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In Black Power TV; Devorah Heitner chronicles the emergence of Black public affairs television starting in 1968. She examines two local shows; New Yorks Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant and Bostons Say Brother; and the national programs Soul! and Black Journal. These shows offered viewers radical and innovative programming: the introspections of a Black police officer in Harlem; African American high school students discussing visionary alternatives to the curriculum; and Miriam Makeba comparing race relations in the United States to apartheid in South Africa. While Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant and Say Brother originated from a desire to contain Black discontent during a period of urban uprisings and racial conflict; these shows were re-envisioned by their African American producers as venues for expressing Black critiques of mainstream discourse; disseminating Black culture; and modeling Black empowerment. At the national level; Soul! and Black Journal allowed for the imagining of a Black nation and a distinctly African American consciousness; and they played an influential role in the rise of the Black Arts Movement. Black Power TV reveals how regulatory; activist; and textual histories are interconnected and how Black public affairs television redefined African American representations in ways that continue to reverberate today.