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Say Brother; NAACP
Part of Say Brother.
03/27/1975
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- NAACP
- Program Number
419
- 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 examines the role of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the lives of African Americans. Host Leah Fletcher interviews Vernon Sport (President of the New England Regional Conference of the NAACP), Tom Atkins (President of the Boston Branch of the NAACP), and Reverend Charles Smith (National Board Member for the NAACP) and asks how the NAACP works towards equality in America, how the NAACP has proven itself, what the role is of the court system in the NAACP's work, how the NAACP decides which issues it will pursue, how citizen or test cases are selected, in what areas the NAACP has been most effective, and why desegregation in Boston is an important issue. Additional segments include "Blast from the Past" (with an excerpt from a 1972 Say Brother interview with Federal Communications Commission Commissioner (FCC) Benjamin Hooks conducted by Lee Daniels), "Access" (on the services provided by the Aswalos House), "Information" (on Project Safe), the "Community Calendar," and "Commentary" by Producer Marita Rivero.
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- African Americans in television broadcasting
- Smith, Reverend Charles
- African Americans--Civil rights
- Civil rights
- Sport, Vernon
- Atkins, Thomas
- Aswalos House (Boston, Mass.)
- African Americans in radio broadcasting
- Human services--United States
- Hooks, Benjamin L. (Benjamin Lawson), 1925-
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Segregation
- Project Safe (Boston, Mass.)
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- White, Conrad (Director)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Associate Producer)
- Rivero, Marita (Producer)
- Marita Rivero (Producer)
- Contributors
- Buccheri, Ron (Studio Technician)
- Simons, Fred (Videotape Engineer)
- Wareham, Skip (Studio Technician)
- Henry, Arthur (Videotape Engineer)
- Floyd, Michael (Studio Technician)
- Correia, Dennis (Engineer)
- Bordett, Bruce (Studio Technician)
- LeCain, Larry (Studio Technician)
- Smith, Kathy (Studio Technician)
- MacKnight, John (Videotape Engineer)
- MacDonald, Greg (Studio Technician)
- Koppel, Tiit (Studio Technician)
- Fletcher, Leah (Host)
- Hutton, David (Videotape Engineer)
- Spooner, Dighton (Researcher)
- Fairweather, Bill (Engineer)
- Chigas, Basil (Studio Technician)
- Johnson, Henry (Filmmaker)
- Balhatchet, Tom (Engineer)
- Kane, Pat (Videotape Engineer)
- Handyside, Keith (Engineer)
- Plausse, John (Studio Technician)
- Charette, Bill (Studio Technician)
- Cross, June (Community Coordinator)
- Spangler, Jennifer (Engineer)
- Crane, David (Videotape Engineer)
- Jones, Vickie (Production Assistant)
- Cogell, Lloyd (Still Photography)
- St. Onge, David (Videotape Engineer)
- Farrier, Stephen (Community Coordinator)
- Smith, Lee (Studio Technician)
- Boston Art Ensemble (Theme Music)
- Holden, Dick (Studio Technician)
- Wilson, Bob (Studio Technician)
- Sullivan, John L. (Studio Technician)
- Lane, Frank (Studio Technician)
- Citation
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