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Say the words "Atlantic Beach, SC" and most people familiar with the place most likely will think of the major challenges that the town and some of its leaders have faced in recent years.  But from the 1940s through the 1970s, Atlantic Beach was a recreation and relaxation mecca for African Americans in the Southeast United States. It was the height of the Jim Crow era, and African Americans were barred from white beaches and other public recreational facilities. That meant that Atlantic Beach or "The Black Beach" as it was often called, was the only beach African Americans could visit and enjoy. Millions of African Americans visited the beach each year.

The current edition of Insight is documentary feature that includes interviews with people who visited the beach during its heyday, those who have lived on Atlantic all their lives, and town leaders who discuss the past, present and future of the town.

http://townofatlanticbeachsc.com/Home_Page.html

Insight airs Mondays and Wednesdays at 10 a.m., 7 p.m. and midnight.

 

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When I was 14 years old, I watched my father pass away from stomach cancer at the age of 39. That began a series of losses of male relatives and friends at relatively young ages – 20s through 50s – that have left me almost obsessed with the idea of men’s health and men’s mortality, especially African American men. That’s because of the tragic loss of brothers who were making and poised to make significant contributions to their families and communities - voids that in some cases could have been prevented. That led me to issue a strong message to all men, but especially African American men, in observance of Men’s Health Month.

Download and listen to my commentary here.

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In recent decades, men have shown poorer health outcomes across all racial and ethnic groups as well as socioeconomic status, according to the Men’s Health Caucus of the American Public Health Association.  But this is particularly true for African American men. Educating men and boys, their families, and health care providers about the importance of early detection of male health issues - including cardiovascular, mental, prostate heath, and cancer (lung, prostate, skin, colorectal, testicular, and more), HIV/AIDS, osteoporosis - can result in reducing rates of mortality for male-specific diseases, as well as improve the health of America’s men and its overall economic well-being. The premature death and disability of men and boys is a serious and expanding public health issue

June is Men’s Health Month, and on the current edition of Insight, Bhakti Larry Hough interviews Dr. William Hughes, a semi-retired urologist living in the Conway area of South Carolina, about the status of men’s health in general, and African American men's health, in particular.

Insight airs Mondays and Wednesdays at 10 a.m., 7 p.m. and midnight.

 

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Many people have asked us about putting our playlist on air. We are currently testing and experimenting with an online playlist service called Spinitron that does just that. Eventually, the playlist will be incorporated into our website, but in the meantime you can find it here. We are working on getting all of the song data updated so that all songs will display the song title, artist, and record label. Give us a few weeks to get that process completed and then you'll be able to see everything we play.

Since this is a test, we would appreciate your feedback. You can either leave that here under this post, send it to by email at info@wlgi.org, or leave your thoughts on our Facebook page.

Once on the WLGI Spinitron page, there are a number of helpful places you can go:

  • The Current playlist is the landing page for link above, and is available in the navigation box on the left from any of the WLGI pages on Spinitron. This will display most of the songs that have played in the current show.
  • To find songs that played on an earlier show, or on another day, simply click on the date in the small calendar in the left-hand navigation box, look for the show or time frame that you heard the song, and then look for the particular time and you'll find the song - if we have the data entered for it.
  • Another option to look for songs, or to just browse what was aired, is to click on Program schedule in the navigation box. Then you can select which show you want to see the playlists for, and then click on the date.
  • A whole other way to look at the playlist is by Artists, Disks, or Labels. These links are also in the left-hand navigation box. This way you can look to see what songs we play from a particular artist.

Please tell us what you think and how we might be able to make this better.

 

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Good news overall - our phone system is back up, no damage from Andrea, at least so far.

Our phone system was back on line Thursday afternoon after some new replacement equipment arrived. It is great to be connected again.

We stayed on the air all night through the worst of Andrea, which means the electricity stayed up too. The station is in a very rural area and we often lose power with strong winds - a tree somewhere seems to always fall. And so far, with the storm mostly past us, there have been no problems. As I write this, in fact, the sun is shining.

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