STATEWIDE - NJN's Another View looks at the continuing culture of the African-American experience. This spring, Another View offers its second annual Spoken Word Café with Spoken Word artists Helena D. Lewis and Narubi Selah in April, and looks critically at the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education in May. For the March show, host Candace Kelley spends time with Carmen Twillie Ambar, the Dean of Douglas College, and with Stephanie Bush Baskette, the new director of Rutgers University's Joseph Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies and the former chief legal officer for the city of East Orange.

African-American Women Leaders in Education and the Community
Tuesday, March 16, 6:30 pm; rebroadcast Wednesday, March 17, at 11:30 pm
Candace Kelley talks with Carmen Twillie Ambar about her commitment to helping young women pursue their dreams and develop as leaders. Ms. Ambar is the second black dean to lead the nation's largest undergraduate women's college. Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, Ambar was assistant dean for graduate education at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.

In this program, Kelley interviews Stephanie Bush Baskette about her new position and her career. As director of the Joseph Cornwall Center at Rutgers University, Stephanie Bush Baskette is researching innovative ways to fuse academics, policy making and the needs of communities to advance common agendas. Baskette says she was drawn to the position because it mirrors what she has been doing her entire career - providing tools to empower others.

The program features the National Coalition of 100 Black Women chapter presidents Beverly Wellons-Ranton and Rita Williams-Bogar, who describe how the organization strives to assist women to develop a social consciousness and become community leaders.

Spoken Word Café
Tuesday, April 20, 6:30 pm; rebroadcast Wednesday, April 21 at 11:30 pm
Another View sets the stage for performance artists to showcase their talents with the second annual Spoken Word Café. Guests for the April program are Spoken Word artists Helena D. Lewis of Newark, Narubi Selah of Trenton and Rob Hylton of East Orange.

A poetic powerhouse, Lewis is a passionate performer gifted with keen insight. In addition to her career as a spoken word artist, Lewis is a certified alcohol and drug counselor and HIV/AIDS health educator who developed, implemented and supervised a drop-in center for drug-addicted prostitutes for the Community At Risk Reduction Program in Newark.

Selah, born and raised in Trenton, has been writing and performing since the age of nine. She has appeared on stage with KRS One and Lauryn Hill and performed for the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans alongside Iyanla Vanzant and Tavis Smiley. Her performance speaks for itself, ranging from domestic violence to inefficient education within inner city public schools. Aside from performing Spoken Word, recording, writing and acting, Narubi teaches fourth grade in Trenton, New Jersey.

Rob Hylton is a Spoken Word artist and Newark Public High School English teacher. He began performing spoken word in 1995 at The African Globe Theater in Newark and since then has made a name for himself performing at the premier poetry venue Poet's Corner, Serengeti Plains and the Smokin'Word series at Sound's Lounge in Harlem. Hylton is a slam winner at the world famous Nuyorican Soul Cafe in New York and the first runner up in the annual NJ Slam Competition at Serengeti Plains.

Spoken Word combines the traditional forms of oral and written poetry, and the reward is a fresh multi-media experience for eye and ear. As a special feature to the Another View series, the Spoken Word Café
welcomes guests from around the country and highlights the artistry of the spoken word. In a café setting with a live studio audience, Another View features poets who perform original works.

Brown V. the Board of Education
Fifty Years Later - A Dream Deferred?
An Another View Special
Tuesday, May 18, 6:30 pm; Wednesday, May 19, 11:30 pm
This spring in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark Brown V. Board of Education decision ending racial segregation in public schools, Another View looks at the impact of that landmark legislation and its influence on the Civil Rights movement. This Another View special critically examines the current state of public school education and asks the question half a century after Brown - how far have we come and what remains to be done to ensure equal rights for all?

Another View will visit public school classrooms and listen to students, teachers and parents talk about Brown V. the Board of Education and today's educational system. Renowned experts such as Richard Kluger, author of Simple Justice: The History of Brown V. Board of Education; NPR correspondent Juan Williams, author of Thurgood Marshall - American Revolutionary will present their perspectives on this subject of importance to all of us.

Another View is supported by funding from Schering-Plough Corporation. Linda L. Coles is executive producer, Candace Kelley is host and Wayne Bryant Jr. is assistant producer of Another View, NJN's award-winning public affairs program serving New Jersey's diverse ethnic community and covering issues about the African-American experience. Visit NJN's web site at www.njn.net for more information on Another View.