March 18, 2011

This Week on Our World: Best-selling Author Terry McMillan

This week on Our World with Black Enterprise, host Marc Lamont Hill sits down with best-selling author Terry McMillan to talk about her latest book, Getting to Happy, the long-awaited sequel to Waiting to Exhale, which was also adapted to a hit movie starring Whitney Houston and Angela Bassett. McMillan shares with Hill her views on books currently being published by Black authors and racism in the publishing industry. She also provides candid insights into her life since her painful and very public divorce, and whether she sees another marriage in her future.

Also, in this week’s On The Record segment, Hill talks with journalist Lola Ogunnaike, TheGriot.com Managing Editor David Wilson and TV and Web personality Amanda Diva about the role and impact of Blacks in new media. This week’s Slice of Life profiles gospel star Yolanda Adams‘ new mission to fight hypertension.

Our World with Black Enterprise is the award-winning weekly 30-minute program, hosted by Marc Lamont Hill, providing a fresh mix of interviews with today’s top newsmakers and celebrities, eclectic roundtable discussions concerning the hottest topics affecting African Americans, and profiles of some of the world’s most intriguing people.

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