Archive for January, 2009

Hodges University Diversity Festival on Lee Pitts Live

Posted by Shaun on January 23rd, 2009

Fabio Tagliasacchi, Chair, Hodges University Diversity Festival, Leisha Klentzeris, Hodges University Diversity Festival, committee member, and Tari Harris, Dir. Kwanzaa Academy, Immokalee  High will be the featured guests this weekend on Lee Pitts Live. They will discuss the details of the university’s upcoming festival and present a fashion show.

Hodges University has been one of the leaders amongst higher education institutions in Southwest Florida in promoting diversity on their campuses and in the community. One of the cornerstones of their diversity efforts is their annual Hodges University Diversity Festival. This year will mark their second annual festival. The event, which had a very large turnout last year, is free and will take place February 14th at North Collier Regional Park in Naples. For more details, visit www.hodges.edu       

Also on the show gospel rappers Da Bridge and G. Reign will sing their new hit single “The Good Drink”.

“Again, we want to remind our viewers that our Sunday evening show now airs on channel 14 everywhere no longer channel 35 and 23”, states Lee Pitts, host and executive producer of the award-winning Lee Pitts Live.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

The show will broadcast on Comcast Saturday January 24th at 9:30 a.m. channel 8 and Sunday January 25th at 6:30 p.m. on channel 14. For more, visit www.leepittslive.com or call (877) 830-0391.

Lee Pitts Live is the longest running television talk show in Southwest Florida. It is a five- time recipient of the NAACP Image Award, recipient of the Hodges University Diversity Excellence Award and recipient of the Southwest Florida Peoples’ Choice Award

We Cracked 100 on Facebook!

Posted by Jayson on January 22nd, 2009

We now have more than 100 fans on our Facebook page! Thanks to everyone who is a member to the DAP network. We have some excited programming scheduled for next week so stay tuned.

John Walker’s Last Race

Posted by Jayson on January 22nd, 2009

While reading LetsRun.com the other day I stumbled upon this great article, “Thousands buoyed by ‘last race’“, which focuses on John Walker’s goal of giving every South Auckland child a chance to learn to swim. For those of who don’t know, John Walker was the 1500m Olympic Champion in 1976, the first man to break 3:50 in the mile, and the first man in history to run 100 sub-4 minute miles. In 1996, he announced that he was suffering from Parkinson’s disease.