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* . iiR W> O O .. Ar Pi ! 3s. ~ iW' jogBQBBp jBP’WBk WWR i V Bra JRh a *♦»* Jfirtk iA ■ js® v * ?K®"••' w «ki Jsr' H 8 Adin. "WE■ ■ ’ , &. . W’ ’WiSi" S ®W -■•*■ r u2K 31 HmBT f ■ J ' ■ 9 nfer- ' | gw ; Mil WTfc>fW L ®JF fff*j|»4? kii ** * ■HI Im F w 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. JBb ' tHHßmhtWf ' ■’j sQ 1^ iyy. w I i h I MHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHf 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 I ' IBf 'WIr / \> 'SGS •HI i V 11 If H - ■ ■ --xi' ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■Mil | @ [Il i I I 111 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 &‘ w -S’ *.-Sll jwj i ss • IB sb f f j ’ "" DR. JULIUS SCOTT JR., former Paine president, with choir director Phyllis Anderson. lb* Jh < > - -ji * •< c ,|B \J7 <i jb k ik *V* F V W' F ■-- x. Jw a • Wi, ? W* <■ 1 s ww* 4 ’'W*wW '■?■'■■ ” \»K 'ln w 'BU W I 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. • ■ I I ■ I I' , I I -O I ■, », i > A. I - . 9 ■i < ■ -1 1 a i I I -L- Sr /y// hl I - r ii B y 7 IJ; JllflMk ■ tShiKIBB Uh •< JMFi. jfftl'M W BF ... iC. «\ I a I I MIST I HI • ;>. : B '<*? siusCT«O ft KKCKLtSM B LKO **«> > MISTING Misting is going first-class all the way. It's the smooth, distinctive .taste of Canadian Mist. An Imported Canadian Whisky. IMPORTED by B f SPIRITS LTD N Y CANADIAN WHISKY A BLEND 80 PROOF CI9BI The Augusta News-Review November 6,1982 Page 3