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Friday, December 4, 1970 THE CAMPUS ECHO PAGE THREE 'Black Journal’ — (continued from page 2) people,” Brown explained. As for “Black Journal,” He vows it will be educational for whites “whether or not they like everything they see. It’ll be a show which projects honesty about the black experience.” The 36-year-old producer is not satisfied with the quantity of blacks programs presently on television. “Black Journal” is unique because it is the only one hour a month of network news about black people,” he says. However, he admits gingerly, “I think the trend is in that di rection. Stations now have local black shows. It’s simply a matter of time before the commercial networks have national black shows.” Brown hopes to make “Black Journal” a “platform” for black producers around the country. He says he will try to set up a network of black “correspond ents” and free-lance producers who would contribute to the program and make it less New York-oriented. Another innovation is to scat- ter what he calls “non commercial commercials’’ through the program. These would be “soft messages empha sizing aspects of the black exper ience.” They would “project an awareness of things about our selves that are very positive,” he says. Brown attributes his success in broadcasting to ability, luck and the benevolence of a few white producers. “I’m a super nigger,” he says, hyperbolizing. “For every black person who made it there’s a million who can't take the pressures. “I have met white guys who have been very helpful to me,” he adds. “1 would not have made it if I had to depend on blacks in these positions because there were none.” Brown feels that the emer gence of the black producer will strengthen the entire broadcast ing industry. Blacks are “the only group that possesses crea tivity” in the industry, he says. “White people have been making statements for 50 years. They are only rehashing them.” ■ Brown came to broadcasti.ng after a career which has included service as a psychiatric social worker in Detroit’s inner city; as a magazine publisher (“The Set”); and as a journalist (he was city editor and drama critic for the Detroit Courier). He was also adjunct professor of psychology at Federal City College in Washington, D. C., where he designed a course in “The Psychology of the Ghet to,” He is president of the Nation al Association of Black Media Producers, u new organization of TV and film producers which currently is challenging the li cense renewals of all Detroit radio and television stations with the aim of increasing the number of blacks and other minority- group members employed in programming. Brown recalls his education at all-black Garnet High School in Charleston, W. Va., as “ideal.” He says, “I learned to relate to black people and we were able to share our problems and solve them together.” He holds a B.A. degree in Sociology and Psychology and a master’s degree in Psychiatric Social Work, both from Wayne State University, Detroit. He served in the U. S. Army from 1953 to 1955. Jobs Available To Students In Europe Jobs Europe program officials announce that they have guaran teed jobs available in Europe anytime of the year for hun dreds of young Americans 18 to 26 years of age for the summer and year-around. The aim of the program is to give young people an inexpen sive and unique cultural oppor tunity to live in and learn about Europe. This is the tenth anniversary of the program. To date, 5,086 students have worked in Europe with their help. These salaried jobs are mostly for general help with large first class European hotels. Most jobs Durham Relations Interest You? Does work in the areas of ed ucation, open housing, commun ity relations, health needs, and police-community relations in terest you? If so, why not join the Durham Council on Human Relations? Any assistance that you can give the Council will be include board and room. Friends can work with, or near each other, if they apply to gether. Dr. Van der Velde of Hol land, vice president of the pro gram, states that “England and the French and German speak ing areas of Switzerland offer the best working conditions and social activities.” An important feature of the See Job Europe page 6 welcomed. Public meetings are held on the last Monday of each month at St. Phillips Episcopal Church on Main Street; the meetings start at 8:00, p.m. The Durham Council on Hu man Relations, a bi-racial organi zation was started seven years ago to combat discrimination in Durham. The Council is affilia ted with the North Carolina Council on Human Relations. Membership fees are $1.00 for students and $3.00 for others. For more information concerning the Durham Council on Human Relations, attend the meetings or write the President, W. C. Lovett, at P. O. Box 8713 Forest Hills Station, Durham, N. C. 27707. Bamaby distributed by Columbia Records CPiC.-’ WA»r* fifc 1 CCtiiMR'A ^VARCiSBtG PftlNTEOiN U S *
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