1970 Video Of Black Couples Debating Their Relationships

By David Hoffman

This 1970 informal discussion appeared on national television – PBS – and was part of a series of television specials that presented the Black American perspective from a Black point of view. The reporter seen in this program worked for the Chicago Daily Defender, America’s largest Black newspaper at the time. She was reporting on the emergence of the “new Black woman”. It was a time when Black Americans were talking about Black consciousness, Black is beautiful, Black power, and about the relationships between Black men and Black women – about the Black family structure and the values that men and women felt.