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is the theme of today's show. Well, it's not really our theme, but the best in birthday wishes go out to Manette Seat, who had a birthday last week, and birthday wishes are also extended to the woman without whom I could not do this show. My right hand, a person without whom I wouldn't get much done it all around here, and she's all around sweetie to Amy Gargata. Amy's birthday is Wednesday of this week, which is the day we taped this show. And I don't suspect she's a day over 21. Saturday is the day that the show airs, and that just happens to be the birthday of another person without whom I wouldn't get much done either. Me. I'm not a day over 31. Hey, who said that? No wonder this show is so good. There's so many leos working on it. Indeed, happy birthday to all the leos out there. The real celebration on today's show is with gospel music. Reverend Curtis Lewis and his son Curtis is here or are here with a few of the members of the Alequipa

Church and the Round Radio Concert Choir. You will enjoy them tremendously. Also today we'll present our Tanner calendar with the arts events that you will want to know about. All of that and Manette Seat will be alone to review the new Clint Eastwood movie, Unforgiven. But before we celebrate any of that, I want you to join with me in celebrating our black youth. Every year I work with the Pittsburgh Black Media Federation to conduct a journalism workshop for high school students and they produced this newspaper. It's called the Urban Agenda. They also have produced a radio show that they call Teen Talk that airs every ever Saturday on WAMO. During this year's workshop, they created the following newscast. Here are some youngsters worth celebrating. This is WBVT News, Black Voices Television. Here are your anchors

John Galloway and Ebony Johnson. Hello, I'm Ebony Johnson. And I'm John Galloway. These stories highlight the news this evening. Life after the Rodney Kingburg, gangs and how they infect these new clean -up efforts and the effect of the Maglev Super Train on the African - American community. But first our top story. Within 200 people gathered outside the Wood of Education in Oakland during a three -day prayer visual in support of Dr. Loretta C. Webb. Dr. Webb is the only African -American candidate for a superintendent for the Pittsburgh Public Schools. Mark Britley, one of the events organizers, cost Dr. Webb an advocate for education who could improve the system for all races. I mean if you just look at the crowd behind me alone, we're talking young, old, elected official, community activist, white, Muslims, Jewish members. There's a broad range of folks who support this movie.

According to District A school representative, John Suver, the private also that people are in support of change. We're saying we don't want the politics as usual and that happens in politics. We want to see someone who's going to be a catalyst for change and I think that's what's going to make the difference either they're going to be a change or we're going to be some of the same things we've been doing. It's going to be a cold soup warmed over again. I also talked with board member Valerie McDonald. This is the prayer visuals are a challenge to board members to listen to the constituents, the parents and students and vote accordingly. A decision is expected tomorrow. Danielle Smith is standing by our report on police brutality. Danielle. Thank you, John. On March 3rd, 1991, the world watched in despair as four white police officers brutally beat motorists, Rodney King. Many blacks watched with tears fearing it could have been themselves but in the eyes of others, he was brought up as just another black

person being beaten by the police. An unofficial poll was taken by this reporter. Some say police brutality is a problem in the black community and that it is part of their everyday life. On the other hand, people told me that all police aren't bad because of the few who are most get the bad rap. I'm not aware of any police brutality as such occurring in Pittsburgh. However, we will be working with all of those groups to address not only the crime problem but any future problems that may arise from the community and the police department. The measures police take to protect the citizens is that they respond to calls and take the actions depending on the incident at hand. They are here to serve the citizens of America and not to harm them. John. Thank you Danielle. An East Liberty gang's gang up while local teams try to clean up. Zakir Red is standing by with the story.

Zakir. Thank you Ebony. East Liberty kids trying to beautify their Lormore Avenue neighborhood or being harassed by local teenagers. These teens are related to the Lormore Avenue gang also known as the LA Hoods. A few weeks ago, the harassment was targeted to the founder and president of East Liberty Concerned Citizens Corporation or Ali Carroll. Several days ago her house was vandalized graffiti on the wall said LA crypts 1 3 5 this message threatens murder. Last night her house was burned down. She lost all of her belongings including her dog. Fortunately no one was killed. Police gang and go to my job site and threaten my supervisor. Threatening break out one of that my center not tortured my home. I spoke with a few of the kids in Miss Orally Carroll's program. They told me

