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The News Argus - Page 6 ENTERTAINMENT mc’s Radio mes WSNC 90.5 FM, located on the campus of Winston-Salem State University, is designed to give students “hands on” experience in the field of radio broadcasting. The station is located on the first floor of the Hall-Patterson Building. It is housed in the Mass Communications Department. It is designed to give students hands - on experience in four areas of radio broadcasting: news, traffic, production, and programming. The station is not limited to only training Mass BLACK REALISM Communication majors. WSNC 90.5 FM is open to train all students regardless of their majors. Community volunteers also work at the station. WSNC 90.5 FM broadcasts 19 hours each day - seven days a week. Our programming includes music, state, local & national news, public affairs programs, and live coverage of WSSU football and basketball games. The majority of these programs are produced by students. Learning radio techniques and skills does not require a lot of time. Here at WSNC 90.5 FM, the staff is comprised of students with several different majors and from all walks of life. If you are interested in the field of radio, you can get your start at the campus radio station. If you have at least two hours of free time a week, you can learn about radio broadcasting. Operating a radio station for 19 hours a day is a major task which requires many people with various backgrounds. If you have an interest in music, news, programming, or adminisu-ative operation, you should stop by WSNC 90.5 FM. Tune in next month when I will discuss WSNC’s programming style. —By JOE WATSON General Manager South Central BY USA SALES hopclessncss of being black and poor in SuffWriter America today. It also explores many points of view of ghetto life. Viewers are given an opportunity to see the world through the eyes of young black people with their nonchalant and accepting attitudes of what is their life. Sprinkled with humor, we can understand the mentalitv of black Central, Los Angeles. ' youth from: "why She is no Claire (‘South Central deals with many they v/car \heir panxs" Huxtable nor a Rorida prevalent in urban black hanging off their SOUTH CENTRAL, a new riveting television show premiered April 5, at 8 p.m., on the Fox network. Newcomer Tina Lifford, stars as an African-American single parent living in the ghetto of South communities.’ Evans; but she is the most realistic poruayal of a Black American Mom on television to dale. Lifford plays Joanne Mosely, an intelligent, strong, caring parent who has been to hell and back. She has two children, an adolescent son, Andre; an adolescent, younger daughter, Tasha; and a small preschool foster child, Dion. In the premiere episode, viewers learn that her oldest son, Marcus, was killed by gangbangers and drug dealers on the stieet5. South Central deals with many issues prevalent in urban black communities: unemployment, gangs, teen sexuality and the frustrations and butts” to their casual expression of the word “bitch” to describe women. Creators Michael J. Weithorn and Ralph Farquhar attempt to do with South Central what Harriet Beecher Stowe did with Uncle Tom’s Cabin, they give the people of Los Angeles faces and character that we may gain a better understanding and through this understanding better relations with each other. If you can identify with the people of South Central you can gain strength and insights. If you don’t identify with the show, hopefully you will become more enlightenea ana educated. Bumpin’ Beats For The Streets — By Traci Tiera A. King 1. The Brand New Heavies Dream On 2. Us3 Cantaloop Flip Fantasia 3. Domino Sweet Potato Pie 4. Meshelle N’ Degocchelo Dread Loc 5.The Funky Poets Lessons Learned 6. Simple E Play My Funk (Sugar Hill sound track) 7. Diana King Stir Up 8. Heavy D Got Me Waitin’ 9. All 4 One I Swear 10. Aaliyah Back n Forth On the Come Back Q-Tip 1. Terminator X f/ Whodini....lt All Comes Down To The Money 2. Dougie Fresh Freak 3. Run D MC Down With The King 4. Jody Waltey When A Man Loves A Woman 5. Kool G Rap and Polo Killer Cuts 6. Treacherous 3 Old School Salor 7. Gang Star.....Hard To Earn 8. Keith Sweat Get Up On It 9. Hammer It’s All Good * Coming Releases Due Out Mid-Summer * Slick Rick Dr. Dre & Ice Cube Summer Reading Suggestions BY TRACI TIERA A. KING Staff Writer “Summertime and the Living is easy.” The News Argus Staff would like to suggest some books that might help you unwind during the lazy, hot summer months. These books vary in price and may be found at your locally Black owned bookstores or other local bookstores. BOOK REVIEW 1. Coffee Will Make You Black by April Sinclair 2. Selected Poems by Rita Dove 3. Single and Black by Dr. Larry Davis 4. In Search of Serenity by Patti Renee Rose 5. The Malcolm X Photo Book: Make It Plain edited by Cheryll Y. Greene 6. Every Shut Eye Ain’t Sleep by Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton 7. A History of African Americans Artists by Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson 8. In The Spirit: Inspirational by Susan L.Taylor PICG
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