Black Power TV: Early Black Public Affairs Television

Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant
Local prgoram broadcast by WNEW public television in New York City from 1968-1970.

• Leroi Jones Young Spirit House Movers and Players, from Inside Bed-Stuy, 1968
• Harry Belafonte on Inside Bed-Stuy, 1968

Black Journal/Tony Brown's Journal
Program with national coverage first broadcast by National Educational Television in New York City.

• Black Journal, 1968-1970
• Selected episodes from 1972- (under the title "Tony Brown's Journal") in Library resource (log in required).

Say Brother
Local program broadcast by WGBH public television in Boston from 1968 forward.

• 11 minute clip of George Clinton and the Parliaments
• Clips Archive in reverse chronological order

Soul!
Ran from 1968-1974 on WNDT Public Television in New Jersey.  It reached a national audience.

• 11 complete episodes from 1971-1973

Black, Blue, Black (from the San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive)
Maya Angelou wrote and directed this 1968 series broadcast on KQED public television in San Francisco.

• Excerpts from episode 7: Maya Angelou interviews African American entrepreneurs,
• Excerpts from episode 9: Maya Angelou interviews political activists and community members on the streets of Watts in Los Angeles.

Our People
"Televised weekly forum for black issues...for, by and about, black Chicagoans," running 1968-1972 on WTTW.

• Only known full episode of Our People : 1968 broadcast featuring Harold Washington and James Baldwin.

Colored People's Time/Detroit Black Journal/American Black Journal
Detroit public TV station WTVS broadcast this news show focused on local community building beginning in 1968.

• Two complete episodes and several clips from 1968 as well as many more from the 1970s forward

List of Black-Produced TV Shows Nationwide, 1968-