Walker, Alice, 1944-

  • 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),…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The Velvet Sledgehammer: June 29, 1983

    Production reel for June 29, 1983 episode of The Velvet Sledgehammer, produced and hosted by Eileen Zalisk. Three parts: 1. “Nothing lights a fire like a dream deferred,” a series of dramatic readings on the feminist response to militarism, produced by Phaye Poliakoff & Adina Back. Blanche Jackson, Lizzie Olesker, Phaye Poliakoff and Cherise[sp?] Williams…

  • Democracy Now! April 30, 2003

    Hour 1: Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, Danny Glover, James Earl Jones and others read from Howard Zinn s A People s History of the United States : Part one of two-hour special commemorating the millionth copy of the classic book sold. Hour 2: Nuclear non-proliferation conference opens to discuss nuclear issues in the age of…

  • Democracy Now! April 30, 2003

    Alice Walker, Kurt Vonnegut, Danny Glover, James Earl Jones and others read from Howard Zinn s A People s History of the United States : Part one of two-hour special commemorating the millionth copy of the classic book sold. |8:00-8:01 Billboard 8:01-8:06 Headlines 8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break 8:07-8:20: It has become a classic work…

  • Democracy Now! May 1, 2003

    Hour 1: U.S.-backed Middle East peace plan released: A debate between Electronic Intifada and AIPAC; Vieques celebrates the US Navy s withdrawal from the Puerto Rican Island: Concerns grow over environmental cleanup after 50 years of military testing; To mark May Day, protests planned against oil companies, weapons manufacturers and at government buildings: We go…

  • Democracy Now! May 1, 2003

    A May Day special: Part II of our celebrity book reading of Howard Zinn s A People s History of the United States. Kurt Vonnegut reads Eugene Debs, Alfre Woodard reads Fanny Lou Hamer, James Earl Jones reads Malcolm X, Danny Glover reads Martin Luther King, Alice Walker reads Abbey Lincoln and more. |9:01-9:06 Headlines…

  • Democracy Now! October 16, 2002

    Iraq Journal: A rare visit to the birthplace of Saddam Hussein. Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill reports from Takrit; Sniper politics: Does the technology exist to find the D.C. sniper? The Bush Administration and the NRA are opposing ballistic fingerprinting legislation that would trace the bullet to the gun; The militarization of the police: The…

  • Democracy Now! March 10, 2003

    Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Medea Benjamin & 20 other women are arrested outside the White House: Thousands gather in Washington for Code Pink peace demonstration; Should President Bush be impeached? Progressive Congressional Democrats consider introducing articles of impeachment if the U.S. attacks Iraq; US & UK relied on forged document in making the case…