Say Brother; Mystic Chain; 405; Blast From the Past with poet and playwright Amiri Baraka
- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Mystic Chain
- Episode Number
- 405
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-010f8caa784
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- Description
- 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
- Description
- In this clip "Blast From the Past" features an excerpt from a 1968 Say Brother interview with poet and playwright Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) at Tufts University. Baraka talks about the importance of African Americans trying to be Black as a means to raise themselves above the "filth of easy accommodation in the white world." Overall the program is composed of a variety of segments in magazine-style format. Segments include a mime performance by Halim Adbur Rashid (Fred Johnson), a poetry reading by Leah Fletcher (Langston Hughes' "American Heartbreak," "Impasse," and "A Dream Deferred," and Maya Angelou's "No Loser, No Weeper," "Letter to an Aspiring Junkie," and "They Went Home"), "Blast From the Past" with excerpts from 1968 Say Brother interviews with poet and playwright Amiri Baraka at Tufts University and comedian Bill Cosby, a musical performance by the four-person vocalist group Mystic Chain, "Information" on selecting a day care center, the "Community Calendar," and "Commentary" by Producer Marita Rivero on the difficulties musicians face. Directed by Conrad White.
- Date
- 1974-11-07
- Asset type
- Clip
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Subjects
- African American authors; African American poets; Baraka, Imamu Amiri, 1934-; Cosby, Bill, 1937-; Johnson, Fred (Halim Adbur Rashid); Shaw, Sarah-Ann; Mystic Chain (Musical group); Civil rights; Segregation
- Media type
- Moving Image
- Duration
- 00:01:00:00
- Credits
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Producing Organization: WGBH Educational Foundation
- AAPB Contributor Holdings
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WGBH Educational Foundation
Identifier: cpb-aacip-75a6d7e86a4 (unknown)
Format: video/mp4
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 00:01:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Mystic Chain; 405; Blast From the Past with poet and playwright Amiri Baraka,” 1974-11-07, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 26, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-010f8caa784.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Mystic Chain; 405; Blast From the Past with poet and playwright Amiri Baraka.” 1974-11-07. American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 26, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-010f8caa784>.
- APA: Say Brother; Mystic Chain; 405; Blast From the Past with poet and playwright Amiri Baraka. Boston, MA: American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-010f8caa784