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Caroline Hunter comments on the struggle for African liberation

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Host Topper Carew leads a discussion on the liberation struggle in Mozambique. Carline Hunter comments on the need for African Americans to recognize that the African struggle is their own.

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Corporations, American, Mozambique--History--Revolution, 1964-1975, Civil rights, Segregation, Ceitou, Dinizulu, Hunter, Caroline, Nteta, Christopher, A Luta Continua (Motion picture), African Liberation Day Committee - Boston - Massachusetts, FRELIMO, Pan African Liberation Committee

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Episode 306

Program African Liberation Committee Film

Series Say Brother

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Program Guests Caroline Hunter, Dinizulu Ceitou (both of Boston's African Liberation Day Committee), and Christopher Nteta (of the Pan African Liberation Committee) discuss the liberation struggle in Mozambique with host Topper Carew. Topics include Frelimo (the African freedom fighters in Mozambique), the influence of African American support on the cause, the relationship between corporations and the seizure of African land, the need for violence to achieve liberation, the relationship between racism and colonization, and the need for African Americans to recognize that the African struggle is their own. Program includes a 30-minute film titled "The Struggle Continues (A Luta Continua)," which documents the work of the resistance. Produced by Topper Carew. Directed by Conrad White.

Series 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, Byron Rushing, Owusu Sadaukai, and Sonia Sanchez.

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