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Say Brother; Islands, The

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07/16/1976


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Series
Say Brother
Program
Islands, The
Program Number

621

Series Description

Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers including: Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Thomas Atkins, Amiri Baraka, Doris Bunte, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farrakhan, Nikki Giovanni, Odetta Gordon, Henry Hampton, Benjamin Hooks, Jesse Jackson, Hubie Jones, Mel King, Eartha Kitt, Elma Lewis, Haki Madhubuti, Wallace D. Muhammad, Charles Ogletree, Babatunde Olatunji, Byron Rushing, Owusu Sadaukai, and Sonia Sanchez. Series release date: 7/15/1968

Program Description

First program of two focusing on the political, cultural, educational, religious, and economic aspects of the Caribbean Islands. Hosts Barbara Barrow and Dighton Spooner speak with Dr. Tony Martin (author of Race First, from Greenwood Press), Joseph Peltier (member of a movement for a new Dominica), Franz Minuty (a lecturer on Haitian culture), and Kenneth A. Loftman (a former educator in the West Indies and businessman in Boston), about political happenings in Dominica, the impact of the tourist industry on the islands, if interregional trade is improving, the natural resources of the area, how change in the Caribbean change will affect its people and resources, Desmond Trotter (a Black political prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment in Dominica), and education in the West Indies. Program includes a short narrated segment on "Carnival" in Trinidad.

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Subjects
Civil rights
Minuty, Franz
Peltier, Joseph
Segregation
West Indies--Description and travel
Trotter, Desmond
Loftman, Kenneth A.
Martin, Dr. Tony
Genres
Magazine
Topics
Race and Ethnicity
Creators
White, Conrad (Director)
Marita Rivero (Producer)
Rivero, Marita (Producer)
Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Associate Producer)
Contributors
Koppel, Tiit (Lighting Assistant)
Kramer, Sharon (Graphic Designer)
Mahard, Fran (Scenic Design)
White, Don (Video)
Smith, Lee (Camera)
Clarke, Brian (Intern)
Bourne, Wendell (Intern)
Watson, Ed (Theme Music)
Holden, Dick (Camera)
Hutton, David (Videotape Editor)
Kane, Pat (Videotape Recordist)
Charette, Bill (Assistant Cameraman)
Allen, Lydia (Intern)
Floyd, Mike (Switcher)
Bundy, Kissette (Intern)
Cross, June (Production Assistant)
John, Whitmore (Still Photography)
Spangler, Jennifer (Audio)
Plausse, John (Lighting)
Crane, David (Videotape Editor)
Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Host)
Chigas, Basil (Stage Manager)
Spooner, Dighton (Researcher)
Citation
Chicago: “Say Brother; Islands, The,” 07/16/1976, GBH Archives, accessed April 26, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_0AAEAFE750FB476B8142777ABF12D2F1.
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