Initial Broadcast Date: February 5, 1974
60 minutes -- Color
This program featured a debate between black psychiatrists Dr. Frances Welsing, author of “The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism” and Dr. William Shockley, Nobel prize-winner in physics. Using a two-way communication system of telephone conversations between the home viewing audience and studio guests, viewers participated in debating the question, “Is Black Better or White Brighter?” Dr. Shockley, a white man who believes blacks are genetically inferior, clashed with Dr. Welsing, a black woman who believes whites are genetically inferior. Tony Brown, executive producer is host/moderator.
“Black Journal” is a production of WNET New York.
Executive producer: Tony Brown
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