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Can the Sun Be Your Enemy? (1977-09-23)
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In this clip, Dr. Alvin Pouissant, Psychologist and Professor at Harvard University Medical School, talks to Leah Fletcher about the high rate of Black on Black murders and the social and psychological reasons behind these homicides. Overall, the program consists of a number of magazine-style segments, including a Stephen Curwood interview with Dr. Patricia Frazier (of Robert B. Brigham Hospital) and Henrietta Aladjem (author of the book, The Sun Is My Enemy) on the disease lupus, two studio performances by Stanton Davis and the Ghetto Mysticism Band (who perform "Funkified Tofu" and "Crescent Gypsies"), an "Open Platform" debate moderated by Melvin Moore on whether or not Massachusetts should fund Medicaid abortions (with debaters Dr. Mildred Jefferson, President of the both the Massachusetts and the National Right to Life committees, and Niki Nichols Gamble, Executive Director of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, and panel reporters James Drummey, news editor of Review of The News magazine and Susan Sprecher of WBCN Radio), the "Say Brother News" with Karen Holmes, Margaret Tarter, Leah Fletcher, Eric Sampedro, and Tanya Hart, and the "Community Calendar." Tarter's…
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WGBH Educational Foundation
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Say Brother, Alvin Pouissant, Leah Fletcher, Stephen Curwood, Patricia Frazier, Henrietta Aladjem, Stanton Davis and the Ghetto Mysticism Band, Mildred Jefferson, Niki Nichols Gamble, James Drummey, Susan Sprecher, Karen Holmes, Margaret Tarter, Eric Sampedro, Tanya Hart, Jack Hayes, Robert B. Brigham Hospital, Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, lupus, Black on Black violence, Medicaid abortions, Boston, Massachusetts, The Circle, Review of The News
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