First of all, I must give all credit to architecture and cultural critic, photographer and executive director for the Chicago Central Area Committee, Lee Bey, who wrote on his NPR radio/Wbez-fm Chicago blog today about the short-lived TV series, Bird of the Iron Feather, which is considered to be the first black soap opera ever on television. And if you've never heard of it, that's completely understandable. The show was a local production made by Chicago's local PBS station, Wttw (long before PBS became PBS), back some 43 years ago, in 1970. And to say that it was a sensation is putting it mildly. The show was hot and the talk of the town. First of all, here was a regular TV series that dealt head on with racism, poverty, corruption and the antagonistic relationship between black people and the police, that was broadcast in Chicago, which was then, and is still called,...
- 2/13/2013
- by Sergio
- Indiewire Television
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