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Say Brother
Say Brother is GBH’s longest-running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, now known as Basic Black. In April 2000, the GBH Archives in Boston was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Archives and Special Collections Preservation and Access grant to arrange, describe, and reformat master Say Brother programs dating from 1968 to 1982 to keep the collection accessible. GBH welcomes you to explore this invaluable programming, whether performance, political commentary, or conversations with distinct voices from the African American community.
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The Art of Black Dance and Music perform dances from the harvest festival Kwanzaa
Assassination of Amilcar Cabral
Australian aborigines visit Franklin Park
Barbara Barrow comments on Judge Garrity's altered desegregation plan
Ben Lee comments on employment in Chinatown garment industry
Beverly Smith redefines politics in light of the feminist movement
Billy Wilson
Black Nativity
Black Solidarity Day 1972
Blast From the Past with actor Julian Mayfield
Blast from the Past with Chico Neblett
Blast From the Past with Cleve Sellers
Blast from the Past with FCC Commissioner Benjamin Hooks
Blast From the Past with Jesse Jackson
Blast from the Past with musician Jerry Iceman Butler
Blast From the Past with poet and playwright Amiri Baraka
Blast from the Past with Raymond St. Jacques
Blast from the Past with Rhody McCoy
Blast from the Past with vocalist Miriam Makeba
blues and folk singer Elizabeth Cotten
Bobby Seale interview
Boston Art Ensemble perform in the Say Brother Studio
Boston based artists discuss the meaning of Black art
Boston teenagers discuss the Darryl Williams shooting
Brenda Verner comments on women's rights movement
Brown Sugar in concert
Buddy Guy and Junior Wells
Cannonball Adderley and the Cannonball Express
Caroline Hunter comments on the struggle for African liberation
Cast members discuss the The Wiz, based on L. Frank Baum's Wizard of Oz
Cecil Taylor interview
Chuck Turner interview
The classical heritage of African American musicians
Clif Saunders discusses self-determination in the Native American community
Cooper Community Center
Copps Hill Burial Ground
Creation of the Mashpee District in 1685
Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions perform "We're A Winner"
David O. Ives discusses the origin of Say Brother on WGBH Television
David Sakura recalls life in Japanese detention camps in the United States during World War II
Dealin' with poet and Pan African supporter Haki Madhubuti
The death of Steve Biko
The debate about bilingual education in America
Demonstration of martial arts swordplay
Development of education systems in the Caribbean
Dick Lane remembers Dinah Washington
Dinizulu Kamau and Abdullah Khalil Sabree comment on the Hakim Jamal murder case
Dinizulu Kamau discusses violence against inmates in the Departmental Segregation Unit (DSU), 10 Block
Discrimination and racism in the construction community
Diversifying the job base in the Chinese American community
Divisiveness within the Black community
Documenting African American history
Dr. Emillio Carillo comments on healthcare in the Latino community
The Earth is a Perfect Mother by Ron Skenandore
Eartha Kitt talks about her early childhood
Ed Redd and Raymond Jordan debate why most African Americans are Democrats
E.L. Jones performs Othello
Elma Lewis reads the poem "Sympathy" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
End to experimental school project in Boston
Eritrean People's Liberation Front
Ethnic history of Puerto Rico
Eva Jessye: Black American Folk Music
Everett Goodwin reads from his poem To A Down and Out Brother
Falling standards in Boston Public Schools
Feelings of exclusion from the political process in the African American Community
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is not Enuf
Franz Minuty discusses voodooism
From Puerto Rico's Point of View
Gregory Spence comments on new testing criteria for students
Guinea Bissau Conflict
Henry F. Owens, III, comments on the death of Levi Hart
Henry Johnson comments on significance of the 1972 African Liberation Day March
Highland Park Free School
Hilda Harris performs Bizet's The Segadilla
