TruthWorks Network announces “Blanche ! “ Hosted by Acclaimed Talker, Blanche Williams

A Talk Radio Outside the Matrix

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  

“Blanche has found her voice, because leadership is a choice and greatness is achieved through character and contributions.” —Dr. Stephen Covey

TruthWorks Network – November 13, 2013

 TruthWorks Network is proud to present a new and exciting addition to the broadcast experience . . . “Blanche ! “.  A live talk radio program hosted by acclaimed talk radio moderator, Blanche Williams. “Blanche !” brings to radio an ongoing dialogue, discussions and guest to elevating audiences, organizations, and individuals to perform at their highest and greatest potential. Using her outstanding skills to transpose issues embedded in current events, Blanche navigates Black talk radio outside the matrix.

She leverages her abilities, skills, education and experience to elevate her listeners by expanding their perspective, supporting their vision, and holding them accountable. Blanche believes, “Being bold has magic and that service must be joyful.

 “Blanche !” premieres December 30, 2013 at 10 pm ET Live. The call-in program airs LIVE  Mondays 10 pm ET on TruthWorks Network   www.blogtalkradio.com/TruthWorks.

 An archive of each episode of “Blanche !” will be available for on-demand listening immediately following the show or listeners can subscribe to the archives via the RSS feed located on the host page at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/TruthWorks. Read more about the host and the discussion on Blanche ! at www.truthworksnetwork.wordpress.com

 About Blanche Williams

 Experienced broadcast media professional     Transformational Leader         Author

  Blanche Williams, M.S. is recognized as a transformational leader, speaker, facilitator, trainer, educator, scriptwriter, and broadcast media professional. She has a proven track record for elevating audiences, organizations, and individuals to perform at their highest and greatest potential.

 Greatness By Design, LLC, specializes in performance improvement, leadership development, team building, motivational speaking, human optimization, integrated talent management and coaching. We hold a strong affiliate relationship with Internal Impact, LLC, known for its stellar organizational consulting, coaching and ICF coach Training. Our clients include government agencies, small business, corporations, executives, educational institutions, professionals, and non-profits.

Ms. Williams earned her stellar broadcasting reputation as pioneeringNational XM Satellite Radio Talk Show Host of Greatness By Design. For over 7 years, she conducted interviews with high profile and distinguished guests, including Dr. Stephen Covey, Maya Angelou, Charles OsGood, Quincy Jones, Suze Orman, Laila Ali, Kerry Washington, Nancy Wilson, Iyanla Vanzant, Dr. Dorothy Height, Sonny Rollins, Geoffrey Canada, Dr. Ruth Simmons, Janice Bryant-Howroyd, Deepak Chopra, and others.

 The Blanche A. Williams “Greatness By Design” Radio Collection has been archived at the Howard University Moorland Spingarn Research Center in Washington, DC. This collection includes historical talk show recordings dating back to January 20, 2003 when Greatness By Design with Blanche Williams first aired nationwide. They include once in a lifetime conversations archived for generations to come.

 Williams skills also include scriptwriting, editing, and producing for other well-known national talk radio personalities. Her creative productions included conducting provocative roundtables and covering historical events such as the 2008 Democratic National Convention’s Presidential Nomination of Barack Obama in Denver followed by front row live coverage of the 2009 Presidential Inauguration in Washington, DC. She has an amazing archive of interviews.

 About TruthWorks Network

 In a 1985 interview with Janice Graham, the founder of TruthWorks Network, Dr. Amos Wilson said this, “ If we do not persist to talk with each other in respect in regard to our condition  we cannot expect to ever raise ourselves up  . . .  independent conscious talk show like give us that opportunity, to organize, regroup and build consensus and affirmation. It assists us in raising ourselves up  . . .  there are dire consequences when we do not engage in honest and serious dialogue with each other, if we do not ultimately we  head toward total demise.”

 TruthWorks Network offers programming which values, maximizes and includes the special perspectives of Black American.  Ours is a platform and microphone for the “Black truth” on America.  It is a place where we come to examine, declare our injury, heal ourselves and prepare for new battles with new solutions.  At TruthWorks, we dare to believe in the Power of Truth.

 About BlogTalk Radio

Launched in 2006, at  BlogTalk Radio which offers a unique technology and seamless integration with leading social networks enables voices and opinions in a public worldwide forum. Featured network guests include: President Barack Obama, Francis Ford Coppola, Maya Angelou, David Baldacci, and many more. BlogTalkRadio has been featured on ABC News, The Washington Post, Portfolio, Talkers Magazine, and TheStreet.com.

Janice Graham

TruthWorks Network/CEO and Executive Producer

twn@truthworksnetwork.com

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“Commentaries on the Time Radio with Playthell Benjamin Radio”  welcomes Dr. Basil Wilson, Culture and Political Scientist as Co-Host

TruthWorks Network Executive Producer, Janice Graham announces the addition of Dr. Basil Wilson as co-host of the weekly broadcast of “Commentaries On the Times Radio”. Dr. Wilson, a frequent commentator on the program since its premiere in February, 2013 joins host and journalism colleague, Playthell Benjamin.

