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it's been the pay to play the ponies this is the beginning of a new year and we buy journal hope to spend it in more and no investigations into all areas black during the coming year we will feature film about a brother now in prison and his co search for frederick douglass we will look at black ops emerging black lawyers and the man martin luther king we'll build in gary indiana to investigate what we call reading writing and arithmetic and cooperate we will also present two more black papers on white racism other features include is god who killed malcolm and a trinidad folktale
a very special significance is our live ninety minute black special is it too late scheduled for february eighth at that time why drama will conduct an experiment using television as an instrument for positive social reform we will also provide a platform from which black spokesman and respond to you their constituency for ninety minutes twelve leading black spokesman will make statements and answer your telephone questions on the issues dynamics and institutions in america which affect our lives as black people you will be able to vote in your questions to regional telephone service that's february eight tonight we'll take a look at one alternative education structure in the country of diana people people when the national guard on the northeastern coast of
south america gained independence from british rule in nineteen sixty six people and their government knew that only the first ever been taking the next step was to produce in the shortest possible time that he's with adequate skills to make a multitude of names in a newly independent country this is one thats hard to complete because it means training people in economics aside politics technology and other biofuels but the bills also require a sense of pride and confidence that may have been destroyed by slavery and colonialism to complete his death there must be a series of innovative approach to the whole concept of education with compulsory education for children seven to fourteen years of age now boasts an eighty five percent literacy rate however a high birthrate in recent years as lead to an acute shortage of schools and qualified trained personnel also at the college level the university got i have been struggling with an adequate funds to develop and expand its curriculum so less and ids would have to go abroad for specialized professional and technical training
examining diana's efforts and her struggle to educate the people we find them from voting problems that are common to most third world developing nations and education only begins with the children there are also programs and diane i geared toward benefiting the economy of the country as well as the adult population is this justice here and for drawing and the rest of the island we have the food nutrition program which is designed to raise a headstart and it's off at home in this is kind of a nationality applied nutrition program which is part of our fifty nations
campaign ladies who attend the course learned to correct an intense preparation of votes so that from the minds of the titian is right i am at the community development officer for the race and put them around my job involves working with the people in the canadians handed people have been encouraged to grow more milk products and this may have been the economy of the country as we be cutting down on imports and diana bahr number of ethnic groups including africans east indians mr indians chinese europeans and others one goal of the government has been three raised tensions that in the past it led to racial balance between the two larger groups prime minister forged burnham's placed a major emphasis on this effort
there are culturally and ethically diverse society with two major who saw a fake i'm an indian firm india in the early sixties there were severe racial differences between indians and africans however since my government took office in nineteen sixty four these racial animosities have to a large extent subsided i would not formal would say that there's no racial difference of innovation differences this has worn off the people are living better there working better together and more and more they're moving to the position really recognize this incident ethnic ties made important under british colonial rule when the proceeds of racial barriers between these two oppressed people were planted africans were brought to guide against their own free will for slaves to work large sugar as
states east indians came later after slavery was abolished as indentured laborer and were allowed to keep their religion language another cultural ties that had been denied to the africans this disparity in status naturally put the african population further behind these campaigns are aggressively and now bonnie's of african descent like their brothers in the united states labor under the task of re establishing a sense of cultural pride and i've been to austria is an organization dedicated to heighten the awareness of black nannies oh yeah i don't know will be it's
an idea rasmus of
education and charged by the constitution the responsibility for education again has influenced the priory school system the secondary school system university technical education or even perhaps in very general terms of there's really no different from the education system with any other country says education law it's formed the underpinning for whatever development of projects the pages of one is thinking of education indiana house to produce can provide the people who live among the various sectors of the economy where it is that the planning and more important to my men who inhabit orientation that goes along with the country to the philosophy that we have you know no no because of
the high cost of education the forty four government secondary schools and diana are not free and build a government awards a number of free places every year there are still students who can't get in because of finances here in the village of buxton however republic walk in high school it's owned and managed as a co op that village residents on the students themselves this allows for open admission innovations in curriculum and for such changes at replacing the school dealt with an african drum and beginning every school day with a prayer to our ancestors he says it's business cards are some sanctions as a physics chemistry was on
