Women Decide to Live True to Themselves

Guest Introductions:  

Hope Foye - She fled to continue her music -  “Red Hope -  the Blacklisting of Hope Foye,” which is nominated for best documentary at the Pan African Film Festival, tells the story of how soprano Hope Foye, was forced to live in exile because of the McCarthy-era interrogations she endured by the House Un-American Activities Committee. An early activist, she fled to Mexico and later to Europe.  She is back in the United States to continue her singing career and an Activist. 

Carolyn Ashe Stokes is an author, educator, and activist.  Her father, Capt. Charles Malcolm Ashe trained some of America's esteemed Tuskegee Airmen.  She's written two books, and working on a third, and encourages all of us to achieve what we want in life, and to "do it now.  This 86 years young activist, she lets nothing slow her down. And if the name Ashe rings a bell it's because her cousin was America's tennis master, Arthur Ashe.