ABOUT   PROVOST  BASIL   WILSON

Professor Basil “Bagga” Wilson, is a retired provost of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. Basil Wilson spent his formative years in the class-variegated community of Eastern Kingston. He attended Vaz Preparatory School and later on Kingston College, where he represented the school in cricket and football. He graduated from Kingston College in 1961 and migrated to the United States in 1962. In that year, he enrolled at Queens College where he completed a B.A. and an M.A. in Political Science.

In 1972, Basil Wilson was accepted into the Political Science doctoral program at the City University Graduate Center. He completed his doctoral studies in 1979 and his dissertation was titled, Surplus Labor and Political Violence in Jamaica: The Dialectics of Political Corruption.

Basil Wilson began his academic career at John Jay College of Criminal Justice where he taught from 1974 to 1990. In 1990, he was appointed Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, a position he held from 1990 to 2006. He was appointed Professor in Residence at The City University Graduate Center from 2006 to 2008, where he taught in the Department of Sociology. After retiring from the City University in 2008, he was appointed Dean of the Graduate Program in Criminal Justice at Monroe College. The M.S. in Criminal Justice was initiated in Fall 2009 and is offered on the Bronx and New Rochelle campuses, Monroe College.

Currently he’s the Dean of the Criminal Justice Graduate Program, Monroe College  Bronx, New York. Served as Provost and Senior Vice President of Academic Affairs, John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. Chairman Dept. of African American Studies, John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Professor of Political Science, Dept. of African American Studies- John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He received Everybody’s Caribbean Magazine Award, for his frequently columns and commentary as writer on cultural issues affecting the diaspora for Everybody’s Caribbean Magazine. His teaching experience includes African-American History, Black Social and Intellectual Thought, Race, Culture and Globalization. Dr. Wilson, Ph.D. Political Science from the City Graduate Center, City University of New York  has written extensively on the culture and development of Jamaican music as it relates to the diaspora for more than four decades.

In 1989, he co-authored with Prof. Charles Green, Hunter College, the study, The Struggle for Black Empowerment in New York City: Beyond the Politics of Pigmentation. Other publications include “Changing Demographics and the Unchanging Nature of Power in New York”, “The Rise of the Caribbean Middle Class in South-east Queens”, “Marches on Washington and the Black Protest Movement” and “Jamaican Posses and Organized Crime”.

His publications include the coauthored book with Professor Charles Green of Hunter College. The Struggle for Black Empowerment in New York City: Beyond the Politics of Pigmentation (1991), a monograph, David Dinkins and the Goliaths of New York City (African American Research Institute, 1991). In Summer 2003, he published with Camille Gibson an article “Organized Crime and Jamaican Posses” that appeared in Waddabaggei. the Caribbean Journal based at Medgar Evers College. Another co-authored article with Charles Green, “Changing Demographics and the Unchanging Nature of Power in New York City” will appear as a book chapter in the edited text by Professor Gayle Tate on Urban Politics. At the International Conference on Criminal Justice held in Bucharest, Romania, June 6 – 11, 2004 he presented a paper on “The Homicidal Crisis in Jamaica and the Sub-Culture of Violence.”

For the last 15 years, Provost Basil Wilson has written a weekly column for Carib News. He presently writes a blog on international soccer that is posted on Futbolr.com. He appears occasionally as a commentator on radio programs in Jamaica and in the New York metropolitan area.

He is married to Phyllis Wilson, formerly of Air Jamaica, and they are the parents of three children, Natasha, Makonnen and Mabricio. They presently reside in Baldwin, New York.

ABOUT COMMENTARIES ON THE TIMES RADIO

“Commentaries On the Times Radio” broadcasts each Thursday at 10pm LIVE and Call-In. The program discusses matters of current domestic and international politics and events, issues of culture throughout the Diaspora, sports and personalities in the news.  Based on the writings of the hosts, the contemporary events and reports are placed in the context of history and culture. Playthell Benjamin, introduces topics and shares the week’s entry into his weekly E-Zine, “Commetaries On the Times” (www.commentariesonthetimes.wordpress.com each week. Dr. Wilson highlights issues with an examination of history, culture and political intersection of contemporary events. The duo offers intriguing examination and exchange commentary and analysis of world and domestic issues with carefully researched and informed historical background of the issues of day, including Black history, art, music and current events and people. Benjamin brings a scope of 40 years of outstanding journalism and broadcasting to TruthWorks.  As a former pioneer in the development of Black Studies programs and pundit broadcasting, he comes to a microphone with tremendous knowledge, insight and passion.  Of his products, he labels his wordsmith products as, “Praising Saints, Celebrating Heroes, Unmasking Charlatans, Defending the Defenseless and Chastising Scoundrels”. We expect that his show will be no less.

“Commentaries on the Time Radio with Playthell Benjamin and Dr. Basil Wilson” Radio broadcasts LIVE on Thursdays 10pm ET at www.blogtalkradio.com/TruthWorks 

Learn More

“Commentaries on the Time Radio with Playthell Benjamin and Dr. Basil Wilson” Radio

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Commentaries On the Times

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Email: Playthell Benjamin   COTT@truthworksnetwork.com

About TruthWorks Network

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