 voice choir Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church. An autobiographical book "From Plough Handle to Pulpit - "Man With A Mission" was published in 1982 and sold thousands. Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church located on Fellowship Square, 45th Place and princeton Avenue and affectionately referred to as "The Ship" gives God the praise. Reverend Clay Evans, a man of faith, a man on a mission emphatically believes "It is No Secret What God Can Do". |
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| The United Nations' Conference on Racism |
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Featured Speaker: Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, Sr. - Live from Durban, South Africa
Date of Broadcast: Sep 2, 2001 |
 The U.N. has scheduled an eight-day conference on racism in Durban, South Africa to convene on Friday, August 31. The State Department said on Monday, that the Secretary of State Colin Powell has decided not to attend the U. N. conference on racism because of Arab-backed “offensive language” accusing Israel of racist policies against Palestinians. This was after months of deliberation. U. N. Spokesman said that no decision has been made on whether the United State will send a delegation to the conference or boycott it altogether.
U. N. Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson, spoke in Johannesburg, saying she was encouraged by the constructive attitudes of delegates attempting to reach a compromise, but it would take “the participation of all countries at the highest level possible” to demonstrate determination to fight racism. Representative Tom Lantos, D-Calif., praised Powell’s decision. As a world leader in the fight against racism, “the United States must not dignify this anti-Israel lynching with its high-level participation,” said Lantos, a member of the House International Relations Committee. The decision was also praised by the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, flew into Durban to join other U.S. civil-rights activists at the conference. He said in a telephone interview that Powell’s decision not to attend the conference represents “a huge step backward toward isolationism.” He also said that “at a time when we should be showing leadership in having a multiracial, multicultural society, we are choosing isolation and that sending a low-level delegation to the conference would be a global insult.” |
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