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Oral history interview with Utrice Leid
- Title
- Oral history interview with Utrice Leid/ conducted by James Briggs Murray.
- Author
- Leid, Utrice.
- Publication
- New York ; 2001.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Disc 2 | Moving image | Use in library | Sc Visual DVD-1013 Disc 2 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Disc 1 | Moving image | Use in library | Sc Visual DVD-1013 Disc 1 | Schomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound |
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- Description
- 2 videodiscs (DVD) (116 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- The oral history interview with Utrice Lead covers her her early life in Trinidad and immigration to New York City. The interview is devoted primarily to her career in journalism, beginning with the creation in 1976 of the Trans-Urban News Service with Andrew W. Cooper, a columnist for the New York “Amsterdam News;” the co-founding of The City Sun with Cooper in 1984 and her resignation in 1992; and her involvement with WBAI. She discusses the controversy that followed her appointment as general manager of the station, as well as the state of black journalism.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Oral history.
- Nonfiction films.
- Note
- VHS
- Credits (note)
- Produced and directed by James Briggs Murray.
- Event (note)
- Recorded on May 11, 2001, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Black Journalists Oral History Project.
- Original Version (note)
- Archival original: 2 videocassettes (MII) in Sc Visual VRC-24.
- Biography (note)
- Trinidadian American journalist and political commentator, Utrice Lead was the managing editor of The City Sun and general manager of New York radio station WBAI.
- Call Number
- Sc Visual DVD-1013.
- OCLC
- NYPG03-F295
- Author
- Leid, Utrice. ive.
- Title
- Oral history interview with Utrice Leid/ conducted by James Briggs Murray.
- Imprint
- New York ; 2001.
- Credits
- Produced and directed by James Briggs Murray.
- Event
- Recorded on May 11, 2001, at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Black Journalists Oral History Project.
- Biography
- Trinidadian American journalist and political commentator, Utrice Lead was the managing editor of The City Sun and general manager of New York radio station WBAI.
- Original Version
- Archival original: 2 videocassettes (MII) in Sc Visual VRC-24.
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- Added Author
- Ledi, Utrice.Murray, James Briggs. ivr.Black Journalists Oral History Project.WBAI Radio (New York, N.Y.)
- Research Call Number
- Sc Visual DVD-1013. Service copy.