that there were kids involved in the LA gang that Miss Orally Carroll tried to reach out to but apparently couldn't. They were kicked out of the program which is when the harassment began. Miss Carroll says that she won't back down. God has kept her strong and this has made her stronger. She is going to continue the program when she initially started with her own money. Her ultimate goal is to have the youth center stay open for 24 hours a day and that any use with the right conduct could join. Ebony. Thank you Zakia. John Maglev may bring your cutting edge technology to Pittsburgh with the rail system that looks something out of the movie Star Trek. Although it looks complex the principal is very easy. Unlike conventional railroad cars, Maglev doesn't ride on rails. It uses a cushion of air from created by magnets pushing away from each other and allows the train to actually float above the rail thus giving it the name magnetic magnetic levitation. Pittsburgh is a

prime candidate for this new technology especially with 2 million recently committed by the Casey administration for research. The proposed route were run from the new airport to downtown Pittsburgh and possibly to Oakland. Well that really moved things along. The focus of teen parenting is placed on women. Here's a story of teen fathers taking action. More and more black teen fathers are taking responsibility for the lives that have helped create. According to Anthony Bell, case worker for Pittsburgh and partnership with parents. Out of the teens he's counsel 50 % more black teenage fathers than white are taking responsibility for their children. Randy Smith a 24 -year -old divorced father is proving this point with his four year old son. I would like you know the heavy kids one of the things I look forward to doing is teaching him about things that I know now that I didn't know when I was his age and as he's coming up and growing up in his life and if I can give him some pointers and help him out and guide him like my father did you know he might become

hopefully as successful as I am and one day or you know become even more successful. Smith also says during the school year it's hard but when summer comes he can spend more time with his son and when Christmas comes Smith says he tries to be like Santa. Back to you John. Thank you, Tan. Yet. John another progressive group is young African -American teens. What you are watching now is the first television broadcast of Teen Talk at local PBS affiliate WQED. Andre Woods has more. Thank you Ebony. Pittsburgh's only team magazine show heard on WAMO radio is broadening their reach to television. Teen Talk is an outgrowth of the radio show with the same name. The program has been produced for about a year and a half. Tonight crew executive producer of the radio show said that having the show on TV is a great addition to the program. With me here in the studio is one of our show's co -host Dee Tipton. Hello Mr. Woods.

Dee do you think being on TV would make more people tune in? Yes I do because I feel that more people would probably watch the TV show than radio because more people tend to watch TV than listen to radio. What is your ultimate goal in having the show put on TV? Ultimate goal is the good nation wide because I feel that if we go nationwide I have my face plastered all over you know billboards and stuff but not only that it's to educate young America well that that's our that's our target audience but not all in young America older the older people too because we want to know let them know the African American youth do have something positive to say in society and society. Thank you thank you very much. As you can see team talk has fulfilled its television goal but now they are reaching for new heights to become a national show. Expression of views of African American youths. I'm Andre Woods for WBVT News. In fact are you happy? Thank you for watching and please tune in again to hear more on our community. Remember when news happens and you feel you're only getting one

side of it tune in to WBVT Black Voices Television. Good night. This has been a production of WBVT News Black Voices Television. The station has all that and a bag of chips. Danielle Smith is standing by with report on police brutality. Thank you, John. On March 3rd. East Liberty kids trying to beautify their Laramur area neighborhood or get becoming harassed.

She does also. According to Anthony Bill case work for I'm Andre Woods for WBVT News. In fact are you Epney? That concludes our program. Please thank you for watching and please tune in again for more. That concludes our program. Thank you for watching and please tune in again to hear more on our community. Remember when news happens and you're only getting one side of it tune in to WBVT Black News Television. Good night. This

concludes our program. Thank you for watching and please tune in again to hear more on our community. Remember when news happens and you feel you're only getting one side of it. Tune in to WBVT Black Voices Television. Good night. Hi, how you doing? You just got a winner of the whole production but you know what I'm getting paid so who cares? My children, my babies, my own. All it worked very hard to put that together and I didn't want all that good work to go to waste and appear in just a vacuum. That's why you see it here today on Black Horizons. It's also very time. The radio section of the workshop will air their program on WAMO on Saturday, September 26th at 6 .30am. Oh boy. I've heard it and it is really good. Well here's a man at C2 review what's good, bad and ugly about Clint Eastwood's new film and it's titled Unforgiven. That was really good.

