American Women — Women of Color and discrimination

  • Pacific Asian women poets / introduced by Joyce Nako

    Joyce Nako of Pacific Asian-American Women Writers-West introduces the following writers: Momoko Iko, novelist, poet and playwright whose “Gold watch” was aired on PBS’ “Visions” series; Emma Gee, who at UC Berkeley established the first course in the United States on Asian women at UC Berkeley and co-editor of Asian Women, the first collection of…

  • The Powerful Jew : myth or reality? / Lynn Kerman and Erica Silverman

    Ellen Willis wrote an article called “The myth of the powerful Jew,” which was published in a September 1979 edition of New York City’s free paper the Village Voice, as part of an ongoing debate on Black-Jewish relations appearing in that paper. KPFK’s Helene Rosenbluth and Anita Frankel read excerpts of the article in this…

  • So you’ve heard it before / produced by Susan Anderson and Pearl Skotnes.

    This is the story of South African Black women under apartheid, portrayed through women’s poetry, writing and music. Includes descriptions of the Sharpville Massacre and the Soweto Uprising, poetry by Susan Anderson and Zindzi Mandela, daughter of the banished Nomzamo Winnie Mandela and Nelson Mandela, ANC leader serving life prison sentence on Robben Island; excerpts…

  • A conversation with Ntozake Shange / interviewed by Clare Spark

    Ntozake Shange, the black feminist poet, author of “For colored girls who have considered suicide, when the rainbow is enuf,” is interviewed by Clare Spark on The Sour Apple Tree. Shange discusses reactions to her work and emphasizes how the poems are misperceived by many critics. Ends with a one-minute cut from the album of…

  • The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer.

    A short documentary on the life of Fannie Lou Hamer (1917 – 1977), leader of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Includes Hamer’s recollections about the early civil rights movement. Hamer speaks about her early exposure to voting rights and her conversion to the campaign for human rights, about her torture at the hands of Mississippi…

  • Coser y cantar / by Dolores Prida ; produced by Adina Back and Felipe Goroztiza

    Humorous radio drama about a day in the life of a bicultural women in the United States. Funded by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Satellite Program Development Fund of National Public Radio. Cast: Elizabeth Pena. Written, adapted for radio, and directed by Dolores Prida, and performed by Elizabeth Pena. Produced…

  • Hearings on discrimination in the military / Ron Dellums and Shirley Chisholm ; introduced by Danice Bordett.

    Press conference given by California Congressman Ron Dellums and New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm about the facts uncovered by the Congressional Committee exploring racism in the U.S. military. Same recording as BC0020.11.

  • Sexism and racism / Gloria Steinem and Margaret Sloan.

    Gloria Steinem and Margaret Sloan-Hunter, in a joint appearance at the Brooklyn Montessori School on May 15, 1973, address themselves to the relationship between sexism and racism. They discuss the white male-dominated media’s representation of the women’s liberation movement and black women’s position in feminist activism. They are introduced by State Senator Carol Bellamy. Technical…

  • Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto / Edith Millman ; interviewed by Mitchel Fox.

    Interview by Mitchell Joy with Warsaw Ghetto survivor, Edith Millman (?-2009). Mrs. Millman describes the establishment of the Warsaw ghetto when the Jews were forced from their homes, stripped of their possessions and taken away. Mrs. Millman describes life in the ghetto in detail. She offers an explanation as to why Jews didn’t resist. She…

  • The original people / Sagga Cook and Joan Hayes Garabedian (Episode 2 of 15)

    Sagga Cook (Mohawk Nation) and Joan Hayes Garabedian (Wampanoag-Cherokee) discuss their views of the beginning of the United States of America. BROADCAST: WBAI, 1975 and KPFA, May 8, 1975. Produced by WBAI as part of the Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness series.