Xernona Clayton Gives Advice To Black Media Of Today

Juneteenth is a now-annual Black vacation the place our tradition is inspired to seek out methods and actions that honor those that’ve allowed us to advance all through trendy society amidst racial adversity. Whether or not grilling out or having fun with a day in as a result of paid day without work, the last word aim is that your time is spent understanding all of the beauties and intricacies that include Black tradition.

Bounce TV spent the event this previous Monday (June 19) airing a ravishing documentary on the lifetime of civil rights icon and Black broadcast maven, the incomparable Xernona Clayton.

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Merely titled Life In Black And White, the function doc takes you thru many a long time of a life well-lived and served to our group when it got here to establishing civil rights and highlighting Black folks as royalty on the whole. On the present younger age of 92, with plans for a summer season birthday proper on the horizon, it seems Mrs. Clayton is barely simply getting began in carrying out what she’s devoted her life to doing.

Learn up extra on Xernona Clayton: Life In Black And White under, through the official Bounce TV press launch:

“From her modest beginnings in Muskogee, Oklahoma, Clayton has made it her life’s work to advertise racial understanding. Instructed from her perspective, in addition to by means of the eyes of household and pals, ‘Xernona Clayton: A Life in Black and White’ will highlight the one that over her unbelievable profession grew to become the primary Black lady within the South to have her personal TV present, helped write the blueprint to desegregate hospitals within the South and even satisfied a KKK Grand Dragon to surrender his place in addition to the group.

‘Xernona Clayton: A Life In Black And White’ will likely be a sublime march by means of Clayton’s almost century-long life, from her years working as an aide and shut good friend with Dr. Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King, by means of her pioneering broadcasting profession with Ted Turner, which led to the creation of the Trumpet Awards. Designed by Clayton to acknowledge the excellent accomplishments of African People and people who have succeeded towards nice odds and impressed success in others, the Trumpet Awards proceed to this present day and just lately celebrated its thirtieth anniversary.”

We had the glory of being invited to an early screening of the documentary, along with having a fast chat with the lady herself. Though our time with Mrs. Clayton was temporary, the message she left us with, and the Black media world at complete, was one thing that we expect will all the time maintain true.

Watch our temporary chat with Mrs. Xernona Clayton under, and make sure you catch an airing of her new documentary, Life In Black And White, on Bounce TV and at present within the community’s Brown Sugar streaming app: