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to help dispel the widely used and that the excuse that there are not enough black knowledgeable and they can build up they can be like nero and the school of communication with howard university a father a conference call black career in communication on may twenty nine thirtieth and thirty for that black monday tuesday wednesday of the month this meeting will bring together black left field in communication and i think the employment in the mass media along with company that organization that have jobs bill carefully highlighted are in television and film radio broadcasting public relation newspaper reporting and magazine writing however to make the problem worse employee of the job a complete and the very much more information on the conference which will be held at howard university and what's the thing right like career at howard university who communicate in washington dc in order to use black journal and the awakening of communication we are
conducting a poll to find out the new black viewing audience what issues are most important to you right up answering the question what do black people want mo and no more than one character a result of a cold then the cab arrives and announce over beautiful address your letter through my journal in columbus circle you're in a few minutes we will prevent karim journal story on our kareem abdul jabbar who could revive the concern of other black professional athlete recruitment or not much of that of the black athlete presently the undeniable for decades black with a thematically excluded from playing a professional for things to counteract the black interested in baseball football and basketball for their own teams around the early nineteen months the negro baseball leagues and they were called became legendary in their time and both of the department that they just dig in and rubel by the mid nineteen
forties white started to allow black in the early and the old negro thing began but they had a black men make up more than half of the fighting flared in basketball and often dominate and most valuable player titleholder and record low eighteen of the twenty four players on laugh even national basketball association all star team were black and because the follow through a novice or professional sports mlb been hardly ever mentioned but without the talent of black players over the years probably what would not have developed into a multimillion dollar moneymaker is the day however blackboard figures are no different from rather than go through the know that the right to withhold daily with white racism and if the facts and for greater than that die than many four from dealing with light the manager who might not you the glare of the call for the outspoken black opinion team owners don't want to pay adequately for their black superstar and it is
a frequent factor than the white friends while have the chili craving white players are constantly criticized the fight of behavior of a black there are several examples any in many feel everything faith in point nevada by the pitcher for the oakland athletics and winner of the american league most valuable player and died young award one powerful than i think that the one baseball season with only fourteen thousand seven hundred and fifty thousand vote the minimum amount paid or for here and he overplayed however during that leaving will prove to be the better bargain eight ever made with a phenomenal record of three hundred one strikeout twenty four victory and only a bp most importantly than fifty jailed that we traveled along with the bach thought the defendant all open gate on the fact that the asians with open played before a crowd for forty thousand or more blue fifty eight attracted a poll of nearly one hundred and forty
thousand more than a year in which he played about the only area in which to fail wasn't getting a flowery commensurate with without any reform oakland on a jar family refuses to pay the multi talented pitcher over fifty thousand are however other things are more than willing to pay well over that amount but then we won't really build contractor them and they've all the more valuable picture may be forced to put out the meanwhile oakland owner has recently acquired white figured they were playing with a seventy five thousand dollars now let's hear mclean one fan i'm also twenty two and with baseball of the four hundred and forty to play i think in the national football league draft recently only one he'll be in junior college the state with a black quarterback and brad price was editor of the los angeles sentinel noted in a recent article none of the twenty fifth row professional had a black quarterback starting to think of going from a running back for the dallas cowboys think about the widespread riots your common
form an impressive record and with a major force in helping ballot along the road to the super bowl and finally found thing as the number one professional team of the press could not understand why thomas wouldn't grant them any interview or even answer reporters' was not agree with them repeatedly the white protagonist podium and reporting on his dealings with the cowboys man effect after seven months of avoiding reporter from the rabid an interview over the troubled without manage the fed quote i want to be my own man i figured they couldn't beat me i wasn't a stereotype alma mater who comes in and there's a white man in the family even without exploiting his name mohamed allie many white members of the press briefing you refer to him i think children named muhammad ali and doing drama along with dai temple are very few blacks in fort would dare to be gay from the new film all day are expected to conform to one other person with broken along with that which
