Davis, Ossie, 1917-2005

  • From the Vault: Season 8 (2013)

    Item: 4 GB Jump Drive / MP3 format audio files Running time: 42 hours   This exclusive collection consists of the most recent episodes of Pacifica Radio Archives’ weekly national radio program From the Vault, which explores a wide range of American history through painstakingly restored audio recordings dating back to the dawn of community…

  • Democracy Now! October 22, 1998

    A Great and Mighty Walk–The Life and Work of John Henrik Clarke–Part I; Stolen Lives: A National Day Against Police Brutality |(33 Minutes) A Great and Mighty Walk–The Life and Work of John Henrik Clarke A recent documentary by filmaker St. Clair Bourne called John Henrik Clarke: A Great and Mighty Walk offers a rare…

  • Democracy Now!

    Headlines; Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis; Impeachment; Judge Leon Higginbotham |(5 Minutes) Headlines President Clinton met this morning with his National Security Council to discuss a report that Iraq is not cooperating with UN weapons inspectors. Administration officials said today that US forces remain poised for a military attack against Iraq, and could strike at…

  • Memorial for Malcolm X / produced by Ken Wibecan

    On the life and work of the slain Black leader. This memorial meeting was held in Rockland Palace in New York City on May 26, 1965. The speakers were Sylvester Leeks; J. D. Sokoya from the Nigerian Mission to the United Nations; Doris Turner, vice president of Local 1199 of the Hospital Workers and Drug…

  • Bob Kaufman, poet : the life and times of an African-American man / written and produced by David Henderson ; narrated by Al Young.

    Documentary from interviews and old recordings which examines the life and work of Bob Kaufman. His life is reconstructed through interviews with scholars, family members and acquaintances. His work is viewed not only politically, but also metaphysically and psychologially. Includes discussion of his battles with alcohol, drug addiction, brutal beatings by police, jailings, shock treatments…

  • A Tribute to Julio Alvarez del Vayo / recorded by David Lavine.

    Memorial tribute to the Spanish Republic’s foreign minister during the Spanish Civil War, with Barbara Tuchman, author; Ossie Davis, playwright; Ring Lardner, Jr., author; Steve Nelson, Abraham Lincoln brigade commander; Diego del Vayo, Julio’s son.

  • The Confessions of Nat Turner William Styron.

    James Baldwin and Ossie Davis questions Styron about his biography of Turner. Includes statements by Comedian Carl Reiner.|THE CONFESSIONS OF NAT TURNER / by William Styron. – James Baldwin and Ossie Davis question Styron about his biography of the Black activist Nat Turner. Includes statements by comedian Carl Reiner. – RECORDED: 28 May 1968. BROADCAST:…

  • Telling it like it is / interviews by Frank Greenwood.

    Interviews exploring the Black experience in American history. |r.1. Ossie Davis and Louis Merriweather on The Confessions of Nat Turner (61 min.) — Blase Bonpane (60 min.) — r.3. Musical review (50 min.) — r.4. Frank Greenwood (62 min.).

  • The Wonderful world of law and order

    Actor-playwright Ossie Davis at the conference “The Negro writer in the United States,” sponsored by the University of California Extension school. Davis reads from his play “Purlie Victorious” and discusses race relations in the United States and his use of literature to better the situation in a speech that he will later publish as “The…