black history month
Posted in Uncategorized by slappy on February 21st, 2010
dear friends,
in honor of Black History Month it’s our pleasure to present this week recordings of African-American spoken word artists and other speakers from practically the beginning of recorded sound all the way up to the present day.
some of the voices on this show belong to: June Jordan, Shafiq, W.E.B. DuBois, Claude McKay, Lucille Clifton, Gil Scott-Heron, Rita Dove, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, Maya Angelou, Saul Williams, Carl Hancock Rux, and Ntozake Shange. interspersed with their work you will find oral history recordings taken in Chicago in the early 1980s by Studs Terkel, as he prepared his epic work of ethnography and history on the subject of race in America. enJoy,
slappy