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Say Brother; Looking at Ourselves: How the Black Media Watches Boston [Part 2 of 2]; The Role of Black Journalists
Part of Say Brother.
02/18/1977
In this clip Ron Hutson, Mel Miller, Barbara Barrow and Sarah Ann Shaw debate the role of black journalists as reporters, not activists. Overall the program is the second of two focusing on Black media and its function in the community. Host Barbara Barrow speaks with Ron Hutson (head of the Urban 'Team' at the Boston Globe), Mel Miller (publisher of the Bay State Banner), and Sarah-Ann Shaw (reporter for WBZ News and host of the television program Mzizi Roots) about how people get their news, differences between reading newspapers and watching the news on television, and what the media should be doing to serve an educational purpose. Additional segments include the "Say Brother News" with reporters Leah Fletcher, Eric Sampedro, Justina Chu, and WNAC TV arts critic Tanya Hart, "man on the street" interviews with Boston residents regarding the function of the media, and the "Third World Connection" (in which the blending of Spanish, Caucasian, and African ethnicities in Brazil and the West Indies is discussed). Produced by Barbara Barrow. Directed by Conrad White.
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Looking at Ourselves: How the Black Media Watches Boston [Part 2 of 2]
- Program Number
717
- Title
The Role of Black Journalists
- 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
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Miller, Mel
- Reporters and reporting--Massachusetts
- Boston Globe
- Hutson, Ron
- African Americans in television broadcasting
- African American journalists
- African Americans in mass media
- African Americans in the newspaper industry
- Bay State Banner
- Shaw, Sarah-Ann
- Harris, Hilda
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Cross, June (Associate Producer)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Producer)
- White, Conrad (Director)
- Moore, Melvin (Associate Producer)
- Contributors
- Cross, June (Production Assistant)
- Valdes, Mario (Researcher)
- Morton, Wil (Audio)
- Johnson, Nat (Audio)
- Johnson, Lenita (Intern)
- Fletcher, Leah (Reporter)
- Handyside, Keith (Video)
- DeVitt, Doug (Videotape Assembly)
- Smith, Lee (Lighting)
- Demers, Leo (Videotape Assembly)
- Songai, Jahid (Intern)
- Mackles, Gene (Graphic Designer)
- Bordett, Bruce (Stage Manager)
- Koppel, Tiit (Assistant Stage Manager)
- Clarke, Brian (Assistant To The Producer)
- Holden, Dick (Camera)
- Mahard, Fran (Scenic Design)
- Chu, Justina (Reporter)
- Wareham, Skip (Camera)
- MacDonald, Greg (Camera)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Host)
- Hart, Tanya (Reporter)
- Balhatchet, Tom (Audio Engineer)
- Sullivan, John L. (Lighting)
- Horne, Danny (Intern)
- Hill, Rebecca (Fashion Consultant)
- Buccheri, Ron (Switcher)
- Floyd, Mike (Stage Manager)
- Sampedro, Eric (Reporter)
- Yang, Eileen (Researcher)
- MacKnight, John (Videotape Recordist)
- Smith, Kathy (Switcher)
- Fairweather, Bill (Video)
- Marshall, Carolyn (Production Secretary)
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Looking at Ourselves: How the Black Media Watches Boston [Part 2 of 2]; The Role of Black Journalists,” 02/18/1977, GBH Archives, accessed December 21, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_23432C5AFCAD4091B0FD5F0D07562A13.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Looking at Ourselves: How the Black Media Watches Boston [Part 2 of 2]; The Role of Black Journalists.” 02/18/1977. GBH Archives. Web. December 21, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_23432C5AFCAD4091B0FD5F0D07562A13>.
- APA: Say Brother; Looking at Ourselves: How the Black Media Watches Boston [Part 2 of 2]; The Role of Black Journalists. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_23432C5AFCAD4091B0FD5F0D07562A13