Barrow-Murray, Barbara Moore, Melvin Himes, Eric Joe White, Sunny Sampedro, Eric Tarter, Margaret Yang, Eileen Holmes, Karen
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In this clip Melvin Moore chairs a debate on whether or not Third World women should participate in the women's movement. Media specialist and historian Brenda Verner talks about the need to properly include African American women in the women's rights movement. Overall the program consists of a number of magazine-style segments, including a Barbara Barrow interview with Marge Schiller and Ruth Benjamin (both of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women) on the commission's work as it relates to Third World women, two studio performances from the "The Black Nativity" by vocalists from the Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts, an abbreviated "Open Platform" debate moderated by Melvin Moore on whether or not Third World women should participate in the women's movement (with debaters Brenda Verner (a media analyst) and Michele Wallace (a lecturer at New York University) and panelists Leah Fletcher (reporter for the Boston Herald American) and freelance writer Jan Gadson), a Barbara Barrow interview with Elma Lewis, Director of Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts; the "Say Brother News" with Karen Holmes, Margaret Tarter, Leah Fletcher, Sonny Joe White, Eric Sampedro, and Milly Kiung, and the "Community Calendar." Fletcher's report features an interview with sociologist Joyce Ladner, who recently spoke at Boston University about the Black family; Tarter's report features an interview with Margaret Ashurst, Director of Community Affairs, OXFAM America's Boston (OXFAM is a famine relief organization). Produced by Barbara Barrow. Directed by Eric Himes.
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- African American Women
- African Americans
- Ashurst, Margaret
- Benjamin, Ruth
- Black Nativity (Theatrical Production)
- Civil Rights
- Elma Lewis School Of Fine Arts (Roxbury, Mass.)
- Governor's Commission On The Status Of Women (Massachusetts)
- Lewis, Elma
- National Center Of Afro American Artists (Roxbury, Mass.)
- Oxfam America
- Schiller, Marge
- Segregation
- Verner, Brenda J
- Wallace, Michele
- Women
- Women's Rights