Historical justifications for the institution of slavery
History of Black Capitalism in the United States
History of Chinese Americans in Massachusetts
Howard Hughes of the Dimock Community Health Center
Howlin' Wolf in concert
Indian Child Welfare Act
Is Photography a valid art form
Jean McGuire on the need for a greater supply of African American teachers
Jerry Cummings interview
Jim Cooper reads Why Apes Look Like People
Jim Yee comments on commercial development of Park Plaza and Lafayette Place
Joe Manong discusses his flight from South Africa
John Bryant criticizes the Boston School Committee
Joseph Monserrat interview
Joseph Nelson reminsices about Josephine Baker
June Cross Special Report on desegregation
Lack of equal opportunities for African American women in the workplace
Lack of minority representation in the jury system
Lack of services available to women prisoners
Larry Johnson and Jack Jackson perform "John Henry"
Local reaction to the New Bedford protests
Local residents comment on political candidates
Local residents comment on the cost of living
Lyle Lane discusses mutual exchange program between United States and Cuba
Marcia Ann Gillespie on affirmative action for women in the workplace
Mario Valdes discusses Black divinities
Martin Luther King Jr.'s March on Washington
Mashpee Indian lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Maya Angelou reads her poem "Phenomenal Women"
The meaning of Kwanzaa
Melnea Cass Interview
Melvin Van Peebles interview
Mississippi Fred MacDowell
Momodou Ceesay talks about the function of an artist
Muhammad Ali and the Vietnam War
Muhammad Ali press conference at the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts
Negro Masonry in the United States
Nia Anderson performs in The Commitment
Normalization of relations with Communist China
Orchestra Pabon in concert
Owusu Sadaukai urges boycott of goods from African Countries
Panel discussion of Black Power on University Campuses
Panel discussion on violence against women
Philip Hart discusses the history of the New School for Children and Roxbury Community College
Pianist Randy Weston performs "The Healers"
Poet Larry Roland performs live in the Say Brother studio
poet Nikki Giovanni
Portrayal of women in African art
Press Conference
Racial mix of welfare recipients in the United States
Racial stereotyping in 19th Century trade cards
Racism in the feminist community
Racism in the United States Army during the Vietnam War
Ralph H. Metcalfe on the Panama Canal
Randall Robinson Comments on Ways to Oppose Apartheid
Regents of the University of California v. Bakke case
Relationship between African Americans and the two party system
Remembering the Savoy Cafe
Retirement facilities for elderly African Americans
Ricardo Austrich on cutting all ties between Cuba and the United States
Rise of Minority Affairs reporting in the United States
Robert Lenzner uncovers the Polaroid scandal in South Africa
The Role of Black Journalists
Role of Independent African Countries in the United Nations
Role of students in the creation African American Studies Programs
Ron Karenga and the origin of Kwanzaa
Ronald Ingram Gospel chorus
Ronnie Laws talks about his early musical influences
Rudy Pierce interview
Saim Kinte recalls his first meeting with Alex Haley
Sanola
Say Brother commentary on the current penal system
Scenes from the 1980 St .Croix carnival
Sheryl B. Graves interview
Sixto Escobar talks about the cultural importance of folk music
Solar Visions performing live in Say Brother studio
Sonia Sanchez on the teachings of the Nation of Islam
South West Corridor Land Development Project
Street Dancers Bash rehearsing the song "Runnin"
Sunfire perform "Soka Jame" in the Say Brother studio
Superfly
Teachings of the Honorable Elijah Muhammad
Teenagers discuss youth marriage in the Say Brother studio
Themba Vilakazi discusses the apartheid regime in South Africa
Tom Satch Sanders
Tom Satch Sanders teaches basketball to African American children
Unspoken segregation in Boston public schools
Vignette on the struggle to find employment
Voting irregularities in black polling places
Walpole: An Examination of Why
Walter Leonard talks about the purpose of Affirmative Action programs
Western Nations failure to censure South Africa