Majority report, May 13, 1982: Hansberry, Mother’s Day March, Studio W

Julia Randall and Ginny Z. Berson host Majority Report, May 13, 1982. Segments: 1. News wrap-up — 2. A birthday tribute to playwright Lorraine Hansberry produced by Ginny Z. Berson; includes audio from a performance of her play “A Raisin in the Sun” and an excerpt from a TV interview with Hansberry by Mike Wallace — 3. A report on Studio W, a new women’s gallery of film and art in the Bay Area, by KPFA’s Marci Lockwood; features an interview with the gallery’s founders, Holly Comstock and Sharon Medairy — 4. Paci Hammond and Adrienne Price report on the Children’s Walk for Disarmament in San Francisco, sponsored by the Mother’s Day Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and the Bay Area chapter of the Women’s Party for Survival, and on the women who physically blocked the Livermore Labs. The final segment, about the life and works of Gertrude Stein, is introduced but not included on PRA’s copy of the program. Executive producer Karla Tonella, theme music by Laurie Spiegel.