WBAI

  • Lorraine Hansberry: in her own words / produced by Theodore Rubin. (Episode 2 of 2)

    The first of a two-part documentary program celebrating the life of Black playwright Lorraine Hansberry (1930 – 1965). Hansberry was the author of the plays A Raisin in the Sun and The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, as well as several plays unfinished in her lifetime, such as Toussaint, The Arrival of Mr. Todog, The…

  • Hot flashes: women’s news from Majority Report (Series record)

    This is the series record “Hot Flashes,” women’s news from the Majority Report, broadcast on WBAI. Pacifica Radio Archives has five episodes, broadcast in 1977 and 1978.

  • Know your body (Series record)

    This is the program record for the series “Know Your Body,” a series of eight lectures which comprised a course by and for women also entitled “Know Your Body.” The course was given at the Women’s Medical Center in New York City, where this lecture was recorded for WBAI in May and June, 1972, by…

  • Report on the Congress to Unite Women

    This is a February 1985 rebroadcast of a November 1969 Womankind episode, hosted by Nannette Rainone. The episode is a rundown of events at the 1969 Congress to Unite Women held in New York on November 21-23, 1969. Guests are four women who were at the Congress: Shulamith Firestone (1945-2012), active in Women’s Liberation in…

  • Letters of a woman homesteader (Series title)

    Readings of letters written by a woman homesteader, Elinore Pruitt Stewart (1876-1933) in Wyoming from 1909-1913. The materials used in this program come from “Letters of a woman homesteader” by Elinore Pruitt Stewart, published by the Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. Elinore Stewart’s letters were copyrighted by herself and by Atlantic Monthly in 1913. The letters…

  • Women’s liberation and Black civil rights / Catharine R. Stimpson (Episode 1)

    Catharine R. Stimpson speaks on ‘Women’s liberation and Black Civil Rights.” Stimpson, a Literature professor from Barnard College, speaks about the relationship between the Women’s movement and the Black Civil Rights movement and possible tensions. Contains a very passionate question and answer period with well-known feminist theorists (although their identities are not obvious). Recorded in…

  • Black awareness (Series record)

    Black Awareness was a “Perspective” or “Commentary” series which aired on WBAI in New York in the early 1970s. The purpose of this series was to “enlighten, educate, inform, and even outrage the listening public by exposing the myths and lies that this country has invented to justify its oppression of African Americans.” First advertised…

  • Out of wedlock / produced by Celestine Ware (Part 2 of 2)

    Interviews with unmarried mothers and an examination of their problems and ideas.

  • SLA Cinque describes Patricia’s condition

    Report from “Cinque” (Donald DeFreeze), describing Patricia Hearst’s condition.

  • Rape: Susan Brownmiller, Diana Russell and Martha Shelley (Part 1 only)

    Susan Brownmiller, author of Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, and Diana Russell, author of The Politics of Rape: The Victim’s Perspective, are interviewed by Martha Shelley, member of the Feminist Press Collective, author of Crossing the DMV, and long-standing member of the Inez Garcia Defense Group. In this portion of the program, Brownmiller…