featured Television INTERVIEWS and Video PROGRAMS

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Timbuctoo was settled by formerly enslaved and free Black people, beginning in 1826. In this  interview broadcast on June 12, 2024,  we discuss the community's history as well as current efforts to preserve, protect and promote Timbuctoo and its legacy. Additional information can be found on www.TimbuctooNJ.com. 

This was NBC 10 Philadelphia Evening News on December 21, 2020.  Here, I discussed my participation in Moderna's  COVID-19 Vaccine trial and the importance of getting vaccinated to help curb the spread of COVID-19. 

This talk was done on Timbuctoo Day in 2015, when I was a relative newbie at Timbuctoo history, acclimating to presenting without slides:-)  Please see the description under the  video screen for important points of clarification. This is 24 minutes long.

I was honored in 2015 with Black Gifted and Whole's James Baldwin Legends Award.  My remarks in response to this  honor are captured in this  3 1/2 minute interview, in which I was asked to explain what the event's theme meant to me. 

During the International AIDS Conference in Washington in July 2012, I had the privilege of appearing on the evening news in Paris to discuss the impact of HIV/AIDS on African Americans, and PrEP, which had been approved by the FDA that month. My interview begins at the 3:02 mark.

This blast from the distant past reminds me of early successes in  engaging Black Churches in  HIV work.  Our event was featured in an 8 minute segment on Visions, including Former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders, Rev. James Forbes, and yours truly, in the first TV interview of my career.