Ravyn Hardwick

Professor Thomas
Capstone: News Vision
22 February 2022
Reporter Script

B-roll of U Street in DC ----VO-----

B-roll of restaurants on U Street
B- roll of Ben’s Chili Bowl Mural
B-roll of WHUR Mural
B-roll of WHUR
U STREET IN WASHINGTON DC WAS ONCE
THE HEART OF AFRICAN AMERICAN
CULTURE FOR MANY REASONS. MANY
AFRICAN AMERICANS STILL GATHER
HERE TODAY. ONE OF THESE REASONS IS
TO VISIT THE FAMOUS BEN’S CHILI BOWL
MURAL. HOWARD UNIVERSITY’S WHUR
ALSO HAS A MURAL HERE TOO.

BEN’S CHILI BOWL GIFTED WHUR THE

MURAL LAST YEAR FOR THE STATIONS
MONUMENTAL 50TH YEAR
ANNIVERSARY. WITH IT BEING BLACK
HISTORY MONTH, MANY AFRICAN
AMERICANS SUCH AS ADRIANNA ARMANI
CAN’T HELP BUT ADMIRE THE MURALS
BEAUTY.

TC: 0:35
Font: Adrianna Armani Adrianna Armani/ DC Resident
DC Resident I think this mural really takes a whole nother look
on Black history. It goes from just like the top
influential Black people in our culture. What is
that not to love? That's just like amazing. (:12)

B-roll of Sean Plater at WHUR WHUR AND WHUT GENERAL MANAGER

SEAN PLATER SPOKE TO THE MEANING
BEHIND THE MURAL.

TC: 0:55
Font: Sean Plater Sean Plater/WHUR/WHUT General Manager
WHUR/WHUT General Manager It was important for, again, to celebrate the past
and those that have contributed, but also for our
generations to come. You know to see that I can

B-roll of Ben’s Chili Bowl Mural
B-roll of WHUR Mural
B-roll of murals on U street
Reporter Font: Ravyn Hardwick
Newsvision Reporter
Standing in front of Ben’s Chili Bowl Mural
do it. People who look like me did it and have
come from right here on this campus. (:13)
U STREET IS JUST ONE OF THE MANY
LOCATIONS IN DC WHERE YOU CAN FIND
VIBRANT MURALS SUCH AS THESE THIS
BLACK HISTORY MONTH. YOU MAY EVEN
FIND YOURSELF HAVING A PHOTOSHOOT
IN FRONT OF ONE.
TC: 1:20 (standup)
NO MATTER WHAT YOUR PLANS ARE FOR
THIS BLACK HISTORY MONTH, YOU
CERTAINLY CAN’T GO WRONG VISITING
ANY OF DC’S MURALS DEPICTING BLACK
ART. SUCH AS THE FAMOUS BEN’S CHILI
BOWL MURAL.
I’M RAVYN HARDWICK WITH
NEWSVISION.
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