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Say Brother; Black Arts; Boston based artists discuss the meaning of Black art
Part of Say Brother.
06/13/1969
In this clip host Jim Spruill leads a discussion among 17 Boston-based artists on what Black art is and to whom the Black artist speaks. Group assembled includes Orma Jo Flint, Steve Hussein, Hakim Jami, Bob Nellums, Joanne Robinson, Robert Ruff, Joanne Sanders, Ralf Coleman, Ali Yusef, Carolyn Fitchert, Charles Holley, Gary Rickson, Dana Chandler, Jr., Lovett Thompson, John Wilson, and Elma Lewis. Program includes stills of the work of featured painters and sculptors woven into the discussion, with featured performances by the musicians, dancers and poets. Featured performers include Ali Yusef Trio and the Negro Repertory Theatre. Produced by Ray Richardson. Directed by Stan Lathan.
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Black Arts
- Program Number
34
- Title
Boston based artists discuss the meaning of Black art
- 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
Host Jim Spruill leads a discussion among 17 Boston-based artists on what Black art is and to whom the Black artist speaks. Group assembled includes Orma Jo Flint, Steve Hussein, Hakim Jami, Bob Nellums, Joanne Robinson, Robert Ruff, Joanne Sanders, Ralf Coleman, Ali Yusef, Carolyn Fitchert, Charles Holley, Gary Rickson, Dana Chandler, Jr., Lovett Thompson, John Wilson, and Elma Lewis. Program includes stills of the work of featured painters and sculptors woven into the discussion, with featured performances by the musicians, dancers and poets.
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- African American artists--Massachusetts--Boston
- Yusef, Ali
- Nellums, Bob
- Coleman, Ralf
- Wilson, John
- Artists and community--Massachusetts--Boston
- Robinson, Joanne
- Hussein, Steve
- Ruff, Robert
- Negro Repertory Theatre
- Civil rights
- Segregation
- Holley, Charles
- Fitchert, Carolyn
- Thompson, Lovett
- Flint, Orma Jo
- African American arts
- Chandler, Dana, Jr.
- Jami, Hakim
- Artists--Social conditions
- Saunders, Andrea
- Rickson, Gary
- Ali Yusef Trio
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Lark, Tony (Associate Producer)
- Bright, Hazel V. (Associate Producer)
- Richardson, Ray (Producer)
- Lathan, Stan (Director)
- Ferguson, Andrew (Associate Producer)
- Contributors
- Ferguson, Andrew (Audio)
- Spruill, Jim (Host)
- Rogers, Steve (Video)
- Norton, Chas (Lighting Director)
- Loerzel, David (Audio)
- Gomez, Jewelle (Production Assistant)
- Cabot, Ellen (Production Assistant)
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Black Arts; Boston based artists discuss the meaning of Black art,” 06/13/1969, GBH Archives, accessed April 19, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_2916D24515CB42B6B4CF102FD321ACD9.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Black Arts; Boston based artists discuss the meaning of Black art.” 06/13/1969. GBH Archives. Web. April 19, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_2916D24515CB42B6B4CF102FD321ACD9>.
- APA: Say Brother; Black Arts; Boston based artists discuss the meaning of Black art. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_2916D24515CB42B6B4CF102FD321ACD9