Non-entertainment radio broadcasts such as editorials, interviews, and public service messages targeting the African American community that aired in 1984. Sponsors are WLIB (disaster relief--Ghana), WDAS (Black English, prize contests, basketball; features Tony Brown, Maurice Brown, Steve Collins), Pro-Line Corporation (Harriet Tubman; features Lena Horne), Soft Sheen Products, American Health and Beauty Aids Institute (interpersonal relations), Anheuser-Busch (Africa--Kings and rulers; features Lou Rawls), U.S. Army (athletes, Olympics), WBBM (Harold Washington, Martin Luther King Jr.), WAOK (politicians, Martin Luther King Jr., Nicaragua; features Tracy Gray, Julian Bond and James Orange), M&M Products (Madam C.J. Walker), WRKS (Adam Clayton Powell Jr.; features Bob Slade, American Cancer Society (cancer; features Bob Slade, Dr. Harold Freeman), and National Black Network and Unity Broadcasting Network (Ed Castleberry interviews Jayne Kennedy, the Commodores, Marla Gibbs, Johnny Mathis, and Isaac Hayes). Some of these entries did not receive awards.
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Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.