Monday, April 16, 2018: Jovelyn Richards hosts The Space Between Us

Jovelyn Richards host of Women's Magazine: The Space Between Us talks with Dr. Charlene M. Brown.  Dr. Brown reveals her research title: FILLING THE GAP: HOW BLACK ADOLESCENT GIRLS DEFINE THEIR IDENTITIES USING A MULTIPLE CASE STUDY APPROACH. Dr. Brown asks Black girls/women how they feel about themselves in terms of class, color, and personal stories. For more information or to get in touch with Dr. Brown you can email her at CharleneBrownM@gmail.com.

Milka Rose, an African American Student and her high school mentor Kimberly Turner also join the conversation. Listen to the voices of young women moving off into the world.

The Space Between Us airs the third Monday of each month at 1 PM. It is a live, call-in show.

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

Friday, March 30, 2018: Women's History Month Special

Safi Wa Nairobi host of KPFA's B.A.J.A.B.A. on JaZzLine brings us this special program on Women, Blues, and Jazz in celebration of Women's History Month.

Today's program airs a recording of a panel discussion on Gender and Jazz from the 2018 Inaugural Jazz Congress in New York.  Moderator is Michele Mercer (NPR) and Panelists include Terri Lyne Carrington (Berklee College of Music), Ingrid Jensen, John Murph, Ellen Seeling (Montclair Big Band). Also included is a reading of Ain't I a Woman.

Click here to listen to the show. 1:13:23

Monday, February 6, 2017: Hidden Figures

Women's Magazine kicks off Black History month by celebrating unsung Black women sheroes. We listen to an interview with Margot Lee Shetterly, author of the book HIDDEN FIGURES, the basis for the hit movie about Black women mathematicians who worked in the space program.

You've heard the names John Glenn, Alan Shepard and Neil Armstrong. What about Katherine Johnson, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, Kathryn Peddrew, Sue Wilder, Eunice Smith or Barbara Holley? Most Americans have no idea that from the 1940s through the 1960s, a cadre of African-American women formed part of the country’s space work force, or that this group—mathematical ground troops in the Cold War—helped provide NASA with the raw computing power it needed to dominate the heavens.

HIDDEN FIGURES: THE AMERICAN DREAM AND THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE BLACK WOMEN MATHEMATICIANS WHO HELPED WIN THE SPACE RACE recovers the history of these pioneering women and situates it in the intersection of the defining movements of the American century: the Cold War, the Space Race, the Civil Rights movement and the quest for gender equality.

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Also on today's show:
Pauli Murray
When Abortion Was Illegal

Monday, February 6, 2017: Pauli Murray

In this segment we talk with Barbara Lau, director of the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice about the life and legacy of Pauli Murray, whose legal research led to a groundbreaking gender equality case argued in the Supreme Court by Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Murray was close with Eleanor Roosevelt and one of the founders of the National Organization for Women.

This segment was also aired last March. Listen now. 31:16 min

Barbara Lau connects her commitment to justice with her belief in the power of community organizing. She is also the lead developer of the Pauli Murray Center for History and Social Justice, a newly formed non-profit organization focused on transforming Murray’s childhood home into a center for history, education, the arts and social mobilization. Lau’s 20 years experience as a folklorist, curator, radio producer, and author includes producing To Buy the Sun, an original play about Pauli Murray; directing the Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life community mural project; and curating two major exhibitions about Cambodian American traditions.



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

Also on today's show:
Hidden Figures
When Abortion Was Illegal

Monday, March 28, 2016: Two Views of Sex Discrimination--Pauli Murray (1910-1985)

Pauli Murray, courtesy Wikimedia

We look at the life and legacy of Black feminist, legal scholar, civil rights activist, lesbian and Episcopal priest Pauli Murray. Murray cofounded the National Organization for Women and the Congress on Racial Equality and her research was credited by Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a groundbreaking sex discrimination case.  She was gender nonconforming and had long-term same-sex relationships, and was the first African American woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest. Why is so little known about her?

We talk with Barbara Lau, director of the Pauli Murray Project at the Duke Human Rights Center of the Franklin Humanities Institute.

Listen now or Get MP3. 31:16  min






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Also on today's show:
Selma James

Kevin Vance Benefit

Featuring: Maurice Tani, Blame Sally, Stephen Kent and Eric & Suzy Thompson

WHEN: APRIL 9, 2016 @ DOORS 7 PM - SHOW 8 PM

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