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  • Black Omnibus Episode #1.5 (Season 1, Episode 5)
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Black Omnibus

Episode #1.5 (Season 1, Episode 5)
TV Episode | Talk-Show
The theme for this show is black women. Lou Rawls, the baritone-voiced, world-renowned singer, and three-time Grammy-winner is the program's opening act. Paula Kelly, actress, singer, and dancer returns to Black Omnibus singing a song made...See moreThe theme for this show is black women. Lou Rawls, the baritone-voiced, world-renowned singer, and three-time Grammy-winner is the program's opening act. Paula Kelly, actress, singer, and dancer returns to Black Omnibus singing a song made famous by Billie Holiday, following up with a moving, interpretive dance duet with a male partner. Mr. Jones leads a discussion of the intersection of race and gender with two prominent black women of the time, Althea Gibson, tennis star, professional golfer, and Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, the first black woman to represent the west coast in Congress. In one of his first television appearances, Luther Ingram performs the most popular song he is known for today: "If Loving You is Wrong, I Don't Want to Be Right". Actress, poet, playwright, and author Beah Richards shares a verse performance piece she wrote, "A Black Woman Speaks". Oscar Brown Jr., actor, singer, songwriter, poet, and civil rights activist and Jean Pace (older sister of actress Judy Pace, later wife of Oscar Brown, Jr.) closes out the show performing a moving, biting riposte on slave auctions with his song "Bid 'Em In". Written by vtedwards See less
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Writer
Bernie Rollins
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Status
Edit Released
Updated Dec 31, 1973
Release date
1973 (United States)

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