Bsu university pulse radio plus#

Sister Heidi Tucker, Belizean diaspora grassroots organizer Michael Branche, Orland Bishop (BSU) Black Students Union of LACC Ishmael Shabazz, Nuri Akbar, Bilal Morris, Hubert Pipersburgh (LAMB) Los Angeles Muslims of Belize (Note this predated the BCA that was reborn with the same name when musicians and artists Patrick Barrow and Pupa Curly started the popular CayeFest music festival that showcased Belizean artists in the mid-1980s in Los Angeles.)Д®dgar X Richardson (UBAD) United Black Association for Development Rudolf Bent (BCA) Belize Cultural Association. In February of 1985, several Belizean grassroots groups in Los Angeles met at Brother Ishmael ShabazzвЂ™s residence and agreed to form an alliance which gave birth to BREDAA (Belize Rural Economic Development of Agriculture through Alliance). In addition to national agrarian and land redistribution. Hence, it was ironic that a diaspora grassroots group made a historic breakthrough by initiating an independent radio program catering to a Belizean and Caribbean audience in April of 1986.ДЄs important and historic as it was, to some degree the radio show became a distraction from BREDAAвЂ™s principal objective of advocacy for economic development via land rights, ownership and access through agriculture for Belizeans both at home and abroad.

Until 1989, when Amandala publisher Evan X Hyde launched KREM Radio, Belizeans had known only a single, state-run radio station in the nation.

Bsu university pulse radio plus#

When BREDAA became the first and only Belizean diaspora organization to access mass media in the continental United States via its Belize Caribbean Pulse radio show on Pacifica Radio, this achievement brought both adulation and envy, plus new challenges.