24 7, the Memorial Church helps those in need. Hear how you can help. The reverend and janice katani are here before you finish your Holiday Shopping, learn how to protect your credit. Im susan sikora and that is on bay area focus next. Welcome to the show. Im susan sikora. The fiscal cliff is our newest worry. For some folks, its an everyday matter. They live there and beyond. For their, their survival needs, food, clothe, and shelter is and has been a steady challenge. How it happens varies personto person but they all need compassion and support from those of us who can get it. Glide pem Memorial Church gives it 24 7. Under the pastorship of reverend Cecil Williams, the doors have been open to those who need it. And with his wife, the mayor has made san franciscos glide memorial a welcoming place to feed the hungry and so much more. This holiday season, we welcome back glide founder reverend Cecil Williams and the founder, gloria katani. Thank you for being here. Thank you. So good.
Belva davis was the first africanamerican woman hired as a tv reporter on the west coast. We will talk about her Ground Breaking career. And finally, the belying day is here. Fs jazz is ready to taupe door to their brand new bay area home. I am seuss seuss and that is next. Welcome to the show. I am susan sikora. Look up ground breaker and you should see a picture of belva davis. She defied the odds and became the first africanamerican reporter to work in television on the west coast. It has been quite a journey. What do you love about having worked in the bay area. My god, because the bay area loves me back. That is why. Nothing better than having a romance. When i started in the business, i was asked to do news conferences and i was mistaken for a worker in a fancy hotel more than once. I had people that didnt want to walk down the street with me, photographers, who were not yet ready to being a mixed race couple. You have your gender moments, racial moments. The journalistic moments
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Welcome to bay area focus. I am susan sikora. Students rising above began as a project to help bay area teens with overwhelming odds like homelessness and poverty get to college. The stories are told by a tv anchor who found the students rising above in 1998. Today this awardwinning project is a Nonprofit Group that still make as difference for kids that want to succeed despite huge challenges. Get this, other 4. 1 million has been raised to help 144 kids get to college. And the work still continues. We have wendy here. Welcome. Thank you for having me. 55 kids will go to College Without help this year. Tell me basically, why did you do this in the first place . It seems like the best use of television . I didnt know that it would develop into a nonprofit. I wanted to do story that is talked about what happened to kids growing up in poverty. Then there were kid who is wanted to go to college but never would without any help, so, we asked for viewer to send money in to help them. They n
Hi, i am seuss seuss, welcome to the susan sikora. Welcome to the show. We have kcs radio film critique here, our special film critique. The os cores are coming up, so, she is her to fill us in. I was looking at my top ten and thinking a lot of the ones i like are nominated. Usually that never happens. Nine movies are good. It gives studios a chance to be nominated and independent movie, little ones you would not think you will see up there. So, i really liked the sessions. That is up. And my Favorite Movie offer the year is argo. I raved about it the minute i saw it and now it has a very good chance to win. And the southern wild . Yes. That is an independent movie with the youngest actress ever to be nominated for an award. If she wins she will be a one name star in hollywood. And someone will have to field her over. I think she will win. One thing that makes this year so exciting is the politics involved. Often wednesday of them is Jessica Chastain of zero dark 30. And of course argo