KPFA Women's Magazine presents an hour of Black women's music and history featuring Minnie Memphis, Josephine Baker and more. Today's show is hosted by Safi wa Nairobi. Listen now (59:50 min) and stay tuned for a special guest interview with Jenny Scheinman who will be appearing tonight, June 4th at the Freight and Salvage.
Safi Wa Nairobi kicks off Black History Month with a special program on KPFA Women's Magazine featuring Black arts, historical perspective, Black legacy, theater, music and more. Hear Jessica Care Moore read her poetry, Elaine Brown talk about activism today and the Black Panther Party, an interview with educator, writer and former editor-in-chief of the Black Panther News Judy Juanita, and Ayodele Nzinga, director, poet and founder of Lower Bottom Playaz talk about the theater and BAMBD FEST going on all month. Happy Birthday to Rosa Parks, the First Lady of Civil Rights.
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Thank you for your pledge during KPFA Women's Magazine on Monday, March 5th. If you missed the show on Monday you can catch this excellent interview with Betty Reid Soskin. This amazing yet humble 96 year old woman has a lot to share stories about her own life and "living in the future that [she] helped to create." Listen now to this powerful voice. Click here to listen to the entire show. 1:02:49 min
Kate and Sharon offer a special program featuring Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest National Park Ranger. Soskin works at the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Park in Richmond, CA where she plays a vital role in bringing her personal experience as an African-American woman working in a segregated environment during WWII and beyond. Don't miss it!
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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.
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.
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.
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Daisy Bates speaks during the Aug. 23, 1963, March on Washington. Bates, mentor to the Little Rock Nine, was the only woman to speak at the event 50 years ago in which the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic “I Have a Dream” speech. Source Times Record: Online Edition In the first part of our show today we’ll listen to a fascinating history put together by Fran Luck of WBAI’s Joy of Resistance for Sprouts, a national weekly program. Luck tells the story of how black women activists, frustrated by being shut out of the 1963 March on Washington, led the charge to form the National Organization for Women. Then Dr. Marcia Chatelain, author of South Side Girls: Growing Up in the Great Migration, discusses the construction of Black girlhood in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century, and what it tells us about the intersections of race and gender. She also talks about Black Lives Matter, why it’s rewriting 2016 and why it’s important that so many of its leaders are women. Listen now. 59:50 min.
A small-town girl who grew into a big-city woman. I’m unapologetically passionate, and (for better or worse) always on a journey to be smarter, better, and more fly.
I’ve been addicted to writing ever since I learned how to scrawl my name in crayon back in the day. It’s been the easiest way for me to express myself throughout my life, but this blog is the first time I’ve been so open with my thoughts.
Bridget “Bee” Quammie is a healthcare professional, blogger, freelance writer, social media manager, and speaker. With a degree in Health Sciences from the University of Western Ontario and Post-Graduate Certificate in Health Promotion from George Brown College, Bee has turned her passion for health into a career in mental health research, international health, and acquired brain injury work.
Bee started her personal blog, ‘83 To Infinity, in 2011. Focusing on areas around natural hair care, health & wellness, art & culture and more, ‘83 To Infinity has offered her the opportunity to write for digital publications such as Chatelaine, UPTOWN Magazine, For Harriet and The Huffington Post Canada. Bee was recently recognized by Black Enterprise as one of the “most impactful and successful voices in the online space,” is a 2013 Canadian Weblog Award nominee, and was the recipient of the Best Blogger Award at the 2014 Black Canadians Awards. After the birth of her daughter in 2014, Bee founded The Brown Suga Mama, a blog focused on motherhood from the perspective of a Black Canadian mom.
Bee has also taken her thoughts, words, and knowledge from behind the computer screen. She has been featured on Arise TV’s Our Take in New York City discussing international healthcare, and twice on TVO’s The Agenda With Steve Paikin, speaking on education & employment options for Canadian millennials and the presence of women in media. Her social media knowledge has enabled her to work with a variety of clientele to help maximize their digital presence, with great success. She was a speaker at the 2013 Blogging While Brown Conference, 2013 Toronto Natural Hair & Beauty Show, and at the 2013 Malvern Women’s Symposium, discussing global blogging, online resources for natural haircare, and personal branding through social media, respectfully. She also facilitates health and wellness workshops through the Have Faith In Healthy Living project funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health.
