African American women authors
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Alice Childress interview and reading (Part 2 only)
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Racism in the Women’s movement (Part 1 only)
In this program, guests talk about the racism forum “Racism in the Women’s movement: how to fight it,” sponsored by the Women Writers Union and Radical Women, and held at the Women’s Building in San Francisco. They are: Suki Durham, member of both organizations, Max Regal, member of the Seattle Radical Women; Ann Finger, organizer…
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Sojourner’s Journal: November 19, 1981-Black women writers and artists
Sojourner’s Journal, a series about Black women. Yasmin Pierre speaks with four Black women writers/artists about their careers and their family lives. The guests are artist, poet and member of Black Writer’s Union Akua Lezli Hope, writer, poet and memeber of the Black Writer’s Union Rashidah Ismaili (b. 1941), member of the Black New York…
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Gloria Naylor interviewed about her novel The Women of Brewster Place
Raw tape of Gloria Naylor, Black woman author, interviewed by Doris Austin[?] about her novel “The Women of Brewster Place.” She reads a passage from the book and then talks with Doris about the book, how Naylor’s visions of the women who populate the book came into being, and more specifically about some of the…
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The Lesbian Show: July 15, 1980 – Third World Lesbian Writers Conference (2nd annual)
The Lesbian Show, produced by Donna Allegra, features readings from the 2nd Annual Third World Lesbian Writers Conference in April 1980, sponsored by the Azalea collective and Salsa Soul. Audre Lorde opened the night reading “Need.” The following readers are Imani, Joan Gibbs, Anita Cornwell, Isis, Arisa Reed, Candice Boyce, Chirlane McCray, and Jabu reading…
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Alice Walker reads Fame from her book You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down / Karla Tonella
Alice Walker reads her short story “Fame” from her book of short stories, “You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down,” at the San Francisco Women’s Building on May 23, 1981. Susanne Lee and Karla Tonella recorded the reading. Walker is the author of three books of poetry: “Once” (1968), “Revolutionary Petunias and other Poems” (1973),…
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Alice Walker reads poetry: Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll see you in the morning / Alan Soldofsky
Alice Walker, Black woman poet and novelist, reads from her new book of poetry “Good night, Willie Lee, I’ll see you in the morning” at Cody’s Bookstore in Berkeley on September 26th, 1979. Walker reads some poems that are not featured in the book. Poems read include I said to poetry, On sight, Overnights, If…
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A woman’s play: One Plus One
A woman’s play: one plus one. A play about two black women dealing with problems. One woman, Baby Sis, deals with problems that result from internal or personal pressures. The other woman, Cheryl, faces those that result from external, or societal, pressures. From the folio: A surrealistic history of Black women through characters such as…
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Women and the world in the 1980s: Barbara Smith and Michele Cliff (ca. 1984)
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Women and the world in the 1980s: August 20, 1982- Audre Lorde