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Series: The Ten O'Clock News
Date: 1988-08-23
Duration: 00:02:47
Subject: African American women; Housing; African American neighborhoods; Violence
People: Lewis, Elma; Moore, Darlene Tiffany; Vaillancourt, Meg;
Geography: Roxbury (Boston, Mass.)|
Clip Description
Meg Vaillancourt interviews Elma Lewis (Roxbury community leader) about the Roxbury neighborhood. Lewis says that Roxbury is portrayed as "unworthy" by the news media. Lewis criticizes media coverage, housing policy, and police performance in Roxbury. Lewis talks about the need for a community to set its own standards, saying that she complains about certain types of behavior on her block. Lewis says that she will not be driven from her home by the problems in the neighborhood. She talks about her obligation to work for improvements in the community. Vaillancourt's report is accompanied by footage of residents and police in the Roxbury area and a shot of a photograph of Darlene Tiffany Moore (Roxbury resident).
This edition of the Ten O'Clock News also included the following items:
Teachers and parents are frustrated over new starting times for the Boston Public Schools for the coming school year
Boston parents frustrated with Wilson and School Committee
Charles Laquidara organizes a boycott against Shell Oil Company
Charles Laquidara boycotts Shell Oil
Series Description
A local program aimed at the Boston audience, The Ten O'Clock News debuted on January 15, 1976. Its two immediate predecessors were The Reporters and Evening Compass. A news and public affairs show focusing on neighborhood, local and state issues, The Reporters was produced and broadcast on WGBH from 1970 to 1973. The Reporters was then replaced by Evening Compass, which expanded into a twice-nightly news broadcast during the tense moments of Boston's busing crisis. On the air from 1973 to 1975, Evening Compass found an audience through its in-depth coverage of school desegregation in Boston, which began in 1974. The Ten O'Clock News stood out as an in-depth news program. It strove for a balance between local and national stories, between politics and the Arts. The last The Ten O'Clock News program was broadcast on May 30, 1991.
