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Interview with Francis Mitchell
Call Number: SS 023Format: CassetteProducers: Sue SuprianoCollection: Sue Supriano Interviews and Programs
Interview with Francis Mitchell, an African American press photographer for SNCC in 1960's, and an organizer against racism in US military in 1940's.
AIDS in Focus: Women of Color with AIDS
Call Number: JG/ 071Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: AIDS in FocusCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
This is a short recording from the Care Fair for women of color with AIDS. Black women are one of the fastest growing population of those contracting AIDS. At the time of this recording, however, much of the research on HIV and AIDS was done on men, so the differences in symptoms and signs had not been discovered. There is an interview with Dayson Dixon, a Black women living with AIDS and she speaks about the lack of services available for those with AIDS and their families. She echoes the concern that there needs to be more research done on how HIV and AIDS affects women and especially Black women. Janet Cleveland, a copy editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution speaks as well.
Focus on Race in Black History Month
Date: 2/2/1996Call Number: JG/ 097Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberProgram: A Defiant HeartCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Focus on Race in Black History Month. Interview with Charlene Kotherine, publisher of 'Venus' magazine and an activist in the African American Gay community in Atlanta, GA. Kotherine discuses the recent rally of gay and lesbian blacks in honor of Bayard Rustin at the Atlanta Martin Luther King celebrations, done in hopes of raising visibility for the movement and educating the larger black community about black gays and lesbians. She notes
a recent more positive reception towards the gay community as a whole in Atlanta and increasing numbers of black gays and lesbians who have come out in the past five years. Kotherine believes nonetheless that coming out still unfortunately remains a privlidge of high economic status for blacks. She notes the need for a separate black gay and lesbian movement outside the mainstream gay and lesbian movement in Atlanta because of unique race concerns and the black need for acceptance from within the power bases of their community which has thus far been hesitant to accept them. She notes the steps forward that black gays and lesbians have made at organizing over the past year, including organizing a black gay pride parade.
Black and New Afrikan Political Prisoners
Date: 11/29/1991Call Number: PM 251Format: CassetteProducers: Prison RadioProgram: You Can’t Jail The Spirit #3Collection: New Afrikan Prisoners
About the Black political repression, exile, incarceration, and the criminal justice system's interference with political resistance through a discussion of the lives of Mumia Abu Jamal, Assata Shakur, and Geronimo Pratt. Soffiyah Elijah, Dr. Mutulu Shakur, and Kiilu Nyasha, discuss the criminalization of revolutionaries and the future of radical organizing.
1998 Essence Empowerment Series: Keynote Speaker, Randal Robinson
Keynote speaker Randall Robinson speaks about his long history of activism including protest of Ronald Reagan's involvement with apartheid and a hunger strike against US control of Haiti. Robinson's main emphasis is about how the history of Africa and Africans in America dictates that it is up to Blacks to demand what they deserve and the importance of knowing one’s own history. Robinson describes that schools teach that the Greeks are the beginning of civilization and provides contradictory evidence that a majority of ancient Greek technology was discovered by ancient Africans and passed on to Greeks. The speech ends with Robinson explaining the unjust ways American capitalism ravages Africa.
SWAPO: South West Africa People’s Organization
El Salvadoran and South African solidarity with SWAPO (Southwest African People’s Organization), support for national independence movement, opposing US imperialism’s intervention in Namibia.
Carlos Martinez representing the movement in El Salvador and Ahmed Obafemi representing the Republic of New Africa (RNA).
recorded off bullhorn at a demonstration in New York.
Malcolm X Compilation
Malcolm X's collection of Famous Speeches during 1962-1965. Side 1: You're Gonna Catch Hell, American Nightmare, We Want to Collect on Our Investment, Field Negro, Question your tactics… Side 2: This is the Era of Revolution, By Any Means, Guerilla Warfare, Negro's Coming up, House Negro, Truth, Chickens and Duck Egg, Epilogue, I'm the Man.
Dick Gregory @ KPFA
Date: 6/15/1985Call Number: CV 017Format: CassetteProducers: KPFAProgram: KPFACollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Comedian and social activist Dick Gregory delivers a speech for KPFA Radio covering a range of topics from hunger and economic inequality to nutrition and organization.
Interview with Linn Washington
Date: 1/1/1982Call Number: JG/ 116Format: CassetteProducers: Judy GerberCollection: Programs produced by Judy Gerber and Laurie Simms
Linn Washington, executive editor of the Philadelphia Observer and author of the book “Black Judges on Justice” describes the vast misrepresentation of long time colleague and friend Mumia Abu-Jamal during his trial, as well as the irregularities of evidence held against him.
Youth - an endangered species
A workshop in Birmingham, Alabama about the incarceration of Black and Latino youth. Discusses gang violence. Participants explain that youth need to reconnect with their culture which has been lost through mass imprisonment.
