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Marc Morial – President of The National Urban League

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This week on TALK! with AUDREY: Joining me this week is MARK MORIAL, PRESIDENT of THE NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE.

The 2010 Economic Empowerment Tour featuring the “Restore Our Homes: Housing Rescue Fair and Career Fair” begins and is being held in Atlanta today, October 21st from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Marriott Marquis Hotel, located at 265 Peachtree Center Avenue Northeast in the city’s downtown business district.

The Tour Event offers access to Major Mortgage Lenders, Housing Counselors, and Career Fair with Over 50 Employers, Educational Institutions and Workforce Development Partners.

Last year, Economic Empowerment Tour events helped over 4,672, people, and provided 1,700 job opportunities and counseling for 1,245 homeowners. Many participants were hired on the spot by local employers and all of those counseled in the housing fairs have had their cases moved towards resolution.

The comprehensive, one-stop housing and employment event will provide concerned homeowners direct access to one-on-one sessions with certified Housing Counselors and lending institutions to negotiate resolutions, plus free legal advice, and workshops on sustaining and maintaining homeownership. Job seekers will also have access to immediate job opportunities, career coaching and resume critiques by human resource experts, as well as information on local job training programs. The entire event is free and open to the public.

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Gail Caldwell – Pulitzer Prize Winner and Author of Let’s Take The Long Way Home

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This week on TALK! with AUDREY : Joining me this week is Pulitzer Prize winner GAIL CALDWELL, author of LET’S TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME.

LET’S TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME  is an intensely moving memoir about Caldwell’s own coming-of-age in midlife, she writes frankly about the transition from being a fiercely private person to learning to share her life with an exuberant puppy and a new best friend, Caroline Knapp—a fellow writer, AA member, dog lover, and acute observer of life.


Together these two fiercely private, independent women relax into a friendship more profound than either of them ever expected, one that thrived on their shared interests as well as their parallel struggles with alcoholism and loneliness. They grow increasingly inseparable until Caroline is suddenly diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. Gail Caldwell writes: “It’s the oldest of stories; I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that, too.” Caldwell reminds us what makes friendship central to our lives.

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Musa and Mayer and Donna Pelletier – Living with Metastatic Breast Cancer and National Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day

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This week on TALK! with AUDREY: My guests are (L to R) MUSA MAYER, M.S., M.F.A., a 21-year breast cancer survivor, patient advocate, and lead author of the BRIDGE survey (Bridging Gaps, Expanding Outreach – Metastatic Breast Cancer Patient Survey); and DONNA PELLETIER, a patient living with metastatic breast cancer for five years.

The public face of breast cancer has mainly been focused on survivorship and early detection, with little attention given to the women living with metastatic breast cancer (MBC), the most advanced stage of the disease that has spread beyond the breast to other parts of the body. Through the efforts of breast cancer advocates nationwide, United States Congress passed a national proclamation of October 13th as National Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day.  October 13th symbolizes a call to action to give those living with advanced disease a greater voice and visibility in the breast cancer community.  

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Sherri Sheperd – Disney Dreamer Academy

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This week on TALK! with AUDREY : I have a conversation with talk show host SHERRI SHEPHERD about The Academy and how to nominate a highschool student for the 2011 DISNEY DREAMERS ACADEMY with STEVE HARVEY and ESSENCE MAGAZINE.

Each year, Disney’s Dreamers Academy with Steve Harvey and Essence Magazine brings 100 U.S. high school students to the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida for an immersive 4-day program of career workshops and mentoring – introducing students to leaders in fields as diverse as entertainment, engineering, fashion, sports and publishing.


Nominations for the 2011 Disney’s Dreamers Academy with Steve Harvey and Essence Magazine close in just a few days — October 31, 2010.

As a presenter for the 2010 Disney’s Dreamers Academy, Sheperd saw first-hand the difference it makes a difference in a young person’s life, and wants to make sure students in need in your community know about this one-of-a-kind opportunity. Disney’s Dreamers Academy encourages students to realize the power of their dreams, exposes them to career opportunities, and equips them with tools to succeed.

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Jackson Kaguri – Author of THE Price of Stone

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This week on TALK! with AUDREY : My guest this week is TWESIGYE JACKSON KAGURI, author of THE PRICE OF STONES.

Growing up in rural Uganda, Kaguri overcame poverty to earn a degree from the national university and worked as a human rights advocate, eventually making his way to pursue studies at Columbia University. When he returned to his village in Uganda with his wife, they were overwhelmed by the plight of his village’s many AIDS orphans and vowed to open the first tuition-free school in the district for these children. Faced with many daunting obstacles, including little money, skepticism among friends in both the U.S. and Uganda, corrupt school inspectors, and a lack of supplies, he and his wife doggedly built one classroom after another until they had an accredited primary school filled with students
dreaming of becoming the future doctors, teachers, lawyers, engineers, and even presidents of Uganda.

THE PRICE OF STONES is the stirring story behind the Nyaka AIDS Orphans School. Weaving together tales from his youth with the
enormously inspiring account of the remarkable challenges and triumphs of the school, Kaguri shows how someone with a modest idea is capable of monumental results. 

