Brown, Tony WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.) Gregory, Dick Jordan, Vernon Dellums, Ronald Abernathy, Ralph Baraka, Imamu Amiri Farrakhan, Louis Hamer, Fannie Lou Cheek, James Morsell, John Height, Dorothy Cleage, Albert

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Episode Number: 49Black Journal conducts a live 90-minute special framed around the crucial question of whether the physical and cultural survival of black people in America is possible. The episode brings together foremost black spokesmen representing a variety of perspectives and organizations, from black nationalists to black moderates, who answer queries from the national black community via a system of regional phone-in centers at PBS affiliates. Phones are manned by local members of Friends of Black Journal and other support groups. Asking the question Is It Too Late?, Black Journal surveys the attitudes of black Americans towards politics, integration, segregation, self-determination, economics, education, movements, leaders and leadership. The participants, who ,in addition to answering queries, each make statements, are: Rev. Ralph Abernathy, president, Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), member of executive council, Congress of African People and head of the Committee for a Unified Newark; Dr. James Cheek, president, Howard University; Rev. Albert Cleage, a Christian Nationalist and pastor of Detroits Shrine of the Black Madonna; Rep. Ronald Dellums (D-California), member of the Congressional Black Caucus; Minister Louis Farrakhan, national spokesman for The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, Nation of Islam; Dick Gregory, social commentator; Fannie Lou Hamer, director, Mississippi Freedom Farm Corp.; Dorothy Height, president, National Council of Negro Women; Vernon Jordan, executive director, National Urban League; and Dr. John Morsell, assistant executive director, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Phone-in centers were established at the following PBS affiliates: WETA, Washington, DC; WTTW, Chicago;...

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