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Series: Say Brother
Program: Look into the Past, A
Episode: 302
Date: 1973-10-10
Subject: African Americans in television broadcasting; Television in community development; African American women; African American actors; African American psychologists; African American journalists
Clip Description
Mel King on Ray Richardson Producer Topper Carew presents a number of segments originally aired in 1972 and 1973, as well as introduces recent interviews with former Say Brother staff and supporters to celebrate the accomplishments of the program. Previously aired interviews are with local officials John O. Boone (State Corrections Commissioner), Leroy B. Chase (Deputy Superintendent for the Boston Police Department), and Robert J. DiGrazia (Boston's Police Commissioner), Harvard professors and authors Dr. Alvin Pouissant and Christopher Jencks, and Superfly actor Ron O'Neal. New interviews conducted by Topper Carew are with with Elma Lewis, Mel King, Sarah-Ann Shaw, and Jim Boyd. Program contains excerpts from previously aired music and dance performances. Produced by Topper Carew. Directed by Connie White.
Program Description
Mel King on Ray Richardson Producer Topper Carew presents a number of segments originally aired in 1972 and 1973, as well as introduces recent interviews with former Say Brother staff and supporters to celebrate the accomplishments of the program. Previously aired interviews are with local officials John O. Boone (State Corrections Commissioner), Leroy B. Chase (Deputy Superintendent for the Boston Police Department), and Robert J. DiGrazia (Boston's Police Commissioner), Harvard professors and authors Dr. Alvin Pouissant and Christopher Jencks, and Superfly actor Ron O'Neal. New interviews conducted by Topper Carew are with with Elma Lewis, Mel King, Sarah-Ann Shaw, and Jim Boyd. Program contains excerpts from previously aired music and dance performances. Produced by Topper Carew. Directed by Connie 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.
