Browse the American Women collection
| Title | Description | Keywords | Genre |
PRA Archive # |
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| Labor fights for the ERA |
This episode of "Them and Us" is asking "Should labor unions support ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)?". Hosts are Carmen Delle Donne and Karen Boyd. Guests are Lizzie Corban, Sarah Nelson, and Susan Holleran. Includes live call-ins. Broadcast 1-19-78 Thursday, 7:00pm-8:00pm. |
Working classes -- United States., Equal Rights Amendment (Proposed)., Discrimination in employment -- United States., Radio call-in shows, Women labor unionists., Labor unions, Sex discrimination in employment, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), American Women -- Work and unions | WZ0002.02 | |
| Among all this, you stand like a fine brownstone : Gwendolyn Brooks / produced by Taliba Holliday. |
Poet Gwendolyn Brooks (1917 - 2000), the first Black woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1950, speaks with WPFW's Kathy Anderson and Angelo Gregory on location at Washington, D.C.'s Black Repertory Theatre, where a play based on her work entitled "Among All This, You Stand Like a Fine Brownstone" was being staged. Also includes an interview with Brooks by Grace Cavalieri conducted at WPFW, with Mike Hodge of the Black Repertory Theatre and Noble Lee Lester, who recites a soliloquy from the production. Brooks reads some of her poetry and comments on seeing her work dramatized, on being categorized as a "Black woman poet", and on the potentially creative uses of anger and hatred. Produced by Taliba Holliday, with associate producers Angelo Anthony and Grace Cavalieri. |
Women poets, Cavalieri, Grace, Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Anderson, Kathy, Gregory, Angelo, Lester, Noble Lee, African American women poets, D.C. Black Repertory Company | American Women -- Poetry, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination, American Women -- Theater | WZ0014 | You stand like a fine brownstone : Gwendolyn Brooks / produced by Ialita Holliday. (CD) |
| Changes / written and read by Denise Oliver. |
This program features a reading of the short story "Changes" by author Denise Oliver, former program director for WPFW in Washington, DC. The story is about a young black woman who lived in a black neighborhood in Queens as a teenager and would hang out and later work in the Puerto Rican neighborhood of East Harlem (El Barrio) New York. She finds herself in her early twenties teaching young kids and struggling with the fact that people don't recognize her as black. Her broken Spanish, light skin and straight hair hide her heritage. She falls in love with a young man who is recovering from drug addiction. Includes actuality and music. Produced by Robert Frazier, operations director of WPFW, and Sigidi Braudy, music director of WPFW. This recording is a duplicate of WZ0268. |
Women, Black., Women authors, Ghettoes., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Oliver, Denise, African American women authors, East Harlem (New York, N.Y.) | American Women -- Authors and journalists, American Women -- Women of Color and discrimination | WZ0019 | Changes / written and read by Denise Oliver. (CD) |
| Three women poets / Gabrielle Edgcomb, Barbara Lefcowitz, and Lee Howard |
This episode of The poet and the poem focuses on three women poets: Gabrielle Edgcomb (1926-1996), Barbara Lefcowitz (b. 1935), and Lee Howard (1952-2003) interviewed by Grace Cavalieri. Program features readings and discussion of political poetry and women poets. |
Political poetry., Women poets, Three women poets / Gabrielle Edgcomb, Barbara Lefcowitz, and Lee Howard ; interviewed by Grace Cavalieri., Edgcomb, Gabrielle Simon, Lefcowitz, Barbara F. (Barbara Freedgood), 1935-, Howard, Lee, 1952-2003, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | WZ0020 | |
| Back Alley Theatre / Naomi Eftes and Elaine Heffernan interviewed by Ree Austin |
Naomi Eftis and Elaine Heffernan, two local Washington, D. C. artists and housewives, discuss the creation of Back Alley Theatre, and delineate workable survival avenues for the struggling artist. Interview conducted by Ree Austin. Produced by Grace Cavalieri. |
Children's theater -- Washington, D.C., Back Alley Theatre (Organization : Washington, D.C.), Eftis, Naomi, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Art and artists, American Women -- Theater | WZ0027 | |
| Four women poets / Diana Vance, Nefretete, Deirdra Baldwin, and Ann Leffler ; interviewed by Grace Cavalieri |
Host Grace Cavalieri interviews four women poets: Diana Vance, Nefretete[sp?], Deirdra Baldwin, and Ann Leffler. The women read selections of their poetry and talk about being women poets and "women's" poetry. |
Poetry, Modern., