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Say Brother; Say Brother Presents Message to the People featuring Brown Sugar; Brown Sugar in concert
Part of Say Brother.
05/08/1975
In this clip, the vocalist group Brown Sugar, backed by the instrumental group Message to the People, perform live for the studio audience. The program overall consists of two halves, the first a performance by the vocalist group Brown Sugar backed by the instrumental group Message to the People. The second offers a variety of segments focusing on political and social issues, including: the political career of Gary, Indiana, Mayor Richard Hatcher, the adoption of Black and interracial children by African American families (as facilitated by the Boston based organization Black Recruitment Committee for Adoption and Foster Care), a Say Brother editorial on abortion rights by professor and historian A.B. Spellman, "Access" (on tenant rights as per Boston law), and the "Community Calendar." Produced by Marita Rivero. Directed by Conrad White.
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Say Brother Presents Message to the People featuring Brown Sugar
- Program Number
424
- Title
Brown Sugar in concert
- 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, Babatunde Olatunji, Byron Rushing, Owusu Sadaukai, and Sonia Sanchez. Series release date: 7/15/1968
- Program Description
Program consists of two halves, the first a performance by the vocalist group Brown Sugar backed by the instrumental group Message to the People. The second offers a variety of segments focusing on political and social issues, including: the political career of Gary, Indiana, Mayor Richard Hatcher, the adoption of Black and interracial children by African American families (as facilitated by the Boston based organization Black Recruitment Committee for Adoption and Foster Care), a Say Brother editorial on abortion rights by professor and historian A.B. Spellman, "Access" (on tenant rights as per Boston law), and the "Community Calendar."
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Boston Art Ensemble
- African American singers
- Black Recruitment Committee for Adoption and Foster Care
- Spellman, A.B.
- Brown Sugar (Musical group)
- Message to the People (Musical group)
- National Center of Afro-American Artists (Roxbury, Mass.)
- Music--Performance
- African American musicians
- Hatcher, Richard
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- White, Conrad (Director)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Associate Producer)
- Rivero, Marita (Producer)
- Contributors
- Sullivan, John L. (Studio Technician)
- MacDonald, Greg (Studio Technician)
- Chigas, Basil (Studio Technician)
- Holden, Dick (Community Coordinator)
- Balhatchet, Tom (Engineer)
- Correia, Dennis (Engineer)
- Smith, Kathy (Studio Technician)
- Cross, June (Community Coordinator)
- Handyside, Keith (Engineer)
- St. Onge, David (Videotape Engineer)
- Buccheri, Ron (Studio Technician)
- Kane, Pat (Videotape Engineer)
- Johnson, Henry (Filmmaker)
- Hutton, David (Videotape Engineer)
- LeCain, Larry (Studio Technician)
- Floyd, Michael (Crane)
- Farrier, Steve (Community Coordinator)
- Lane, Frank (Studio Technician)
- Henry, Arthur (Videotape Engineer)
- Bordett, Bruce (Studio Technician)
- Smith, Lee (Studio Technician)
- Cogell, Lloyd (Still Photography)
- Wareham, Skip (Studio Technician)
- Simons, Fred (Videotape Engineer)
- Spangler, Jennifer (Engineer)
- MacKnight, John (Studio Technician)
- Charette, Bill (Studio Technician)
- Fairweather, Bill (Engineer)
- Koppel, Tiit (Studio Technician)
- Lawson, Rick (Community Coordinator)
- Crane, David (Videotape Engineer)
- Plausse, John (Studio Technician)
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Say Brother Presents Message to the People featuring Brown Sugar; Brown Sugar in concert,” 05/08/1975, GBH Archives, accessed December 21, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_04E25E1C38A647499375AD1BC0413668.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Say Brother Presents Message to the People featuring Brown Sugar; Brown Sugar in concert.” 05/08/1975. GBH Archives. Web. December 21, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_04E25E1C38A647499375AD1BC0413668>.
- APA: Say Brother; Say Brother Presents Message to the People featuring Brown Sugar; Brown Sugar in concert. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_04E25E1C38A647499375AD1BC0413668