Breast Cancer Survivor Sheryl Crow is passionate about many causes including women s health issues
It s National Women s Health Week. In the U.S., COVID-19 has resulted in a projected delay of more than 22 million screening tests for cancer and a 20% reduction in oncology visits between March and June 2020.
Now, Grammy Award-Winning Artist and Breast Cancer Survivor Sheryl Crow is encouraging all women to prioritize their critical health exams, schedule their annual mammograms and also spread the word to the women they love to do the same.
Doug Doyle/Zoom Sheryl Crow and Dr. DaCarla Albright in Nashville for a Zoom chat with WBGO s Doug Doyle
Travis M. Andrews has a new biography about Jeff Goldblum
Washington Post features reporter Travis M. Andrews wondered why people stil love actor and jazz musician Jeff Goldblum. He got his answers by looking into the life of the popular actor. A year and a half later, Andrews has come out with a new biography Because He s Jeff Goldblum: The Movies, Memes and Meaning of Hollywood s Most Enigmatic Actor .
Doug Doyle/Zoom Author and Washington Post features reporter Travis M. Andrew chats with WBGO s Doug Doyle about the new biography of Jeff Goldblum
Andrews joined WBGO News Director Doug Doyle for a Zoom chat to discuss his inside information about Goldblum and his favorite aspects of the book published by Penguin Random House.
Taneshia Nash Laird is the President and CEO of Newark Symphony Hall
Newark Symphony Hall, New Jersey s largest Black-led arts and entertainment venue, recently announced Yendor Theatre Company (YTC) as its first company-in-residence. YTC s first production with the venue will be Richard Wesley s Black Terror, co-produced by WACO Theater Center, which is based out of Los Angeles North Hollywood neighborhood.
NationalBlackGuide.com The livestream production of Black Terror is coming to Newark Symphony Hall this summer
The production will be directed by WACO s Co-Artistic Director, Richard Lawson, and will live-stream online this summer.
Newark Symphony Hall President and CEO Taneshia Nash Laird joined WBGO News Director Doug Doyle for a Zoom chat about the new partnership and the upcoming production of Black Terror this summer.
RUST premieres May 18 on PBS
RUST is the third documentary in Newark filmmakers Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno s 3Rs Trilogy on Urban America.
Following the success of critically-acclaimed, award-winning national PBS broadcast REVOLUTION 67 (2007) on riots/rebellions of the 1960 s and THE RULE (2014) on urban school reform, RUST uses Newark, New Jersey as a microcosm to take a deeper look into Rust Belt poverty, racism and mass incarceration while detailing industrialization and deindustrialization. Marylou and Jerome Bongiorno join WBGO News Director Doug Doyle on a Zoom chat to talk about their RUST documentary on PBS
The Bongiornos joined WBGO News Director Doug Doyle for a Zoom chat about RUST which is being screened on May 3 at 7pm. The virtual event hosted by Prudential Financial. More information about that event can be found at www.bongiornoproductions.com.