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Say Brother; Profile of Latino Social Service Agencies, A; Angeles Rodriguez comments on funding problems in human services
Part of Say Brother.
10/27/1978
In this clip, Angeles Rodrigues, Executive Director for La Alianza Hispana (a hispanic human services agency in Boston), gives an example of funding problems using the failure of the Massachusetts Welfare Department to adjust monies, despite inflation. Overall, the program provides an in-depth look at the social services agencies serving Boston's Latino community. Host Sixto Escobar speaks on location with Raul Cotto (Chairman of the Council of Administrators of Hispanic Agencies), Angeles Rodrigues (Executive Director of La Alianza Hispana), staff members of Casa Myrna Vazquez (a shelter for battered women), Pablo Calderon (Director of Oficina Hispana de Jamaica Plain, an agency serving the Hispanic population in Jamaica Plain), Pable Cruz (Director of Club Hispano, a youth recreational center in Jamaica Plain), counselor Ethel Torrres and Director Felix Arroyo of Casa Del Sol (an agency offering educational services to the Hispanic population), Jorge Hernandez (Executive Director of Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion, a Hispanic tenant organization in Boston's South End), Rosanna Filiponi (Administrator of Centro Del Cardinal Cushing, Boston' oldest agency serving the Hispanic population because of its mission to serve Cubans leaving Cuba after the revolution), and Salvador Morales (staff member of Concilio Human Services, a drug rehabilitation agency) about the services they offer, their role in the community, and the problems they face in continuing to operate effectively. Produced by George Rivera.
License Clip
- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Profile of Latino Social Service Agencies, A
- Program Number
902
- Title
Angeles Rodriguez comments on funding problems in human services
- 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 provides an in-depth look at the social services agencies serving Boston's Latino community. Host Sixto Escobar speaks on location with Raul Cotto (Chairman of the Council of Administrators of Hispanic Agencies), Angeles Rodrigues (Executive Director of La Alianza Hispana), staff members of Casa Myrna Vazquez (a shelter for battered women), Pablo Calderon (Director of Oficina Hispana de Jamaica Plain, an agency serving the Hispanic population in Jamaica Plain), Pable Cruz (Director of Club Hispano, a youth recreational center in Jamaica Plain), counselor Ethel Torrres and Director Felix Arroyo of Casa Del Sol (an agency offering educational services to the Hispanic population), Jorge Hernandez (Executive Director of Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion, a Hispanic tenant organization in Boston's South End), Rosanna Filiponi (Administrator of Centro Del Cardinal Cushing, Boston' oldest agency serving the Hispanic population because of its mission to serve Cubans leaving Cuba after the revolution), and Salvador Morales (staff member of Concilio Human Services, a drug rehabilitation agency) about the services they offer, their role in the community, and the problems they face in continuing to operate effectively.
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Calderon, Pablo
- Cruz, Pable
- Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion
- Club Hispano
- Council of Administrators of Hispanic Agencies
- Officina Hispana de Jamaica Plain
- Filiponi, Rosanna
- Centro Del Cardinal Cushing
- Alianza Hispana, La
- Casa Myrna Vazquez
- Rodrigues, Angeles
- Medina, Lucy
- Hispanic Americans - Services for - Boston - Massachusetts
- Hill, Cardina
- Hernandez, Jorge
- Casa Del Sol
- Arroyo, Felix
- Cotto, Raul
- Morales, Salvador
- Torres, Ethel
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Rivera, George (Producer)
- Moore, Melvin (Associate Producer)
- Contributors
- DeVitt, Doug (Videotape Recordist)
- Demers, Leo (Videotape Assembly)
- Yang, Eileen (Production Assistant)
- MacDonald, Greg (Camera)
- Escobar, Sixto (Host)
- Lewis, Webster (Theme Music)
- Merhar, Milan (Videotape Assembly)
- St. Onge, David (Videotape Assembly)
- Pugliesi, Joe (Video)
- Harrison, Rich (Video)
- Clarke, Brian (Assistant Director)
- Hudson, Harvey (Audio)
- Carey, Nancy (Intern)
- Mackles, Gene (Graphic Designer)
- Handyside, Keith (Video)
- Johnson, Bill (Audio)
- Stewart, Aubrey (Video)
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Profile of Latino Social Service Agencies, A; Angeles Rodriguez comments on funding problems in human services,” 10/27/1978, GBH Archives, accessed April 19, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_2A272E87F8F64E9BBE76A1B4787425A1.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Profile of Latino Social Service Agencies, A; Angeles Rodriguez comments on funding problems in human services.” 10/27/1978. GBH Archives. Web. April 19, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_2A272E87F8F64E9BBE76A1B4787425A1>.
- APA: Say Brother; Profile of Latino Social Service Agencies, A; Angeles Rodriguez comments on funding problems in human services. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_2A272E87F8F64E9BBE76A1B4787425A1