Description |
1 online resource (59 min.) |
Series |
Say Brother News ; Episode 2 |
Summary |
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 report 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 |
Notes |
Title from resource description page (viewed March 02, 2016) |
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In English |
Subject |
African American college students -- Political activity -- Massachusetts -- Boston
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Capital punishment -- United States
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Press conferences -- United States
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African American college students -- Political activity.
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Capital punishment.
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Press conferences.
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Massachusetts -- Boston.
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United States.
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Genre/Form |
Television news programs.
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Television news programs.
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Press conferences.
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Téléjournaux.
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Form |
Streaming video
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Author |
Barrow-Murray, Barbara, producer
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Rivero, Marita Muhammad, producer
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White, Conrad, director
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WGBH Video (Firm), production company.
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