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Speaker 1: Hello world, You're tuning into Amplify Color and I'm your host,

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Speaker 1: Ryan Cameron, Georgia and Black Radio Hall of Famer and

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Speaker 1: the Voice of Atlanta. During the course of this season,

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Speaker 1: I'll share the stories of black trailblazers who forever changed.

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Speaker 2: The medium of radio.

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Speaker 1: These are empowering profiles of individuals who left an undeniable

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Speaker 1: impact on the radio industry despite the uphill battles and

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Speaker 1: challenges they faced. From the very first black American DJ,

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Speaker 1: Jack L. Cooper and the first black owned radio station WERD,

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Speaker 1: to groundbreakers like P. D. Green who changed what could

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Speaker 1: be said on air. And tonight I'm gonna tell it

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Speaker 1: like it is because I'm gonna give you P D.

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Speaker 3: Green interpretation of Black history.

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Speaker 1: From renaissance women Kathy Hughes and Deanna Williams to the

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Speaker 1: DJs who helped the underground go mainstream. Welcome once again

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Speaker 1: to the world famous mister Magic and rapper Jack, and

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Speaker 1: of course I am Sir Jesus. And then go worldwide.

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Speaker 3: What's up? This is wk C stch on Sean. My

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Speaker 3: name is about Beata GLASSI Akao, Bob Love, and of

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Speaker 3: course we've got great stories about the larger than life,

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Speaker 3: personalities you know and love on the air today, Mike

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Speaker 3: Big Boy, Wendy Williams.

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Speaker 1: People saying that it sounds like I'm having a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun here on the radio and.

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Speaker 2: I am Robin Quivers.

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Speaker 1: Life is great except for all the stuff that sucks

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Speaker 1: and Charlemagne the God? Who is this guy coming on

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Speaker 1: our always talking crazy about our artists? Who is the

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Speaker 1: decades before the Internet and TV, radio connected people like

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Speaker 1: and never before. But just because everyone got to enjoy

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Speaker 1: radio didn't mean that everyone got to participate. In this

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Speaker 1: season of Amplify Color, I'll shed light on how African

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Speaker 1: Americans refused to be denied an opportunity behind the mic

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Speaker 1: and in the boardroom, and how radio would never be

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Speaker 1: the same. Want to tune in?

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