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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:02:24 EST
From: DAnder2382@aol.com
Reply-To: DAnder2382@aol.com
Subject: ABC News looking for Amazing Black Families
To: ssw.students@umich.edu, ssw.dso@umich.edu,
ssw.faculty@umich.edu,
ssw.staff@umich.edu, ssw.lgbt@umich.edu
To: black-ivy@yahoogroups.com
>Cc: johnstj@abc.com
>Subject: [black-ivy] ABC News looking for Amazing Black Families
>
>
>Hello All-
>
>I'm Janice Johnston, Princeton '92. I'm a Producer for Good Morning
>America. I've posted on the list before- and have cast folks from the
>list in different GMA / ABC News series (most recently a
>Spelman/Harvard BS grad,
>Adrienne Lance Lucas, in a series on Atlanta women that aired in
January).
>I'm currently producing a week long series (that airs in two weeks) on
>Amazing Families. These are families that triumphed over some family
>tragedy and started a foundation for others... Took a year off from
school
>and jobs to bike across the country together.... Have three sets of
twins
>under 5.... you get the idea. Most of our families come from viewer
>entries
>but I have not found any families of color that "amaze" me.
>
>Do you have any ideas? The family can be located anywhere in the US.
>I considered the Rev. W.C. Martin and Mrs. Donna Martin -- The Bennett
>Chapel
>Baptist- the black church in TX that encouraged their congregation to
>adopt-
>and the church now boasts 70 kids adopted... or brothers Hans and Ivan
>Hageman who started a school in Harlen-- but we've already done
stories
>on BOTH of these amazing black families on GMA.
>
> Perhaps you know about a family of successful black artists that
>owns a gallery and teach at a university, or a black family where two
>or three generations are currently enrolled in college together, or a
>family where all the members sing with the D.C. Opera company... I'm
>looking for people that are successful, have an "amazing" family
>story... and are not already extremely famous- Like the tennis playing
>William sisters.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated. Let's get our stories told!
>Please email me back at my work address Johnstj@abc.com and feel
free
>to forward this to your friends, family- other interested parties.
>
>Thank you in advance,
>
>Janice Johnston
>212-456-1574 (w)
>Princeton '92, UVA Law '95
respectfully submitted,
Derrick L. Anderson, MSW
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