African American women authors
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Women and the world in the 1980s: Barbara Smith and Michele Cliff (ca. 1984)
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The Negro woman in American literature (Episode 2, Part 2 of 2)
This program from the April conference held at New York’s New School is a discussion of the Negro woman in America and in American literature. Participants are poet Sarah Wright, playwright Alice Childress, singer and actress Abbey Lincoln, novelist Paule Marshall and poet Sterling A. Brown. New School/WBAI. Part 2 of 2.
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You can’t keep a good woman down (Part 2 of 2) / Alice Walker ; interviewed by Karla Tonella.
Alice Walker is primarily known as a novelist and short story writer, and is a major figure in both Black American and Feminist literature. In this program we hear Walker read two stories from her new book “You Can’t Keep A Good Woman Down,”– “Fame” and “The Abortion.” The reading is mixed with her talking…
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Ntozake Shange: Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo
Author Ntozake Shange reads from her novel, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (St. Martin’s Press, 1982) at Cody’s bookstore in Berkeley, CA in September 1982. Shange describes the book before reading excerpts from it and is then interviewed by KPFA’s Ginny Z. Berson. Reading at Cody’s recorded by Pam Scola. This recording is identical to AZ0675.
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Reading of the short story, “Changes” by author Denise Oliver
Reading of short story “Changes” by author Denise Oliver / Produced by WPFW, Broadcast on KPFA. This program features a reading of the short story “Changes” by author Denise Oliver, former program director for WPFW in Washington, DC. The story is about a young black woman who lived in a black neighborhood in Queens as…
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Author Alice Walker reads the short story, Roselily
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker (1944 – ) reads her short story “Roselily” (written ca. 1967). Walker then talks with KPFA’s Ginny Z. Berson about the story, how she wrote it about her first marriage to a civil rights attorney and how it questions the dominance of Christianity over all religions in the US. The…
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The Negro woman in American literature (Episode 2 of 12)
This program from the “Negro Writer’s Vision of America” conference held April 23-25, 1965 at New York’s New School is a discussion of the Negro woman in America and in American literature. Participants are poet Sarah Wright, playwright Alice Childress, singer and actress Abbey Lincoln, novelist Paule Marshall and poet Sterling A. Brown. This is…
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To create love with dry eyes: an interview with June Jordan by Deborah Morris.
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Changes / written and read by Denise Oliver.
This program features a reading of the short story “Changes” by author Denise Oliver, former program director for WPFW in Washington, DC. The story is about a young black woman who lived in a black neighborhood in Queens as a teenager and would hang out and later work in the Puerto Rican neighborhood of East…
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To be young, lesbian and Black in the ’50s / Audre Lorde ; produced by Helene Rosenbluth.
The writer Audre Lorde (1934 – 1992) describes her experiences growing up as a Black lesbian in New York City in the 1950s, touching on subjects such as frequenting gay and lesbian bars in the Greenwich Village and communal-style living experiments. She reads excerpts from her book, Zami: A new spelling of my name: a…