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'An awesome forum for African American issues': Urban Outlook receives Communication Award

Urban Outlook has been a show on NewsChannel 5+ for more than 20 years
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — On Saturday, the African American Heritage Society hosted their 23rd annual Black Tie Affair at 7:00 p.m. in the Embassy Suites in Cool Springs.

Each year, AAHS presents an award to groups or individuals in the community for their accomplishments — and this year, NewsChannel 5+ and April Eaton received a "Communication Award" for Urban Outlook, a show that has been on NewsChannel 5+ for over 20 years!

Urban Outlook talks about the issues impacting the African American Community, and the possible solutions. The latest episode was about the Nashville Conference on African-American History and Culture.

A statement to April Eaton, host of Urban Outlook, from AAHS reads:

Urban Outlook is an awesome forum for African American issues and we thank you for inviting us to share our stories on the Channel 5 network. We appreciate your support to our community and your continued support to our organization. We commend you for your accomplishments and wish you much success as you continue your journey in a profession that is essential and paramount to our world today.

AAHS's mission is to chronicle the lives and contributions African Americans have made in Williamson County, and to collect, preserve and interpret artifacts that pertain to African American History in Williamson County.

For more of Urban Outlook, visit our webpage dedicated to these shows.

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Young or old, we all love to play board and card games! Those games become even more important when you are indoors and don't have the ability to get outside, like patients in a hospital. Austin Pollack shares the story of students in a Nashville family who have helped re-launch the Red Wagon project to collect games for patients at the Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt.

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