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Say Brother; Say Brother News #2
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05/02/1975
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Say Brother News #2
- Program Number
423
- 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, in a news-broadcast format, reviews the events of April, 1975 with anchors James Rowe and Carmen Fields, news reporter "at large" Leah Fletcher, in-studio interviewer Russell Tillman, arts reviewer Tanya Hart, special reporter June Cross, and commentator Dighton Spooner. Program features a special reports on State Senator Bill Owens's press conference in April (in which he discussed capital punishment legislation pending in the Senate), the "American Woman" festival held at Jordan Marsh department store in Boston, decisions made by Housing Court Judge Paul Garrity (on renovating the housing projects under the Boston Housing Authority), Julian Bond's recent traveling of the political circuit in Massachusetts to "drum up" support for a presidential campaign, the Alliance for Economic Justice's meeting to protest the governor's cutback in welfare benefits, an interview with Winston Kendall of the Roxbury Defenders (about the upcoming conference organized by the National Conference on Black Lawyers called "Resist to Exist"), the picketing of the president's office at Boston University by students (over the current dean and his poor management of the Black Talent Program), the United States Bicentennial events on Patriots' Day at John Elliot Square, and an interview with jazz musician Ronnie Gill.
- Duration
00:60:00
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- African American lawyers
- Jazz musicians
- Civil rights
- Gill, Ronnie
- Kendall, Winston
- African American politicians
- African Americans in television broadcasting--Massachusetts--Boston
- Roxbury Defenders
- Owens, Bill
- School management and organization
- Bond, Julian, 1940-
- American Woman Festival (1975 : Boston, Mass.)
- African American college students--Political activity
- Segregation
- Television broadcasting of news
- African American musicians
- Press conferences
- Burke, Yvonne
- Capital punishment
- National Conference on Black Lawyers (1975)
- Housing rehabilitation
- African Americans--Education
- Alliance for Economic Justice (Boston, Mass.)
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Marita Rivero (Producer)
- White, Conrad (Director)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Producer)
- Contributors
- Fletcher, Leah (Reporter)
- Tillman, Russell (Reporter)
- Jones, Vickie (Production Assistant)
- Hart, Tanya (Reporter)
- Cogell, Lloyd (Still Photography)
- Spooner, Dighton (Researcher)
- Rowe, James (Host)
- Farrier, Stephen (Community Coordinator)
- Lawson, Rick (Researcher)
- Shipley, Jack (Still Photography)
- Cross, June (Reporter)
- Fields, Carmen (Host)
- Loerzel, David (Cameraman)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Say Brother News #2,” 05/02/1975, GBH Archives, accessed April 16, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_5395451A57C04EFC97638C3D01A8B8F9.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Say Brother News #2.” 05/02/1975. GBH Archives. Web. April 16, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_5395451A57C04EFC97638C3D01A8B8F9>.
- APA: Say Brother; Say Brother News #2. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_5395451A57C04EFC97638C3D01A8B8F9