They were good. I enjoyed seeing myself the first time I was in this chair. Couple of times. We've all been through that and they're getting a chance really to start at such an early age and I think it's good for them and I just want to show people what some young black folks are doing. With their spirit done? Yes. And their brain power? Absolutely. Right. So Unforgiven. Yeah. Is it a forgiving kind of film? It is not a forgiving kind of film. It tries to be a forgiving film. What this movie is so strange to me because you leave and you're like you're all wound up because you think you're going to go see Clint Eastwood blow away 75 ,000 people and it's going to be great. It takes him so long to get up enough nerve to actually kill somebody. The whole point of this movie is to point out the futility of killing. That's the whole thing of the movie. And then so not to disappoint. But the whole premise of the movie is this man made his whole life his whole career everything he did. He and his partner Nate, who was played by Morgan Freeman, they killed people for a living. They killed people when they were drunk. They killed

women, children, dogs, chicken, they didn't care. They just killed people. And they suddenly realized we did this because we were drunk because we were stupid. So they decided to live all the lives and they become fond lives of farmers. They have families. They have attachments. And then they didn't send us clips this time. But every time I look at the clips, I try to get it feeling what the movie is like. And this trailer they sent seemed to move so slow and ponderous. Well Eastwood Studio didn't send us clips of his movie. And for that, they will remain unforgiven. However, we pull video from the trailer from the picture of the same name. And here's a sample. It was a matter of honor. They're paying a thousand dollars to whatever kills the two boys and cut up the lala. In a time when lawmen were killers, we all look enough. You English Bob outlaws

for heroes. Well, I thought that you were dead. Hell, I even thought I was dead. Till the finale was just in Nebraska. And a bad reputation. You're the one who killed William Harvey and robbed that train over Missouri. Was it as good as gold? My guess is you're calling yourself Mr. William money. Say what? You don't look no meaner than hell, cold, but a damn killer. I ain't like that anymore, kid. That was a dollars for a warrant, no? Nobody's gonna come. So you just don't have that two, three ways. Takes a long time to get them where they're going, I guess. It just take a long time. Lots of people get killed. Richard Harris's character. English Bob comes in. He's, you know, he goes up against Gene Hackerman, who's the town sheriff. He just gets the poop beat out of him and run out of town on a rail pretty much. They're so deliberate. They're trying

so hard to work up the thunder. They need to do this job as a director. How does Clint Eastwood come off that? I've enjoyed a couple movies that he's directed. This one, Bird, especially, and also the Bronco Billy. I like that. Yeah, so as a director, I've always marveled at people who could direct themselves. I guess it's just more a matter of knowing yourself as an actor and what you can be expected to do. The men in this movie all seem very comfortable around each other. What about the women? How do they come out? Well, all women in Clint Eastwood movies are the same. There's always the whore with the heart of gold. There's always some poor strumpet who's been wronged, and he's got this galahead complex, and he's going to save her, and it's the same in this one. It's the same in this one. Okay. It's doing well at the box offer. I know it doesn't sound like it, but I really, really enjoyed this movie. Well, it was our turn of the wheel of average. What else I want? I mean, you enjoyed it. It did move slow. It didn't plot. It did move slow, and it did plot. But if you,

the early spaghetti westerns, the Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood movies, those were the rapid work. But there was an awful long time to develop. I mean, it would take him forever to throw that poncho over his shoulder, spit, and kick out the cigar and chill. It's monitoring through the desert with, like, bullet wounds. There's always this ponderous quality to, I mean, he likes the struggle. He likes the thing that changes a man from a man into a killing machine. And he wants the audience to feel what the character goes. Suffer with me. Not for me. What is your rating system? $6 .50, which is full price if it's worth every penny in a very, very fine movie. And stay home and watch it on cable for nothing if it's not. And $6 .50. Happy birthday. I'd like to sing your song, but I couldn't carry a tune in the bucket. Oh, no, no, we're moving on. Well, it's time now for our Tanner calendar. It's the weekly listing of all the news that is the news in the world of artsy events here in the bird. Looking for something to do? The Carnegie is full of opportunities. Registration for fall classes is this

