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CLASS OF ‘66—Dr. Harris with 1966 Paine College classmates (from left) Dorothy Carpenter
Turner, Franklin McKie, Earnestine Pettigrew Smith, Wilbert Roberts, Cassie Timmons Jones,
Rodney Harrigan, George Lillian Thompkins, Thomasina Davis Godbee, Georgene James Caldwell,
Audie Nalls Jordan, Mary Kelly Robinson, Annie Stuckey Bonner, Dr. Willis J. Walker, Josie Davis
McCauley, and Lola McGee Richardson. Former President Dr. E. Clayton Calhoun is in
background.
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THE CHARGE—Dr. Daniel A. Collins reads
charge to President Harris as Mrs. Harris looks
on.
Tony Brown’s Journal
Black TV Image Month
A new programming
xrncept, a “mini-series”
iesignated as Black TV
linage Month, will thread
he November line-up for
Tony Brown’s Journal.
This four-part series
xamines various facets of
he overall problem of
>lack identity in television
is depicted by a white con
rolled media.
Part I, “Blacks In White
'V,” details the early
ommerical decisions that
ffect the treatment and
of black actors, as
/ell as the black stereotypes
hat permeate the industry,
lost Tony Brown talks
zith Dr. J. Fred
dacDonald, author of
Hacks And White TV
Nelson-Hall), who
hronicles major historical
eriods of the black TV
-nage from Toms, picanin
ies, fat mammies and
oons to a golden age of
espectability and then back
o the reacial stereotypes of
he early period in
Revision.
Such a view not only
ostered racism, it also
eemed to justify continued
iscrimination. On their
art, blacks drew from
opular culture, a similarly
istorted image of them
elves,” explains Dr.
lac Don aid.
By using film clips in
icative of the shuffling
arkie genre, the program
raphically represents the
ideousness of early TV
nd the insensitivity of the
ledium for the imagery of
ifro- Americans.
Tony Brown’s journal is
le nation’s longest running
lack-affairs series and has
een sponsored by Pepsi
cola Company for seven
onsecutive years. Televised
ationally on public
Revision (PBS), the series
an be seen in this area on
Inauguration held for Dr. William Harris
Channel 20 at s.pm.
Brown summarizes the
see Tony Brown page 7
THE TROUBLED PICTURE
OF BLACKS ON TV
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T!my For many Blacks, the golden age of television has not arrived.
This November, Tony Brown’s Journal presents Black TV Image Month, a four-part
study of Blacks in commercial TV broadcasting. The series kicks off with Blacks in
wOHMU I White 7V an historic film chronology of Blacks in television.
Next week in a highly controversial show. Goodbye, Sgt. Ross?, Tony meets with Hal Williams,
the actor who portrays Sgt. Ross in the television sitcom Private Benjamin. Mr. Williams talks
candidly about the lack of power of Black actors today in dramatic television and Presented by
about his problems in maintaining a mature character in the series. company
Later in the month, the Journal presents Black Soap, a look into Black actors in
previously all-white, daytime, soap opera story lines. And Is TV Off-Color?, an
expose of the “Golden Ghetto” white-power structure in the commercial television IpEPSII
news arena. ,
This November is Black TV Image Month on Tony Browns Journal. Dont miss it.
For an issue of the Tony Brown’s Journal Magazine, T'Xt
featuring Black historical facts and containing program Vv ( . HS - I V x_zll. ZU
transcripts and background information, please enclose
Tony Brown Productions Sunday, November
1501 Broadway, Suite 2014
New York, NY 10036 5:00 PM
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DR. JULIUS SCOTT JR., former Paine president, with choir director
Phyllis Anderson.
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FITZGERALD NATIVES —Jimmy Turner, Harris and Maurice Cherry share joyful moment.
Turner and Harris, both from Fitzgerald, studied together at Paine. Dr. Cherry was then Chaplain at
the college.
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The Augusta News-Review November 6,1982
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