Descriptions:
The premiere episode of NET’s monthly magazine, Black Journal, the first of a series devoted to the interests and concerns of black America. Segments include a satire by Godfrey Cambridge, an address by Coretta Scott King, a report on the Poor People’s Campaign, and a study of the African American political reaction to the [Robert] Kennedy assassination. The first segment consists of taped highlights of an address given on June 12 at Harvard University by Coretta Scott King, the first woman ever to present the Class Day address at Harvard. “It’s In to Be Black,” a skit written, staged, and performed by Cambridge with members of Chicago’s Second City troupe, examines the quest for representation in the mass media. The progress of the Poor People’s Campaign is analyzed by Earl Caldwell, daily columnist from Resurrection City for the New York Times. Other stories concern the attitudes of graduating black seniors at Harvard University and at Atlanta’s Morehouse and Spelman colleges toward war, the draft, Black Po
Broadcast Date
1968-06-12
Asset type
Episode
Topics
Race and Ethnicity
Rights
Copyright 1968, National Educational Television and Radio Center