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Series
Black Journal
Episode Number
60
Episode
Kareem
Producing Organization
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Contributing Organization
Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/512-154dn40k35
NOLA Code
BLJL
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Description
Episode Description
With the Milwaukee Bucks currently vying for their second consecutive National Basketball Association Championship, Black Journal focuses on their superstar, center Kareem Abdul Jabbar, recently voted by the players as the NBA's most valuable player. The episode aired during the final days of the NBA playoffs. The profile includes an exclusive interview with Jabbar by Black Journal's Stan Lathan, which reveals a candid picture of the man and the athlete. Jabbar, who generally avoids the press, says of the Black Journal episode, "I am glad to have the opportunity to show people where I'm at for real." From his boycott of the 1968 Olympics to his practice of the Islamic religion, Jabbar discusses a number of subjects - his feelings about his height, his marriage, sports as a money-making business, blacks as professional athletes and their commitment to the black community, and the media's portrayal of him, among others. "People have the feeling that I'm a nasty nigger," he says, answering why he is often booed on the road. "I've never been what you would call an organization man - I stayed away from the Olympics" - Jabbar goes on to explain that he has always been portrayed as the "arch nemesis - the bad guy - with a black hat and the mustache." He gives his reasons for boycotting the Olympics: "We were trying to point out to the world the futility of winning the gold medal for this country and then coming back to live under oppression." On Islam (not to be confused with the Black Muslim variety), he says: "I find it to be what I need - it gives me strength and the guideline by which to live." These guidelines are symbolized by his name Kareem, meaning "noble"- Abdul, the servant of Allah; and Jabbar, "strength." Jabbar also recalls his adolescence in Harlem ("hanging around and playing ball") where he met many of his friends, some of whom have become "disaster victims - scagged out" by drugs. Asked how he can reconcile the fact that he boycotted the Olympics yet takes part in a "big business" entertainment controlled by whites, he answers: "This is how I do my job - This is business. The Olympics is political." And as to the huge salary he commands (a five-year contract rumored to be in excess of $1,400,000), he says, "It's all been justified - Since I've been on this team, they've been making a lot more money." In another portion of the program Black Journal focuses on the condition of blacks in sports, reviewing among others the case of Vida Blue. "Black Journal" is a production of NET Division, Educational Broadcasting Corporation (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Series Description
Black Journal began as a monthly series produced for, about, and - to a large extent - by black Americans, which used the magazine format to report on relevant issues to black Americans. Starting with the October 5, 1071 broadcast, the show switched to a half-hour weekly format that focused on one issue per week, with a brief segment on black news called "Grapevine." Beginning in 1973, the series changed back into a hour long show and experimented with various formats, including a call-in portion. From its initial broadcast on June 12, 1968 through November 7, 1972, Black Journal was produced under the National Educational Television name. Starting on November 14, 1972, the series was produced solely by WNET/13. Only the episodes produced under the NET name are included in the NET Collection. For the first part of Black Journal, episodes are numbered sequential spanning broadcast seasons. After the 1971-72 season, which ended with episode #68, the series started using season specific episode numbers, beginning with #301. The 1972-73 season spans #301 - 332, and then the 1973-74 season starts with #401. This new numbering pattern continues through the end of the series.
Broadcast Date
1972-05-02
Asset type
Episode
Topics
Race and Ethnicity
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:32:00
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Credits
Executive Producer: Brown, Tony
Interviewee: Jabbar, Kareem Abdul
Interviewer: Lathan, Stan
Producing Organization: WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
AAPB Contributor Holdings
Library of Congress
Identifier: 1833176-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape
Generation: Master
Color: Color
Duration: 0:30:05
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Identifier: 1833176-2 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: Digital Betacam
Generation: Copy: Access
Duration: 0:30:05
Library of Congress
Identifier: 1833176-4 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: Color
Library of Congress
Identifier: 1833176-5 (MAVIS Item ID)
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Library of Congress
Identifier: 1833176-3 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Master
Color: Color
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Chicago: “Black Journal; 60; Kareem,” 1972-05-02, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 23, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-154dn40k35.
MLA: “Black Journal; 60; Kareem.” 1972-05-02. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 23, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-154dn40k35>.
APA: Black Journal; 60; Kareem. Boston, MA: Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-154dn40k35