American Women — Women of Color and discrimination

  • 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…

  • People’s law update: Lennox Hinds interviewed by Bob Lefcourt

    Bob Lefcourt speaks with attorney Lennox Hinds from the School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers University in New Jersey, second president of the National Conference of Black Lawyers. Discussion on trial of Assata Shakur, who was kept in solitary confinement for two years before her trial in New Jersey. Hinds was summoned from the Bar…

  • Yom HaShoah service commemorating the Holocaust

    Women’s resistance in the Holocaust, a special program to mark Holocaust Remembrance day. Irena Klepfisz, Melanie Kaye and other women gather at Woman Books on April 21, 1982 to commemorate Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and the 39th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Broadcast on April 20, 1983.

  • Women and the world in the 1980s – August 8, 1983: Interview with Kitty Tsui

    Blanche Wiesen Cook interviews Chinese-American lesbian poet Kitty Tsui (b. 1952), who was born in Hong Kong, moved to the U.K. at the age of 5, and later came to the United States. Recorded on August 8, 1983. Broadcast on August 8, 1983. Previously cataloged as IZ0478.

  • Sojourner’s Journal: The role of the Black woman worker

    The role of the Black woman worker. An episode of Sojournour’s Journal produced by Yasmine Pierre. Date unknown. Yasmine Pierre interviews Rosemary Mealy of the Empire State Labor College and journalist Esther Curry about the history of Black women’s work in America.

  • The poet’s craft / June Jordan ; interviewed by Elly Bulkin.

    Interview with poet and author June Jordan (1936 – 2002) conducted by Elly Bulkin. They discuss Jordan’s third book of poetry, New Days: Poems of Exile and Return, which was just recently published. Jordan talks about how the poetry and novels all come from the same sense of urgency on her part to speak not…

  • Herbert Marcuse and Angela Davis at Berkeley

    Excerpt from a rally at University of California Berkeley featuring speeches by philosopher and political theorist Herbert Marcuse (1898 – 1979) and political activist and scholar Angela Davis (1944 – ). The rally was in support of Davis whose appointment to the faculty of U.C. Berkeley was challenged by the University of California Board of…

  • 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…

  • Lives and times of some famous and not-so-famous Black personalities / produced by Gene De Alessi.

    An audio history featuring the lives and times of some famous and not-so-famous black people. This program presents the stories of the following people: Pedro Alonzo Nino, Kid Steve Esteban, Phyllis Wheatley, Jupiter Hammon, Gustavas Vassa (aka Olaudah Equiano), Benjamin Banneker, James Derham, Crispus Attucks, Peter Salem, Salem Poore, Black Sampson, Tack Sisson, Pompey, Nat…

  • Angela’s birthday.

    A panel discussion about Angela Davis (1944 – ) and her contributions to American society. The discussion centers around the furor over Davis’ hiring at UCLA; the UC Regents had stripped her of her title owing to her political beliefs. Panelists includes Victor Wolfenstein, Professor of Political Science at UCLA and co-chairman of the Staff…