Monday, March 4, 2019: The Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry

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March 4 is the last Women's Magazine show during this fund drive.  Lisa Dettmer speaks with author and scholar Imani Perry about her brand new book, Looking for Lorraine: the
Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, which makes use of recently released papers that fill in much of what's been hidden about Hansberry's life, including her Communist party and lesbian writings.

Click here to listen to the show. 59:50 min

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Events:

Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
7:00 pm-9:00 pm, Friday, March 8
Mills Hall Living Room
Professor Imani Perry will be joining the Mills College and wider Oakland and Bay Area communities to discuss the life of the late Lorraine Hansberry from her book, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry. Professor Perry is an American interdisciplinary scholar of race, law, literature, and African American culture. She is currently the Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University.

KPFA Women will also be bringing you 18 hours of International Women's Day programming on Saturday, March 9, from 6:00 am to 12:00 midnight.  Live music, interviews, features, speeches by Angela Davis and others, sound from the Women's Climate Summit.  The full schedule is available now on Facebook.  From 2:00-3:15 pm, Kate Raphael will be curating a show on Socialist Feminism, including a lookback at the first National Socialist Feminist Conference held in 1975 in Yellow Springs, Ohio.

Don't miss it!

And finally, on Tuesday, March 5, at 6:45 pm we'll present She's Beautiful When She's Angry, Mary Dore's documentary about the Second Wave women's movement, at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland.  Details.

Thanks so much for all your support, and Happy International Women's Day.