Black Power TV A Community Forum, Video Screening and Book Signing

In Devorah Heitner's book Black Power TV, she chronicles the evolution of Black public affairs television during the 1960s and ‘70s through the emergence of local and national programming. New York's Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant and Boston's Say Brother offered their own take on mainstream discourse while also highlighting important figures in Black history and exploring Black culture and art. Black Power TV reveals how the early Black public affairs television programs redefined African American representations in ways that continue to reverberate in society today.

Join Black Power TV author and media scholar Devorah Heitner for a screening and discussion of segments from Black public affairs shows from around the country including Philadelphia's Visions. Led by WPVI's news reporter and anchor Vernon Odom, the distinguished panel will include:
- Camille Charles, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Social Sciences and Chair of the Department of Africana Studies
- Trudy Haynes, Broadcast journalist, Former entertainment reporter for KYW 3; Host, The Trudy Haynes Show, Sunday Magazine and Sunday Side Up
- Louis Massiah, Executive Director of the Scribe Video Center

At the conclusion of the forum, Heitner will be available to sign copies of Black Power TV. Copies will be available for sale at the event.

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