Shows Airing From 1960s
Guests:
Bill Murphy, Earl Grant, George Kirby, Ray Jenkins
Host :
Tony Brown
Producer :
Tony Brown
Description: This show includes musical performances by Bill Murphy, Earl Grant, and Hal McKinny Quintet, features on the presidential election and politics, and an interview with George Kirby. Sandy Lawrence provides a snapshot of Detroit's upcoming events in the Grapevine feature. Abe Ulmer highlights news stories.
Guests:
Bill Murphy, Kim Weston, Hal McKinney, Gwen McKinney, George Kirby
Host :
Tony Brown, Sandy Lawrence, Abe Ulmer
Producer :
Tony Brown
Description: The program covers community events, local news, a segment on the role of the public school system in the 1967 Detroit Riot, and a segment on Harriet Tubman.
Guests:
Tony Brown
Description: One of the creative aspects of the show is the incorporation of "Public Service Announcements," that take a satirical look at Black identity. This "Free Your Mind" clip explores the complexity of integrating ones public and private identities. Essentially, at the heart of the message is the idea that Black Americans may feel that in order to succeed in the corporate America they must assimilate and either imitate or adapt Eurocentric characteristics. It is only in private, among family and friends, that the ethic identity can be fully embraced. The clip challenges viewers to question if the two selves can ever be fully reconciled and brought together. Thus achieving professional success while still being true to one's ethic identity.
Guests:
Tony Brown
Description: This segment examines public education in Detroit. Highlighting the unsafe infrastructures, lack of adequate resources, and substandard curriculum inner city youth grappled with everyday. The staff reporters interviews students at Northeastern High School to gain insight into their thoughts about the situation. The interview reveals the students' frustration, anger and disillusionment with a system that has all but forgotten them. The students have staged a walkout and formed a Black Student organization to address their concerns.
Guests:
Hal McKinney, Dick Gregory
Producer :
Brown, Tony
Producer :
Description: Part 2 of the 1968 Christmas special.
Guests:
Stokely Carmichael, John Conyers, Wild Bill Davis, Harry Edwards, Inkster Community Choir, CLR James, John Lewis, Kent Martin, Hal McKinney, Martha Jean Steinberg, Rosalyn Russell, The Brothers of Soul, Lorenzo Wright, William Watson
Host :
Tony Brown, Sandy Lawrence, Reginald Wilson
Producer :
Gilbert Maddox, Tony Brown
Description: This program from the fall of 1968 is interesting for a variety of reasons. It's wide-ranging content mix of news, music, fashion, theater and cultural commentary offers fascinating insight into the concerns and interests of Detroit's African American community of the period. In addition, it provides an enlightening example of local television production style in the late 1960s. Moreover, the program is remarkable for the number of cast and crew members who went on to notable careers in the mass media and academia.
Guests:
Hal McKinney, Gwen McKinney, Bill Murphy, Earl Grant, George Kirby, Horace Bradfield, Robert Tindal
Host :
Sandy Lawrence, Abe Ulmer, Tony Brown
Producer :
Tony Brown
Description: The program covers community events, entertainment news, and the upcoming presidential election. Includes musical acts such as the Hal McKinney Quintet, Bill Murphy, Earl Grant, and Ernest Fowler and The Voices of Conquest, as well as a performance by comedian George Kirby.
Guests:
Tony Brown
Description: One of the creative aspects of the show is the incorporation of "Public Service Announcements," that take a satirical look at Black identity. This "Free Your Mind" clip tackles the issues surrounding the use of beaching and whitening creams. Since the late 1800s Blacks who were unhappy with their skin complexion or thought they could change their social status by lighting their skin, engaged in the process of skin bleaching. Critics of the process argue that internalized racism and self-contempt have caused such individuals to accept degrading and negative images associated with Blackness, thus causing them to over identifying with Eurocentric standards of beauty. While skin whitening is one the most obvious forms of negating Blackness is discussions have also focused on hair styles, chemical process that are used to straighten hair, colored contacts, and cosmetic surgery that alters characteristically African features like the nose and lips. Skin bleaching creams are still sold and used today.
Guests:
International Gospel Choir, Black Students Association, Arthur Ashe Jr, George Kirby, Bill Murphy, Gwen McKinney, Kim Weston, Marcus Belgrave, Thomas Bowles, Diane Carol, Hal McKinney
Host :
Tony Brown
Producer :
Gilbert Maddox, Tony Brown
Description: The program opens with Hal McKinney's jazz band performing "Freedom Jazz Dance," featuring Hal and Gwen McKinney on vocals. Although they are not individually credited, it appears that at least two prominent jazz musicians, trumpeter Marcus Belgrave and saxophonist Thomas "Beans" Bowles, are members of McKinney's band...
Guests:
None
Host :
Abe Ulmer, Tony Brown, Sandy Lawrence
Producer :
Tony Brown
Description: Hosts Abe Ulmer, Tony Brown, and Sandy Lawrence discuss current events, fashion, makeup, and hair styling, and a segment about the life of Frederick Douglass.
Guests:
The Contemporary Jazz Quintet, Eugene Eda, William Walker, The CPT Players, Kent Martin, Carmen Murphy, James Catchings, Joanne Robinson
Host :
Tony Brown, Sandy Lawrence, Abe Ulmer
Producer :
Tony Brown
Description: This show features an investigative segment on the black middle class (00:11:12), a piece on black history, a performance by the CPT Players - led by Kent Martin, and dramatic poetry readings. Abe Ulmer delivers the news, and Sandy Lawrence provides a snapshot of Detroit's upcoming events in the Grapevine feature.
Guests include the Contemporary Jazz Quintet, a local group that will be recording a jazz blue note album (00:03:02-00:08:19); Chicago artists Eugene Eda and William Walker; and the CPT Players.
