Series: Say Brother
Program: Community Organization
Episode: 307
Date: 1973-11-29
Subject: Human services - Boston - Massachusetts

Clip Description
Cooper Community Center Program focuses on the work of five community organizations in the Boston area: the Cooper Community Center (a social services agency located in Lower Roxbury that provides senior citizen, youth, and daycare programs); the Bromley Heath Security Patrol (a private program for the tenants of the Bromley Heath Projects that provides mandatory grounds and building security checks); the Roxbury Action Program (a community development corporation working on housing development, housing rehabilitation, commercial development, social services, and physical and social planning); the F.I.R.S.T. Incorporated Drug Rehabilitation and Prevention Center (which provides services for overcoming addiction); and the Columbia Point Educational Program (a youth educational-services program for residents of Columbia Point). Produced by Topper Carew. Directed by Conrad White.

Program Description
Cooper Community Center Program focuses on the work of five community organizations in the Boston area: the Cooper Community Center (a social services agency located in Lower Roxbury that provides senior citizen, youth, and daycare programs); the Bromley Heath Security Patrol (a private program for the tenants of the Bromley Heath Projects that provides mandatory grounds and building security checks); the Roxbury Action Program (a community development corporation working on housing development, housing rehabilitation, commercial development, social services, and physical and social planning); the F.I.R.S.T. Incorporated Drug Rehabilitation and Prevention Center (which provides services for overcoming addiction); and the Columbia Point Educational Program (a youth educational-services program for residents of Columbia Point). Produced by Topper Carew. Directed by 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_0307