{{Short description|American television series}} {{Italic title}} {{about|the television program|the CBC radio series|Basic Black (CBC program)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}}
'''''Basic Black''''' is a weekly television series airing on WGBH in Boston. Originally known as '''''Say Brother''''', the show was created in 1968 and aims to reflect the concerns and culture of African Americans through short-form documentaries, performances, and one-on-one conversations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wgbh.org/article?item_id=3252011|title=About Basic Black|publisher=WGBH|access-date=2008-07-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080715143857/http://www.wgbh.org/article?item_id=3252011|archive-date=15 July 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>
''Say Brother'' and ''Basic Black'' together represent WGBH Boston's longest-running public affairs program produced by, for and about African Americans.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://openvault.wgbh.org/series/Say+Brother|title=Browse Records By Series|publisher=WGBH|access-date=2008-12-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109223741/http://openvault.wgbh.org/series/Say+Brother/|archive-date=2009-01-09|url-status=dead}}</ref> In April 2000, the WGBH Media Library and Archives was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Archives and Special Collections Preservation and Access grant to preserve ''Say Brother'' tapes dating from 1968 to 1982. The ''Say Brother'' Collection<ref>{{Cite web|title=Say Brother|url=https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/say-brother|access-date=2020-06-10|website=americanarchive.org}}</ref> is accessible online in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting including 83 programs and interviews.
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.basicblack.org ''Basic Black''] – Homepage on WGBH *''[https://americanarchive.org/special_collections/say-brother Say Brother]'' Collection in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting * [https://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=18263909818 ''Basic Black'' Facebook Page] – Group page on Facebook * [http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog?f%5Baccess%5D%5B%5D=Available+Online&f%5Bmedia_type%5D%5B%5D=Video&f%5Bseries_title%5D%5B%5D=Say+Brother&page=10 ''Say Brother''] Archival video clips from the WGBH Archives * [http://main.wgbh.org/saybrother/ ''Say Brother''] at WGBH's Main Archive
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