Mr. Hooks demonstrates that good conversation, when stripped of all barriers, can provide stimulating television that both entertains and informs.

Besiders interviewing notables and celebrities, The Urban Roundtable will also focus on Inglewood city government activities. Occasionally, city personnel will provide “in-depth” commentary on issues of major importance. In general, The Urban Roundtable will join in promoting a “positive” image of the city as a great place to live, work and play!

Investing Our Own History

Notables from the Entertainment Industry, The Arts and Public Affairs, have a long held tradition of seeking opportunities for “giving back to the community.” Now, The Urban Roundtable offers a chance to give back to the future!

Notables can make this gift in small increments with 20-minute interviews and providing an oral history about their careers, choices, difficulties, triumphs and Life Lessons.

But not even the best interview can transmit a life-time of wisdom in one-sitting. Consequently, notables will be encourage to make periodic return visits to the Roundtable , which will eventually result in a Digital Interview Library of Notable People of Color.

Notables may also submit memorabilia and other pertinent matter they might deem relevant for historical review. This too will be augmented on tape and included in digital library. In short, the Library and your particular place in its catalogs don’t have to be accumulated by “scholars and strangers.” The notable can play a significant role in providing the “who, what and why” of themselves and their role in history which will be documented in the Living History Digital Library.

Help Improve The Present!

Your participation in shaping history can also assist in developing the proposed Inglewood Performing Arts Center, which would be ideally situated next to Hollywood Park Racetrack and The Forum. The Urban Roundtable, seeking to recapture the cultural imprint long associated with Harlem Renaissance during the late twenties and early thirties, feel this project, ideally situated next to LAX can propel Inglewood to its former title of being the entertainment capitol of the Los Angeles Basin.