Say Brother; Poetry and Arts; 110; Interview with poet Nikki Giovanni
- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Poetry and Arts
- Episode Number
- 110
- Producing Organization
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- AAPB ID
- cpb-aacip-08193110493
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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 Poet Nikki Giovanni discusses her early career and the responsibility of artists to make their work known. Overall the program focuses on poetry not only as an art form, but as a vehicle for engendering social change and new attitudes towards the arts. Composed of a number of segments, Poetry and Arts includes a reading of a Paul Lawrence Dunbar poem by Elma Lewis (Director of the National Center of Afro-American Artists) to a group of young children, an excerpt from an interview with poet Nikki Giovanni, a tutorial on getting published, an editorial on the "state of the arts" by House Representative Louis Stokes (Ohio), and a listing of new volumes of poetry of interest to the African American community. Produced by Marita Rivero. Directed by Conrad White.
- Date
- 1975-12-12
- Asset type
- Clip
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Subjects
- African American poets; African American women; Poetry; Poetry--Women authors; Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; Giovanni, Yolande Cornelia ("Nikki"); Lewis, Elma; Stokes, Louis; Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts (Roxbury, Mass.); National Center of Afro-American Artists (Roxbury, Mass.)
- 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-010c939c82f (unknown)
Format: video/mp4
Generation: Proxy
Duration: 00:01:00:00
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- Citations
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Poetry and Arts; 110; Interview with poet Nikki Giovanni,” 1975-12-12, 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-08193110493.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Poetry and Arts; 110; Interview with poet Nikki Giovanni.” 1975-12-12. 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-08193110493>.
- APA: Say Brother; Poetry and Arts; 110; Interview with poet Nikki Giovanni. 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-08193110493