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Bruce Jenner – Olympic Gold Medalist

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This week on TALK! with AUDREY: I have a conversation Olympic Gold Medalist and DRIVE4COPD Celebrity Ambassador.

Bruce Jenner earned his place among the world’s greatest athletes after breaking Olympic records and bringing America home the gold medal for decathlon in 1976. In his extensive career, Bruce has served as a commercial spokesperson, acclaimed sports commentator, entrepreneur, author and producer.

Recently, Bruce has opened up about his personal life on a reality television series. Until now, however, Bruce and his wife Kris have not shared their family’s personal battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Kris lost both her grandparents to emphysema, a form of COPD. Bruce remembers the tremendous toll the debilitating disease took on his loved ones and the strain it placed on his tight-knit family. Now, he is dedicated to spreading the word about COPD.

COPD is a serious lung disease that makes it harder and harder to breathe. While it can’t be cured, it can be managed and treated, so it’s important to find out if you have COPD. With the right diagnosis and treatment, you can take steps that could help you manage your COPD and breathe better.


With COPD, your lungs do not work as well as they once did. So you find it more and more difficult to breathe. As the disease progresses, your symptoms tend to get worse and more damage occurs in the lungs. This damage is permanent. Chronic bronchitis and emphysema are COPD.


When you talk about chronic bronchitis or emphysema, it’s important to realize that you are really talking about COPD. With COPD, you can have one or both of these conditions. Most patients have both.

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Donna Viale and Jan Ping – Coping With Cancer from The Outside In

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This week on TALK! with AUDREY: People undergoing cancer treatment face a host of challenges each and every day. One specific challenge that many people may face involves dermatologic side effects. Celebrity make-up artist and cancer survivor (R to L) JAN PING and leading oncology nurse PAMELA VIALE join me to talk about an educational campaign, “Coping With Cancer from the Outside In.” which focuses on informing oncology nurses about the dermatologic side effects associated with a type of cancer medicine called epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitors.

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Ted Bell – New York Times Best-Selling Author of Warlord

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This week on TALK! with AUDREY : Joining me this week is New York Times best-selling author TED BELL to talk about his latest thriller WARLORD, the sixth in the spy adventure series featuring counter terrorist ALEX HAWKE.

In WARLORD, counterterrorist operative Alex Hawke is embroiled in an assassination plot against the Royal Family while hunting down a lost nuke in the mountains of Taliban and al-Qaeda infested Afghanistan.

Hawke has all but given up on life. He lost the woman he loved on his last mission, almost a year ago, and he’s been seeking refuge at the bottle of a rum bottle. But His Royal Highness Prince Charles, an old friend, calls on Hawke for help when Charles receives a threat against the lives of his two sons. The threat is signed with the same signature as a suspicious note found in an old book that once belonged to Charles’s godfather—Lord Mountbatten—the beloved family patriarch who was assassinated 30 years prior.


While investigating the death threat, Hawke is tasked to find a way to lock down Pakistan’s nuclear weapon storage facilities. A new terrorist group, “Sword of Allah” has plans to infiltrate and put sleepers inside the arsenal storage facilities at Islamabad. But when Hawke and his team arrive in Pakistan, they learn a nuke has already been stolen from one of the facilities and is in the hands of the most powerful terrorist warlords in the region.


Hawke and his team must race high into the Hindu Kush Mountains of Afghanistan to chase down the loose nuke before it finds its way out of the country and into the heart of America. 

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Dorothea Benton Frank – New York Times Bestselling Author of Low Country Summer

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This week on TALK! with AUDREY :

I have a conversation with New York Timesbestselling author DOROTHEA BENTON FRANK about her newest book LOW COUNTRY SUMMER.

BENTON FRANK returns to South Carolina for her latest novel LOWCOUNTRY SUMMER, the much-anticipated sequel to her second novel Plantation.


LOWCOUNTRY SUMMER is the story of the changing anatomy of a family after the loss of its matriarch, sparkling with the inimitable Dot Frank’s warmth and humor. Benton Frank follows her recent successes with a tale rich in atmosphere and unforgettable scenes of Southern life.


When Caroline Wimbley Levine returned to Tall Pines Plantation, she never expected to make peace with the long-buried truths about herself and her family. The Queen of Tall Pins––her late mother Lavinia––was a force of nature, but now she is gone, leaving Caroline and the rest of the family uncertain of who will take her place. In the lush South Carolina countryside, old hurts, betrayals, and dark secrets surface, and a new generation will rise along the banks of the mighty Edisto River.

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Jessica Francis Kane – Author of The Report

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This week on TALK! with AUDREY :

My guest is JESSICA FRANCIS KANE author of THE REPORT. Ten Years ago, while living in London, Jessica Francis Kane came across a story when she attended an event at the British Library for a series of books published by the London Stationery Office. The series is comprised of official government reports not previously available in popular form and the one the series editor held up in his hand and spoke passionately about was The Tragedy at Bethnal Green.  The Bethnal Green Tube Disaster was the largest civillian accident of World War II, 173 adults and children died in a crowd seeking shelter from an air raid.  No bombs fell in the area that night , so why had the crowd panicked and why did the government withhold information, citing issues of home security?   

FRANCIS KANE‘s novel is a touching exploration of the tragedy and of the way tragedies are reported, remembered and commemorated.