Series: Say Brother
Program: Best of 1976 - 1977
Episode: 730
Date: 1977-07-01
Subject: African American musicians; African American women; Indigenous peoples; African American conductors (Music) - Boston - Massachusetts; African American orchestra musicians; Chinese Americans - Boston - Massachusetts; Drug abuse - Prevention and treatment; Human services - Boston - Massachusetts; Indians of North America - Land tenure

Clip Description
Program serves as a retrospective of programs from the 1976-1977 broadcast season, and includes excerpts from Program 714, "Minority Cultural Institutions: Programmed to Fail?" (featuring an interview with Elma Lewis of the National Center of Afro-American Artists), Program 710, "What is Concilio?" (featuring an interview with Nick Arana, Executive Director of the drug rehabilitation center Concilio Human Services), Program 713, "Federal Laws and the Native American: Patterns of Paper Politics" (featuring an interview with Russell Peters of the Mashpee Tribal Council), Program 707, "Say Brother Pays Tribute to Webster Lewis with a 'Night on the Town'" (featuring an excerpt from his concert at the New England Conservatory of Music's Jordan Hall), Program 708, "Dismissing Some Myths about Chinese Americans" (featuring an interview with May Ling Tong, Director of the Chinese American Civic Association), and Program 720, "Walter Leonard," (featuring an interview with Walter Leonard, Special Assistant to the President and Affirmative Action Officer at Harvard University). Produced by Barbara Barrow. Directed by David DeBarger and Conrad White.

Program Description
Program serves as a retrospective of programs from the 1976-1977 broadcast season, and includes excerpts from Program 714, "Minority Cultural Institutions: Programmed to Fail?" (featuring an interview with Elma Lewis of the National Center of Afro-American Artists), Program 710, "What is Concilio?" (featuring an interview with Nick Arana, Executive Director of the drug rehabilitation center Concilio Human Services), Program 713, "Federal Laws and the Native American: Patterns of Paper Politics" (featuring an interview with Russell Peters of the Mashpee Tribal Council), Program 707, "Say Brother Pays Tribute to Webster Lewis with a 'Night on the Town'" (featuring an excerpt from his concert at the New England Conservatory of Music's Jordan Hall), Program 708, "Dismissing Some Myths about Chinese Americans" (featuring an interview with May Ling Tong, Director of the Chinese American Civic Association), and Program 720, "Walter Leonard," (featuring an interview with Walter Leonard, Special Assistant to the President and Affirmative Action Officer at Harvard University). Produced by Barbara Barrow. Directed by David DeBarger and Conrad White.

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, Byron Rushing, Owusu Sadaukai, and Sonia Sanchez.

See also: http://main.wgbh.org/saybrother/programs/sb_0730.html