some news of the movie uses heat if you're caught up on the campus of them is i think that bp didn't know that we have the same thing with farming on sudan's army were tribal groups and we respect such as us to serve but now we're trying to understand that they're as many as great black man theory of changing that is no means doctors because they are me
mrs bean it creeps mr gray for many who were caught
in an education assistant was good regions continents many had masses of the bones to prove it doesn't force so many have fewer clark so he had a few second there is very good grammar school then a second base and they had these defensive blacks were taught to read it right at some of the races that you're going to have more imported to carry out orders that was part of the point was that not only about abortion should be manufactured so that was not need it does these clocks it also meant that part of the education system was to give a certain ideas this would ensure remain the college ag good given would say you know if you want to become a sort of person that you become as nearly at folsom lake of british masters for standards of beauty you have to have even features and things like this inflation was pushed in the growth of that you were not even conscious of the trade it was
fighting for the enormous because it seemed to me what will be inadvisable and education assistance force that something's important differences that the tortoises and then there's one that emphasized that individualism not reported to republican and independent country the uproar the voices very frequently know we find that those of us who have been brought in and the system of education after need to we have been encouraged to just over six we have the toy that a lot of these other than that he worked in opposition to become accustomed to thinking of ourselves as communities in suburban the same kind of interest you know we have to get enough work to keep a section in our education system so we have to transform and tag your curriculum not going in secondary schools but in randy's house but the children in an agricultural community it is wrong to feel that there's something wrong with putting
your hand in one which is inherently a fifteen second baseman chipper and then there's some pride in using your hands that you agree in annual timeless work together and very very important to every primary school in the startup so that the students themselves have recently speeds are running a portrait so that what the us really how the kenyans off distant before them says is to find some legal training and that without reading for muscle offer them and that was the general attitude i have that it is good to be back in ghana and part of the point of the republicans were mainly but i understand why with what the atmospheres of those system of economical a trade the ring this bias against them
the city's train system on this school since tom feelings an african american artist has left the united
states to live and ireland and make his contribution to the development of educational materials there i'm here to work the speedboats textbooks primary books for the children again books that will say something about the history of them as he pointed to say something much of this very important to learn the truth about their background and is this a plan but the experience that people had as the city's new world south america the west indies american excess ceo final years here on drugs they want to learn who is very important to learn that feeling can be whatever they want to be as low as a gifted this is the first time i've worked with a group of first time i worked with a group and i was able and stand am able to do
given myself in a state that the workers and the vision for the myth that everything that i did ended up being as an individual what here i'm able to take this good man to integrated with the skills the black people happy and together we do we were gone is a collective thirty i think that one of things that they'd have to do is get out of the state if they can't see the black people all over this world have the ingenuity and creativity and brains and for those who can afford to get out who making that money on ibm or any other kind of jobs may be overcome that you can find out there that
people here have brains and that we need each other we need to collectively hold our resources so we can build and control our lives were injured at and realizing that young people are realizing that physical independents alone does not mean you've really the garden of diane it is teaching its people the skills necessary for nation building they have also moved to raise the level of cultural awareness of the population while task for all non white people and they're doing it through education by reaching the minds of the people were thank you
this is a sample of some letters from our viewers alike teacher from wilmington north carolina writes quote my black children especially are starving for information relevant to their problems she felt larger won't solve their problem assistant texas find black girl quote a much needed moral and self image builder she intends to recommend a program for students teachers and parents alike to do so we suggest she follow others around the country in farming friends a vibrant support groups then from a brother in cleveland was already organized friends of my journal receive a request for more by jerome bumper stickers and buttons were glad the group is growing and suggests that members use a telephone tree to get even more brothers and sisters to watch the program the telephone trees so members of the group in cleveland called their friends before biden was aired and encouraged him to watch to a teacher in washington dc interested in audio visual we can make my drama films available to those calls organizations interested in holding a black girl film festival was as frederick