’83 To Infinity’s motto is: “It’s never too late to learn something new, do something new, or be someone new,” and Bee uses her work to inspire and motivate others to embrace life’s journeys.
We pay tribute to the Power of African American Women of the Civil Rights era. While we mourn the death of black bodies killed by police we remember how our foremothers also experienced police violence and stood up against the horror of racism. For fund drive we offer a historical audio package of the voices of powerful women activists of the 60s like Rosa Parks, speaking out about her arrest, Fannie Lou Hammer talking about her surviving police brutality and her pursuit for justice against her assailants, and Corretta Scott King speaking out three weeks after Dr. King's assassination; just three of the amazing voices of our foremothers available to you on a 3 CD or 9 CD MP3 collection.
Click here to listen to entire show that also features an interview with Nell Myhand and Zanne Joi who talk about Marissa Alexander's unjust conviction for defending herself against her batterer. She is serving a 60 year sentence for an indictment for which she has not been convicted. Come to an teach in and direct action planning to free Marissa on Sunday December 14 from 1-4 at the Berkeley Public Library, 2090 Kitteridge in the meeting room on the 3rd floor. For more info phone 510-543-5280 or email freemarissaeastbay@gmail.org. 59:50 min.
As we reflect on the last week's horrific events in Ferguson, Missouri, it's hard to imagine that anyone in this country cannot be moved by images of Black people with their hands up shouting, "Hands up. Don't shoot" as police with long guns stare down at them from armoured trucks. USA Today notes that local police killed an average of 2 Black people every week from 2005 to 2012. Even more upsetting are the accounts of Black women and girls who have been killed by police as recounted by Khadijah Costley White in her excellent piece entitled Black and Unarmed: Women and Girls Without Weapons Killed by Law Enforcement. We need to stop talking about these killings as police misconduct and begin recognizing them as state sponsored lynchings, not a justice system gone awry but disturbed deep inner workings. Until we do there will be no justice, no democracy and no peace.
Black feminist Ida B. Wells started the nation's most prominent anti-lynching campaign in 1893. Ida B. Wells knew and worked with white feminist Susan B. Anthony but was unsucessful in getting her to work on anti-lynching. Wells advocated a panoply of direct and indirect action strategies including boycott, moral suasion, advocacy journalism, immigration, and armed self-defense. She talked about gender and sexuality.
“What is remarkable about these articles is their resonance on our contemporary political landscape.”
“Published during the last decade of the twentieth century, these columns remind me just how much June Jordan’s formidable voice is missed today. She was a poet, but also equally a journalist, and no ordinary journalist, for her illuminating accounts of ongoing events were always infused with her unique poetic vision.”
Women's Magazine speaks to Sara Lazar of Commondreams.org about Chelsea Manning's plans to transition and the military's response: "we don't do that..."
It's long been said that there were no women invited to speak at the March on Washington. One woman was invited, however: Myrlie Evers, widow of Medger Evers. When Ms. Evers could not attend, Daisy Bates, a leader in the Arkansas NAACP and of the Little Rock school desegregation, was asked to speak instead. Ms. Bates spoke briefly during a "Tribute to Women," as part of which A. Philip Randolph read a poem while women leaders sat on the podium.
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Dorothy Height and other prominent women in the civil rights movement wanted a woman among the nine main speakers at the event, and this is what the male leadership refused.
We listen to interviews with Ms. Height, part of Ms. Bates' speech, and an interview with Barbara Ransby, author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision.
California prisoners have been on hunger strike for seven weeks to end solitary confinement. To find out how to pressure Governor Brown check out www.prisonhungerstrikesolidarity.wordpress.com
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Sharon Sobotta hosted and produced today's show with a journalism class from St. Mary's College. This is a broad spectrum hour that talks about violence against women, restorative justice, Black History Month, and wholistic changes in the world today. Many amazing women participate in this Women's Magazine, including Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest National Park Ranger; Latoya Peterson from Racialicious; Julia Barboza and Leticia Brea from Bayview Hunters Point Foundation; Erin Baker, director of Heartbeat of a Planet; an interview with New Delhi native Roos Pal, Sujatha Baliga, Director of the Restorative Justice Project in Oakland, and Justa Gutierrez, the founder of an up and coming social justice website called 'likeyoumeanit.com. 1 hour.
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