Say Brother / Basic Black

CTL-E-0725 · Institution · other · 1968-present

Verified evidence grade of this record

Longest-running Black public-affairs TV program (Boston, 1968-present).

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MEDIA-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MEDIA-001:MED-104; source research type(s): Institution.

Sources

American Archive of Public Broadcasting (WGBH special collection); Wikipedia: Basic Black
American Archive of Public Broadcasting

Record CTL-E-0725 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: Verified · CTL research: MEDIA-001.
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