Spectacular Magazine Radio Show January 20th Guests To Discuss “Women, Power & Revolution”
Raleigh, NC – The theme for Spectacular Magazine Radio Show, your community-focused resource, on January 20th is “Women, Power & Revolution.” Guests are Durham School Board Member Minnie Forte-Brown, Immediate Past President of North Carolina School Board Association and Durham County Commissioner Brenda Howerton, Immediate Past President – North Carolina Association of County Commissioners. The radio talk show, a subsidiary of Spectacular Magazine, maintains the same mission of enlightening, empowering and entertaining as the magazine. Hosted by Phyllis Coley, Spectacular Magazine Radio Show airs at 7:30 am bi-weekly on Radio One’s FOXY 107/104, based in Raleigh, NC.
“Women, Power & Revolution” is the theme of the 17th Annual NC MLK Black History Month Parade & Block Party taking place on Feb. 2 in Durham, NC. Howerton and Forte-Brown will serve as Grand Marshals of the Parade. The theme is the title of a 1998 essay written Black Panther Party member Kathleen Cleaver, she states that “it is important to place the women who fought oppression within the longer tradition of freedom fighters like Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Ida Wells-Barnett, who took on an entirely oppressive world and insisted that their race, their gender, and their humanity be respected all at the same time.”
Cleaver goes on to write that ‘the way Black women have sustained our community is phenomenal. Historically, we did not live within the isolation of a patriarchal world; we were thrust into that brutal equality slavery imposed. Our foremothers knew we would have to face the world on our own, and they tried to prepare us for that. What I think need to be examined and explained more fully are the powerful contributions women have made to our resistance against slavery, to our resistance against segregation, to our resistance against racism.’ Toward the end of Dr. Martin Luther King’s life it is reported that he more closely identified with the Black Panther Party than the NAACP.
Forte-Brown and Howerton are elected County officials who were selected by their peers statewide to represent North Carolina and their respective organizations on a national level. Both women, as Cleaver describes, are ‘able to be revolutionaries (i.e. work for or engage in societal and/or political change) while fitting the archetype for what a woman was supposed to be.’
Spectacular Magazine Radio Show, with a mission to enlighten, empower and entertain, is committed to shining a spotlight on community organizations and community-powered events that impact our neighborhoods. Hosted by Spectacular Magazine’s CEO/Publisher Phyllis Coley, this high-energy half-hour weekly show is an extension of Spectacular Magazine and is your community-focused resource. In the studio each show are Lawrence Davis, Marketing and Digital Media Manager, and Yimisa Brodie, Social Media Intern.
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