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Say Brother; Senior Citizens
Part of Say Brother.
04/17/1974
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Senior Citizens
- Program Number
323
- 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 focuses on the contributions made by, and services for, the elderly of Boston. Host Topper Carew interviews three prominent African American senior citizens: Melnea Cass (lifelong Boston community advocate and volunteer), Lometor Boston (volunteer), and Ralph J. Banks, and talks with them about programs available to seniors, their advice for young people, the cutting of federal programs, and their hopes for the elderly community. Program also contains a poetry reading by Bishop Curtain and a musical performance by Rowena Williams.
- Duration
00:60:00
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Older African Americans
- Boston, Lometor
- Older people--Services for
- Moore, Charles
- African American women
- Civil rights
- Older people--Services for--Massachusetts
- Segregation
- African American poets
- Music--Performance
- Older people--Attitudes
- Curtin, Bishop St. Clair
- Oral interpretation of poetry
- Poetry
- Cass, Melnea A. (Melnea Agnes), 1896-1978
- African American musicians
- African American singers
- Banks, Ralph J.
- Williams, Rowena
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Topper Carew (Producer)
- Contributors
- Carew, Topper (Host)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Senior Citizens,” 04/17/1974, GBH Archives, accessed December 22, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_090D4CF4668445C0911338C76C6F27BC.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Senior Citizens.” 04/17/1974. GBH Archives. Web. December 22, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_090D4CF4668445C0911338C76C6F27BC>.
- APA: Say Brother; Senior Citizens. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_090D4CF4668445C0911338C76C6F27BC