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Series: The Ten O'Clock News
Date: 1991-04-03
Duration: 00:02:57
Subject: African American civil rights; Race relations; African American religious leaders; Jews
People: Karp, Eric; King, Martin Luther, Jr.; Stith, Charles; Vaillancourt, Meg; Zakim, Leonard;
Geography: Roxbury (Boston, Mass.)|
Clip Description
Meg Vaillancourt reports on the annual Black/Jewish Seder Supper at the Union United Methodist Church. Vaillancourt interviews Leonard Zakim (Anti-Defamation League), Charles Stith (Union United Methodist Church) and Eric Karp (Temple Ohabei Shalom) about the importance of the Black/Jewish Seder supper. Zakim says that the supper celebrates the continuing struggle for freedom and civil rights on the part of both communities. Stith talks about the kinship between the two communities. Karp says that both communities have struggled against oppression. Vaillancourt interviews attendees about the significance of the supper. Vaillancourt notes that this year's Seder supper falls on the eve of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (American civil rights leader). Vaillancourt's report is accompanied by footage of the supper.
This edition of the Ten O'Clock News also included the following item:
James Williams protests lack of minority faculty at MIT
James Williams fasts for diversity at MIT
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.
