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Charles Hobson, Who Helped Break a TV Color Line, Dies at 83

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/...-helped-break-a-tv-color-line-dies-at-83.html


Hobson is best known for shows such as “Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant," on WNEW-TV in New York.


His programs not only provided a singular perspective on contemporary issues; they also gave an unfiltered voice to people who had been neglected when television was struggling through its adolescence.

“Inside Bedford-Stuyvesant,” which ran from 1968 until 1970 on WNEW-TV in New York, has been called the city’s first regular program written, produced and presented by black people.
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