Activities in 1999 - 2000

TELEVISION AND RADIO

      The Center continues to disseminate its scholarship through various kinds of television production and media appearances. Once again during 1999-2000 the Center received recognition for its television production. Two films produced by the Center, I'd Like to See What's Down There and Voices of History, were screened as part of "Celebration of Inquiry," at Coastal Carolina University, February 17, 2000. In addition, a segment of Africans in America, in which Center Director Charles Joyner had appeared as an on-screen commentator was shown as part of the presentation by Orlando Bagwell, who had produced the series for WGBH Boston. It was telecast nationally on PBS in spring 1999.

      In other television appearances, Joyner's on-screen commentary was featured nationally in "John Brown's Holy War," an episode in "The American Experience" series, produced by WGBH Boston and telecast nationally on PBS February 28, 2000.

      He was also an on-screen commentator on The Grand Strand, a television documentary on the history of Greater Myrtle Beach, produced by filmmaker Betsy Royall Newman, of Brooklyn, NY. and telecast on the South Carolina Educational Television Network.

      On radio, he was a guest on "Thacker Mountain Radio," broadcast from Oxford, Mississippi, over Mississippi Public Radio, October 21, 1999.