Series: Say Brother
Program: Experimental TV
Episode: 429
Date: 1975-06-19
Subject: African Americans in television broadcasting; African American dance; African Americans in radio broadcasting; Mime; Housing development - Massachusetts

Clip Description
"Blast from the Past" with FCC Commissioner Benjamin Hooks Program is divided into two halves: the first consisting of five dance segments aired in previous programs, the second of newsmagazine-style segments. Dance performances are by the Dance Company of the National Center of Afro-American Artists (performing the piece "Doogla"), the Dance Theatre of Boston (performing "Black Light"), and Halim Adbur Rashid (Fred Johnson, performing a mime/modern dance piece). Additional segments include "Information" (on preparing for unemployment), "Community Access" (on the work of the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency and its role as a financier of mixed income developments), "Blast from the Past" (with an excerpt from a 1972 interview with FCC Commissioner Benjamin Hooks on the need for increasing the numbers of African Americans in the television and radio professions), the "Community Calendar," and "Commentary" by Producer Marita Rivero (consisting of film footage of an African American couple on a date). Produced by Marita Rivero. Directed by Conrad White.

Program Description
"Blast from the Past" with FCC Commissioner Benjamin Hooks Program is divided into two halves: the first consisting of five dance segments aired in previous programs, the second of newsmagazine-style segments. Dance performances are by the Dance Company of the National Center of Afro-American Artists (performing the piece "Doogla"), the Dance Theatre of Boston (performing "Black Light"), and Halim Adbur Rashid (Fred Johnson, performing a mime/modern dance piece). Additional segments include "Information" (on preparing for unemployment), "Community Access" (on the work of the Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency and its role as a financier of mixed income developments), "Blast from the Past" (with an excerpt from a 1972 interview with FCC Commissioner Benjamin Hooks on the need for increasing the numbers of African Americans in the television and radio professions), the "Community Calendar," and "Commentary" by Producer Marita Rivero (consisting of film footage of an African American couple on a date). Produced by Marita Rivero. 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_0429