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Say Brother; Black Arts
Part of Say Brother.
06/13/1969
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Black Arts
- Program Number
34
- 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
Host Jim Spruill leads a discussion among 17 Boston-based artists on what Black art is and to whom the Black artist speaks. Group assembled includes Orma Jo Flint, Steve Hussein, Hakim Jami, Bob Nellums, Joanne Robinson, Robert Ruff, Joanne Sanders, Ralf Coleman, Ali Yusef, Carolyn Fitchert, Charles Holley, Gary Rickson, Dana Chandler, Jr., Lovett Thompson, John Wilson, and Elma Lewis. Program includes stills of the work of featured painters and sculptors woven into the discussion, with featured performances by the musicians, dancers and poets.
- Duration
00:58:47
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Ruff, Robert
- Hussein, Steve
- Fitchert, Carolyn
- Ali Yusef Trio
- Saunders, Andrea
- Women in the performing arts
- Yusef, Ali
- Civil rights
- African American artists--Massachusetts--Boston
- Holley, Charles
- Coleman, Ralf
- Wilson, John
- Robinson, Joanne
- Nellums, Bob
- African American arts
- Negro Repertory Theatre
- Artists--Social conditions
- Chandler, Dana, Jr.
- Jami, Hakim
- Flint, Orma Jo
- Thompson, Lovett
- African American poets
- Music--Performance
- Segregation
- African American musicians
- African American women
- Artists and community--Massachusetts--Boston
- Rickson, Gary
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Ferguson, Andrew (Associate Producer)
- Lathan, Stan (Director)
- Bright, Hazel V. (Associate Producer)
- Lark, Tony (Associate Producer)
- Ray Richardson (Producer)
- Contributors
- Cabot, Ellen (Production Assistant)
- Ferguson, Andrew (Audio)
- Gomez, Jewelle (Production Assistant)
- Spruill, Jim (Host)
- Loerzel, David (Audio)
- Norton, Chas (Lighting Director)
- Rogers, Steve (Video)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Black Arts,” 06/13/1969, GBH Archives, accessed April 18, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_EE5C768EE97D4B23A86A9CF16CF8C7C7.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Black Arts.” 06/13/1969. GBH Archives. Web. April 18, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_EE5C768EE97D4B23A86A9CF16CF8C7C7>.
- APA: Say Brother; Black Arts. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_EE5C768EE97D4B23A86A9CF16CF8C7C7