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Say Brother; Paige Academy: An Alternative Education
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03/10/1977
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Paige Academy: An Alternative Education
- Program Number
727
- 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
Program focuses on the work of Paige Academy, a private school in Roxbury for children aged three months to seven years. Hosts Barbara Barrow and Melvin Moore speak with Paige Academy Founder and Director Angela Paige Cook and the Academy's Administrative Producer, Mary Ann Crayton, to discuss the school's origins and practices, such as teaching by the nguzo saba (the seven principles of Kwanza). Program includes slides of Academy students.
- Duration
00:30:00
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Paige Academy (Roxbury, Mass.)
- Public schools
- Crayton, Mary Ann
- Segregation
- Kwanzaa
- Cook, Angela Paige
- African Americans--Education--Massachusetts
- Alternative education
- African American women
- Civil rights
- Alternative schools
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Barbara Barrow (Producer)
- Moore, Melvin (Associate Producer)
- White, Conrad (Director)
- Contributors
- Sullivan, John L. (Assistant Stage Manager)
- Bordett, Bruce (Stage Manager)
- Marshall, Carolyn (Production Secretary)
- Mackles, Gene (Graphic Designer)
- Stewart, Aubrey (Video)
- Wilson, Bob (Camera)
- Kane, Pat (Videotape Recordist)
- Lane, Frank (Camera)
- Horne, Danny (Intern)
- Cross, June (Production Assistant)
- Merhar, Milan (Videotape Recordist)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Host)
- Smith, Lee (Lighting Assistant)
- Morton, Wil (Audio)
- Yang, Eileen (Researcher)
- Songai, Jahid (Intern)
- Valdes, Mario (Researcher)
- Smith, Kathy (Switcher)
- Mahard, Fran (Scenic Design)
- Moore, Melvin (Host)
- Plausse, John (Lighting Director)
- Clarke, Brian (Assistant To The Producer)
- Johnson, Lenita (Intern)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Paige Academy: An Alternative Education,” 03/10/1977, WGBH Media Library & Archives, accessed July 21, 2017, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_45E2470505F54F6F969E0E333E6BF16D.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Paige Academy: An Alternative Education.” 03/10/1977. WGBH Media Library & Archives. Web. July 21, 2017. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_45E2470505F54F6F969E0E333E6BF16D>.
- APA: Say Brother; Paige Academy: An Alternative Education. Boston, MA: WGBH Media Library & Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_45E2470505F54F6F969E0E333E6BF16D