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Say Brother; Current News
Part of Say Brother.
06/12/1975
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Current News
- Program Number
428
- 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
Co-anchors James Rowe and Carmen Fields read news stories of interest to the African American community in Boston (the Model Cities layoffs, Freedom House Institute of Education Director Ellen Swenson Jackson's appointment to the Multiethnic Citywide Coordinating Council, Patrick Moynihan's appointment to the United Nations, the circulation of a racist sergeant's exam by Boston policemen, the ten year extension to the 1965 Voting Rights Act, and recent acts of Massachusetts legislature). Supporting stories are provided by reporter Leah Fletcher (Roxbury Action Group's recent hosting of French officials touring the United States to see models of urban planning, in this case, the revitalization of the John Elliot Square area in Roxbury ); in-studio interviewer Russell Tillman (who speaks with Massachusetts State representative Doris Bunte about the proposed changes to welfare); cultural reporter Tanya Hart (who speaks with Dr. Alvin Pouissant, co-author of "Black Child Care," reviews the films "Cornbread Earl and Me" and "Space is the Place and introduces a previously filmed interview with actress Jackie "Moms" Mabley); reporter June Cross (on how Phase Two of Judge Garrity's desegregation plan will be implemented); and Tom Hardy (with a special economic analysis).
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- African American psychologists
- African American actresses
- African Americans in television broadcasting
- Multi-Ethnic Citywide Coordinating Council (Boston, Mass.)
- Pouissant, Dr. Alvin
- Civil rights
- Bunte, Doris
- African American politicians
- Jackson, Ellen Swepson
- Space Is the Place (Motion picture)
- African Americans--Education
- Cornbread Earl and Me (Motion picture)
- Busing for school integration--School management and organization
- Segregation
- METCO (Boston, Mass.)
- John Elliot Square (Roxbury, Mass.)
- Television broadcasting of news
- Mabley, Jackie
- Inner cities--Massachusetts--Boston
- Segregation
- Busing for school integration--Law and legislation
- National Center of Afro-American Artists (Roxbury, Mass.)
- Roxbury Action Program
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Jones, Vickie (Associate Producer)
- White, Conrad (Director)
- Marita Rivero (Producer)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Associate Producer)
- Contributors
- Spangler, Jennifer (Audio Engineer)
- Plausse, John (Studio Technician)
- Hart, Tanya (Reporter)
- Koppel, Tiit (Studio Technician)
- Spooner, Dighton (Researcher)
- Crane, David (VTR Recordist)
- Rowe, James (Host)
- Sullivan, John (Studio Technician)
- McGuire Nicholas, Sallie (Production Assistant)
- Fields, Carmen (Host)
- Fletcher, Leah (Reporter)
- Smith, Lee (Studio Technician)
- Chigas, Basil (Studio Technician)
- Smith, Kathy (Studio Technician)
- Charette, Bill (Studio Technician)
- Cross, June (Reporter)
- Tillman, Russell (Reporter)
- Lawson, Rick (Researcher)
- Farrier, Steve (Still Photography)
- Correia, Dennis (Videotape Engineer)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Current News,” 06/12/1975, GBH Archives, accessed April 19, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_88BFA7D8CDC34A7492B04B79370D6F22.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Current News.” 06/12/1975. GBH Archives. Web. April 19, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_88BFA7D8CDC34A7492B04B79370D6F22>.
- APA: Say Brother; Current News. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_88BFA7D8CDC34A7492B04B79370D6F22