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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is not Enuf

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Himes, Eric Moore, Melvin Barrow-Murray, Barbara Fletcher, Leah Kiung, Milly Yang, Eileen Sampedro, Eric

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This clips features an in-studio performance by Barbara Alston from the play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is not Enuf by Ntozake Shange. This performance was filmed at the time the play was being staged in Boston. Overall the program consists of a number of magazine-style segments, including a Barbara Barrow interview with actors Paula Larke and Barbara Alston about their current performances in a production of Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is not Enuf, three performances from For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is not Enuf (two by Paula Larke, one by Barbara Alston); an "Open Platform" debate moderated by Melvin Moore on whether or not Third World women should participate in the women's movement (with debaters Brenda Verner (a media analyst) and Michele Wallace (lecturer at New York University), and panelists Leah Fletcher (reporter for the Boston Herald American) and freelance writer Jan Gadson), and the "Say Brother News" with Leah Fletcher, Sonny Joe White, Eric Sampedro, and Milly Kiung. Fletcher's report features an interview with sociologist Joyce Ladner, who recently spoke at Boston University about the Black family; White's report features an interview with jazz musician Dexter Gordon. Produced by Barbara Barrow. Directed by Eric Himes.
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Horne, DannyMacDonald, GregWaters, MitchWareham, SkipWhite, ConradStewart, AubreyDemers, LeoTomaselli, RobertJohnson, NatSmith, LeeWilson, BobSullivan, John LRivera, GeorgeMcGonagle, RichardClark, MarvinCronin, MaryPlausse, JohnHill, RebeccaKane, PatFairweather, BillBuccheri, RonMahard, FranSmith, KathyLewis, WebsterMorton, WilLaBillois, AnnColeman, VernMacKnight, JohnClarke, BrianMackles, Gene
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