bonaparte from philadelphia writes will just enjoy another true black experience through a magnificently produced by darrell wiggin give praises and thanks to you for the finest one half hour of television viewing on the airwaves if any of the previous ideas interest you write white girl ten columbus circle new york one or one night and we'll answer your questions and you are free teach brochure which explains our philosophy from time to time by drone will look at the creative works of young black filmmakers including new york's community film workshop council and national educational television straining school both groups are working for the old wooden chance to express black ideas culture and feelings on sale begin at television training school formerly the black drove home workshop is directed by sister peggy pan it was the first of its kind to teach minorities free of charge all aspects of filmmaking and a thirty six week course students learn still photography scriptwriting sound recordings
and cinematography of falling foam encounter to this from any t's training school it's bleak i don't know i
do i came upon them
and the guy went to renovate week they were in the parade with a latino july people of the book the ticket with muddy held out of that paycheck for a lot of lot of why they do it like a row of ad boy that would be the blue radio they're a lot more powerful than you think they are
it's b tonight would like to encourage more young blacks to enter the field of filmmaking and communications so that these skills can be used in our struggle tonight we dedicate the black national anthem to the future black communicators now
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Series
Black Journal
Episode Number
46
Episode
Learn, Baby, Learn
Producing Organization
WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
Contributing Organization
Library of Congress (Washington, District of Columbia)
AAPB ID
cpb-aacip/512-9k45q4sh58
NOLA Code
BLJL
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Description
Episode Description
In a second episode devoted to Guyana, Black Journal focuses on that country's educational system as an instrument in nation-building. Visits to various Guyanese classrooms and interviews with Prime Minister Forbes Burnam, Minister of Education Shirley Field Ridley, educators and students, reveal that concepts of black pride, confidence, self-help and national cooperation are the ABC's of Guyana's educational philosophy. Where colonial Guyana sought merely to produce a work force for its masters, the newly-independent Guyana seeks to produce a people with the adequate skills and philosophies needed for nation-building. Therefore its educational curricula include economics, science, technology, agriculture, black history, and black culture. To involve the masses in economic efforts and reinforce the self-help standard, the Guyanese government encourages through its educational program the growth of local products, which will help to eliminate all dependence on foreign aid, and reduce imports. Hence, according to Minister Ridley, children learn that there is nothing wrong "with putting your hands in the mud" -- a concept once repugnant to those who sought to copy the values of their European master. They are also taught the value of working together cooperatively - a necessary lesson for a nation whose economy depends on a system of cooperatives. This factor also helps to ease tensions between Guyanese of African heritage and those of Indian heritage, who have historically been at odds. Prime Minister Burnam notes that "animosities have subsided since my government took over" and considers ethnic origin incidental to national unity. Guyanese are made more aware of their African heritage through a program called Ascria which provides them with information about Africa, black heroes, and cultural norms. This serves to restore black pride and confidence, which colonial masters attempted to destroy. The episode also goes to a high school in Buxton built in a cooperative effort by the townspeople. It is owned and managed by blacks who have replaced the traditional school bell with an African drum and the morning hymn with an African chant. Black Journal also speaks to Tom Feelings, an American artist and educator who has gone to Guyana to illustrate textbooks for children. Influenced by the extent of cooperation and collective efforts in that country, Feelings used other black Americans to come to Guyana and other such countries "to pool our resources and build our own life." In a "Grapevine" segment, a brief film made by students of the NET Television Training School is shown. "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
1972-01-04
Asset type
Episode
Topics
Race and Ethnicity
Media type
Moving Image
Duration
00:29:59
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Credits
Executive Producer: Brown, Tony
Interviewee: Ridley, Shirley Field
Interviewee: Burnam, Forbes
Interviewee: Feelings, Tom
Producing Organization: WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.)
AAPB Contributor Holdings
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2086763-1 (MAVIS Item ID)
Format: 2 inch videotape: Quad
Generation: Master
Color: Color
Duration: 0:29:27
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2086763-3 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Copy: Access
Color: Color
Library of Congress
Identifier: 2086763-2 (MAVIS Item ID)
Generation: Master
Color: Color
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Citations
Chicago: “Black Journal; 46; Learn, Baby, Learn,” 1972-01-04, Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed April 24, 2024, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-9k45q4sh58.
MLA: “Black Journal; 46; Learn, Baby, Learn.” 1972-01-04. Library of Congress, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. April 24, 2024. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-512-9k45q4sh58>.
APA: Black Journal; 46; Learn, Baby, Learn. 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-512-9k45q4sh58