Series: Say Brother
Program: Black Woman
Episode: 259
Date: 1973-03-29
Subject: African American dance; African American women; African Americans in motion pictures; African American photographers; Oral interpretation of poetry; Photography of women

Clip Description
Program consists of numerous segments illustrating the views of African American women on life, love and marriage, as well as how African American men perceive Black women. The longest segments features a conversation with photographer Chester Higgins, Jr. about his new book of photographs, Black Woman, and a discussion led by Associate Producer Vickie Jones on traditional marriage versus polygamy. Additional segments include performances by a female vocalist, a modern dancer, and a poetry reading by Sarah Fabio, a brief "Information" segment on prominent African American women in Boston (Elma Lewis, Director of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Doris Bunte, Massachusetts State Representative, and Josephine Holley, founder of La Parisienne Beauty Salon), two short film segments (one of Malcolm X talking about women), and interviews with Rebecca Lewis and Imogene Roundtree, both elderly African American women from Boston, who talk about education and employment when they were in their twenties. Produced by John Slade. Directed by Russell Tillman.

Program Description
Program consists of numerous segments illustrating the views of African American women on life, love and marriage, as well as how African American men perceive Black women. The longest segments features a conversation with photographer Chester Higgins, Jr. about his new book of photographs, Black Woman, and a discussion led by Associate Producer Vickie Jones on traditional marriage versus polygamy. Additional segments include performances by a female vocalist, a modern dancer, and a poetry reading by Sarah Fabio, a brief "Information" segment on prominent African American women in Boston (Elma Lewis, Director of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Doris Bunte, Massachusetts State Representative, and Josephine Holley, founder of La Parisienne Beauty Salon), two short film segments (one of Malcolm X talking about women), and interviews with Rebecca Lewis and Imogene Roundtree, both elderly African American women from Boston, who talk about education and employment when they were in their twenties. Produced by John Slade. Directed by Russell Tillman.

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_0259.html