First Lady of Talk
Radio, Roberta Franklin passed
Jan. 5th, 2013
First
Lady of Talk Radio, Roberta Franklin, passed Saturday, Jan. 5th
Roberta Franklin is a seasoned, social justice organizer living in
garnered broad-based support from the general public and and national
officials.
Several years ago, Roberta Franklin began to host a local radio talk show
creating public conversations about hidden prisons and the people incarcerated
in them. Good citizens of
and prison reform.
By attracting a growing public audience of listeners year after year, Roberta
and her wide-open conversations on Let the Truth Shine Radio Show led to
citizen mobilization. Former prisoners, loved ones of inmates and their
community supporters continue to organize today.
Ms. Franklin was named a "Soros Justice Fellow" by the Open Society
Institute in 2004 for her activism in
received the Excellence in Journalistic Broadcasting Award from
TheInternational Bannister Foundation, Critical Resistance South, Southern
Center for Human Rights and the Patrick Crusade at the first Family Members of
Inmates Convention in 2003.
Hosting meetings, marches and rallies that have drawn as many a two thousand
participants, including notable political figures, Roberta Franklin founded and
directs the Family and Friends of People Incarcerated, an organization that
consists of relatives and friends of inmates throughout
Today her radio show is online and people participate from all over the world.
Roberta Franklin's call for a Million Family and Friends of Prisoners March on
13, 2005
has been heard throughout the country.
Her relentless work for social justice brings
of social justice history.
Ms. Franklin passed at her home on
Arrangements will be announced later by the Phillips & Riley Funeral Home.
