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Project BAIT (Black Awareness In Television) and its television program For My People was initiated as a response to the inequities
in the media. Television was viewed as a way to serve "The Struggle", that is, the Black Power Struggle.
David Rambeau is the executive producer/director and interviewer of For My People, the longest-running program dedicated to the news and public affairs information needs of African-Americans in Detroit. For My People airs weekly on Detroit's WKBD Channel 50. Airing for the first time in 1970, the overall programming focus is community-based public affairs information. In 1971, For My People began a 10-year run on WDET, Detroit's public radio station. For My People airs on WKBD on Saturday mornings from 6.30 a.m. to 7.00 a.m. and at present is a half hour show. For many years the show aired for one hour but has recently returned to its original half hour format.
For My People formerly aired 7-days-a-week on Detroit-based independent cable station, Barden Cable, on channel 67 on a rotating schedule, reaching a possible audience of 119,000 subscribers in the city of Detroit only. Topics for discussion focus primarily on economics/finance, politics, education and social struggle. For My People interviews consist of an African-American Project BAIT interviewee and an African-American guest. Guests are ordinarily from an African-American organization and discuss a topic from the African-American community.
The Project BAIT staff of For My People consists of Project BAIT workshop members who view Project BAIT as a "school" of art and communication. It offers hands-on training and experience in video production among other activities that encourage faculty and students to become actively involved in their community. To demonstate the Afrocentric focus, the host of the interview wears a traditional African dashiki. As expressed by the producer/host/founder, David Rambeau, the Project BAIT Afrocentric ideals are:
- That African-Americans are the focal point of any and all concerns
- That any issue is validated with respect to its impact on the African-American community
- That the discussion format of For My People is not accountable torepresent, nor is it interested in,the Eurocentric viewpoint.
According to Rambeau, For My People is still on the air because it serves Channel 50 as a cover against complaints concerning equal representation within the African-American community.
David Rambeau - The producer of For My People, publisher and editor of the For My People Newsmagazine, and the Urban Theater Magazine. Rambeau also writes
short stories, is a playwright and has been a teacher of Black Studies at the collegiate level at Wayne County Community College, University of Detroit and Monteith College, Wayne State University. Currently television production mentor of interns for Project BAIT. For more on David Rambeau see: http://www.projectbait.blakgold.net/page/62784/index.v3page
Ron Scott, a long time journalist-activist-documentarian in the city. Scott was a co-founder of the Black Panthers chapter here, and he hosted the American Black Journal (see video archive, including '78 interview with Bobby Seale). Now he blogs at Detroit News online, and is a leader of the Detroit Coalition Against Police Bruality. He has spent a life-time fighting against the repressive laws and practices of this corporate government.
Scott has more than 35 years of experience in radio, television, and video production. He is an Emmy Award-winning producer who has completed significant documentary projects on various topics related to current affairs, cultural icons, entertainment, and politics on the North American continent and the Caribbean. He also serves as a member of the Detroit Coalition of the Detroit Council of Elders; the National Lawyers Guild; and is active in numerous other progressive causes nationally and internationally. Ron is also a long time Public Access television producer.
Ron Scott currently blogs at: http://apps.detnews.com/apps/blogs/politicsblog/index.php?bloggerid=75
Mark Wells is an antropologist, social activist and organizer whose interests include studies of the African Diaspora, particularly Brazil, music, history, social, cultural and political issues. He blogs at www.afrobrasilamerica.com. He also hosts another youtube page at www.youtube.com/MrMarques72.
Age
39
Country
United States
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