Monday, August 17th. You can become intimate with rhymes or explore the rhythmic excitement of Afro -Caribbean dance forms. There are classes for the whole family. For more information, call the school for the Carnegie office at 622 -3288. Attention to all Pittsburgh painters, sculptors, photographers, and other beginning and developing artists. Here's your chance to show your stuff. The Pittsburgh Center for the Arts and Pittsburgh Progressive Artist are sponsoring a People's Art Show. This is a non -jury dexhibition that runs from August 22nd through September 13th. Artists can submit two works in an in -medium, knowing that one will definitely be exhibited. Call the details, call 441 -8086. Remember, if you have an arts event that you would like publicize, simply write to us at the Tanner calendar. In care of WQED -13, 4802 -5th Avenue, Pittsburgh PA

-15213. Reverend Curtis Lewis is the Minister of Music at the Alec Quiver Church in the Round. He is no stranger to WQED, having been a participant in the very first to make a joyful noise that we taped almost eight years ago to date. On August 30th, the church is bringing Grammy Award -winning gospel artists, Lanelle Harris, to town. Here's Reverend Lewis with his son, Curtis, with the sampling of the spirit -fuel music that you will hear that night. As I journey through this land, singing everywhere I go, pointing souls to

Calvary, to that crimson flow, so many arrows have already pierced my soul from without and within. Oh, but the God I serve, He keeps leading me on and through Him I know I will win. Oh, I want to see Him just to look upon His face there to seek forever of His saving grace on the streets of glory. I'm going to lift

my voice. All of my cares are past. I'm going to sing. Oh, I want to see Him just to look upon His face there to seek forever, forever of His saving grace on the streets of glory. I'm going to lift my voice. All of my cares will be past. I'm going home and last forever

to rejoice. Well, amen and amen. Reverend Lewis, would you stand up with me here, please, sir? I can't believe it's been almost eight years today that we were out there to church and around, and I remember the hospitality that you and Pastor Clark extended to us, and I remember leaving there very full because you wouldn't let us go anywhere to eat, but the church said, we have food for you. And that was a wonderful experience for us, and it was great to have to be one of the best make a joyful noise is that we presented. And I just want to again thank you for working with us and being here today. Now understand you you're having a concert with Lynelle Harris, is that correct? That's right. That's right. On August 30th at 730 at the soldiers in St. Louis Memorial Hall. The men of the kingdom, which is our men's department at the church and around, they will be sponsoring this benefit concert, which we bring into town, Larnel, who is possibly the top male gospel artists in our country today. He's won every

imaginable award in gospel music. All of them. All of them. If you name him, he's won then. Well, I know that's not his true inspiration for singing. I know he says, Lord, first. Yes, yes. But it must be something that everybody will want to be at at soldiers in St. Louis Memorial. That's right. That's right. More than just singing Larnel ministers. And we have a saying that there's a difference in singing about heaven and singing heavenly music. And Larnel will be singing heavenly music on Sunday night, August 30th. Okay. And this benefits whom? This is a benefit for the family outreach center that's housed in the church and around there in Alacuippa. Primarily, it's a social and recreational arm of the church. And this would be a benefit concert that we might complete the structures there so that we can get some of the youth of our area off the streets. Well, that's always adding Reboulli. If I'm evil, I'm certain it's going to pay for my taking it now. Amen. You're going to play another song for us. We are doing another song. You do that right now. Don't forget, Grammy Award

-winning artist, Larnel Harris, will be in concert, along with the Alacuippa Church and the ground radio concert choir. August 30th at 7 .30 pm, at Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall. For ticket information, simply call 766 -8118. That's all the time that we have for this edition of Black Horizons. I'm Chris Moore saying, tune in to my radio talk show on WCXJ, 1550 on your AM dial every weekday morning from 7 to 10. I'll see you here or hear you there. Bye, Reverend. For me,

in such a special way, and yes, I'd praise you, I'd lift you up, I'd magnify your name. That's why my heart is filled with praise. My heart, my mind, my soul belongs to you. You pay the prize for me. Way back on Calvary, and yes, I'd praise you,

I'd lift you up, I'd magnify your name. That's why my heart is filled with praise. Thank you.

Thank you.