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Say Brother; Television Violence and Its Effect on Children
Part of Say Brother.
03/10/1977
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Television Violence and Its Effect on Children
- Program Number
729
- 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 explores the effect of television violence on children via a joint discussion between host Melvin Moore (a psychologist) and two professors currently collaborating on a project to study the ability of children to evaluate television program content: Dr. Aimee D. Leifer (Associate Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education) and Dr. Sheryl B. Graves (Professor of Psychology at New York University). Topics include why we still see a great deal of violence on television, in what ways television violence is different from "real-life" violence, what can kids learn from watching violent programs, if violence watched translates to "real life," if there are racial differences that children learn on television, if there are differences between what boys and girls learn, and if we should try to program television in any particular way.
- Duration
00:30:00
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Dorr, Aimee
- Violence in television
- Violence in television
- African American women
- Dorr, Aimee
- African American children
- Graves, Sheryl B.
- African American psychologists
- African American women
- African American children
- African American psychologists
- Graves, Sheryl B.
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Barbara Barrow (Producer)
- Moore, Melvin (Associate Producer)
- White, Conrad (Director)
- Contributors
- Horne, Danny (Intern)
- Mackles, Gene (Graphic Designer)
- Johnson, Lenita (Intern)
- Cross, June (Production Assistant)
- Smith, Lee (Lighting Assistant)
- Lane, Frank (Camera)
- Wilson, Bob (Camera)
- Mahard, Fran (Scenic Design)
- Sullivan, John L. (Assistant Stage Manager)
- Bordett, Bruce (Stage Manager)
- Smith, Kathy (Switcher)
- Kane, Pat (Videotape Recordist)
- Merhar, Milan (Videotape Recordist)
- Yang, Eileen (Researcher)
- Marshall, Carolyn (Production Secretary)
- Stewart, Aubrey (Video)
- Clarke, Brian (Assistant To The Producer)
- Plausse, John (Lighting Director)
- Valdes, Mario (Researcher)
- Songai, Jahid (Intern)
- Moore, Melvin (Host)
- Morton, Wil (Audio)
- Hill, Rebecca (Fashion Consultant)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Television Violence and Its Effect on Children,” 03/10/1977, GBH Archives, accessed April 23, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_1A37638E29B34102BC6630974FFD1686.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Television Violence and Its Effect on Children.” 03/10/1977. GBH Archives. Web. April 23, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_1A37638E29B34102BC6630974FFD1686>.
- APA: Say Brother; Television Violence and Its Effect on Children. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_1A37638E29B34102BC6630974FFD1686