GBH Openvault
Say Brother; Minority Cultural Institutions: Programmed to Fail?
Part of Say Brother.
01/21/1977
License Clip
This program cannot be made available on Open Vault.
More material may be available from this program at the GBH Archives. If you would like research access to the collection at GBH, please email archive_requests@wgbh.org.
- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Minority Cultural Institutions: Programmed to Fail?
- Program Number
714
- 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 focuses on minority cultural institutions and whether they are destined to fail in the United States. Host Barbara Barrow speaks with Elma Lewis, Director of the National Center of Afro-American Artists about the limited existence of minority cultural institutions, what institutions serve Blacks in America, if the National Center is a stable institution, the role of donations and individual giving in the economic viability of an institution, and the difficulty in getting grants (due to the fact, as Lewis states, grant monies are distributed to perpetuate a culture rather than develop marginalized populations). Additional segments include the "Say Brother News" with reporters Leah Fletcher, Eric Sampedro, Justina Chu, and WNAC TV arts critic Tanya Hart, the "Third World Connection" (in which the mixture of African, Chinese, and Eastern Europe people is discussed), and the "Community Calendar."
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- African American women
- Art schools--Massachusetts--Roxbury
- African Americans in television broadcasting
- Education Standards
- School management and organization
- Television broadcasting of news
- Europe--Civilization--African influences
- African Americans in the performing arts
- National Center of Afro-American Artists (Roxbury, Mass.)
- Lewis, Elma
- Segregation
- Civil rights
- Asia--Civilization--African influences
- Education--Standards
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- White, Conrad (Director)
- Barbara Barrow (Producer)
- Moore, Melvin (Associate Producer)
- Contributors
- Marshall, Carolyn (Production Secretary)
- Kane, Pat (Videotape Assembly)
- Floyd, Mike (Stage Manager)
- Handyside, Keith (Video)
- Johnson, Lenita (Intern)
- Cross, June (Production Assistant)
- Clarke, Brian (Assistant To The Producer)
- Sullivan, John (Lighting)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Host)
- Sampedro, Eric (Reporter)
- Buccheri, Ron (Switcher)
- Norton, Chas (Lighting)
- Coleman, Vern (Audio)
- Merhar, Milan (Videotape Assembly)
- Koppel, Tiit (Assistant Stage Manager)
- Smith, Kathy (Switcher)
- Horne, Danny (Intern)
- Mahard, Fran (Scenic Design)
- Lane, Frank (Camera)
- Johnson, Nat (Audio)
- Hudson, Harvey (Audio Editor)
- MacDonald, Greg (Camera)
- Chu, Justina (Reporter)
- Mackles, Gene (Graphic Designer)
- Hill, Rebecca (Fashion Consultant)
- Demers, Leo (Videotape Recordist)
- Holden, Dick (Camera)
- Hart, Tanya (Reporter)
- Valdes, Mario (Researcher)
- Songai, Jahid (Intern)
- Burdett, Bruce (Stage Manager)
- Fletcher, Leah (Reporter)
- Yang, Eileen (Researcher)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Minority Cultural Institutions: Programmed to Fail?,” 01/21/1977, GBH Archives, accessed April 25, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_C03552884D81448A8AB5E4F7DAC3EA3E.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Minority Cultural Institutions: Programmed to Fail?.” 01/21/1977. GBH Archives. Web. April 25, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_C03552884D81448A8AB5E4F7DAC3EA3E>.
- APA: Say Brother; Minority Cultural Institutions: Programmed to Fail?. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_C03552884D81448A8AB5E4F7DAC3EA3E