American Women — Women of Color and discrimination
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Blacks and the Washington D.C. ballet / Claire Haywood; interviewed by Naomi Eftis and Elaine Heffernan.
Hosts Naomi Eftis and Elaine Heffernan interview Claire Haywood (d. 1978), artistic director of the Capitol Ballet Company, and co-founder, with Doris Jones, of the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet. The Jones-Haywood school, was founded in 1941 to give minority children an opportunity to study classical ballet at a time when opportunities were limited for African-American…
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Among all this, you stand like a fine brownstone : Gwendolyn Brooks / produced by Taliba Holliday.
Poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 – 2000), the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950, speaks with WPFW’s Kathy Anderson and Angelo Gregory on location at Washington, D.C.’s Black Repertory Theatre, where a play based on her work entitled “Among All This, You Stand Like a Fine Brownstone” was being staged.…
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Discrimination at work: federal workers and equal opportunity
On whether the federal government has successfully implemented its own equal opportunity program. Discussion by Roy Johnson, President of Government Employees United Against Racial Descrimination, and Roberto Tobias, General Council of the National Treasury Employees Union, and Mary Jo Binder, Federal Women’s Program Coordinator, U.S. Treasury Department. This program was produced by Rob Berlidge[sp?] and…
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Interview with Mary Kahlenberg, co-organizer of the Navajo blanket exhibition at the Rice Gallery