Acknowledgments  ix

Introduction. Reverberations of the King Assassiantion  1

1. Welcome to Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant, Your Community Program! Visualizing Black Brooklyn, 1968–1971  24

2. Say Brother and Boston's New Principles of Blackness  53

3. No Thanks for Tokenism: Telling Stories from a Black Nation, Black Journal, 1968–1970  83

4. That New Black Magic: Black Arts and Women's Liberation on Soul!  123

Conclusion  153

Notes  159

Bibliography  171

Index  185

"Black Power TV effectively works in the space of the articulation between an emergent radical Black identity, the ascendant network of public television, and the debate over what equality and racial democracy might actually look like from the vantage point of progressive Black people. Devorah Heitner provides a rich look into an exciting and innovative world of black self-making and self-representation."—Herman S. Gray, author of Cultural Moves: African Americans and the Politics of Representation

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