I will be featured in the new television series "Crossing Cultures/Changing Lives" starting May 5

“Crossing Cultures/Changing Lives” Debuts May 5

“Crossing Cultures/Changing Lives,” a 10-part television series on race, ethnic relations, and change, will premier on Monday, May 5, on WBEC-BECON TV. The first half-hour program, titled “Color is a Family Matter,” features families in which parents and children are of different races and/or skin color; use of the visual arts; and oral histories on the civil rights era. Throughout the month it will air at 12:30pm Mondays, 9pm Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30pm Saturdays and 1:30 pm Sundays.

In the Boca Raton-West Palm Beach area, BECON broadcasts on channel 97; in Broward, channel 19; on digital cable, channel 40; in Miami-Dade County, channels 19, 16 or 24; if no cable, channel 63. The full listing of channels is available on the website: www.becon.tv. The site also includes a telephone number (877-TV-BECON) for viewers to make comments about the show.

The series is produced and hosted by Kitty Oliver, an author, historian, veteran South Florida journalist and educator. A former member of the faculty of the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, she is currently a student in the Ph.D. program in comparative studies. For more information on this television series, please contact Kitty Oliver at oliverko@aol.com or visit her website at http://www.kittyoliveronline.com/

I will appear in the last episode -- more to come on the exact date and time!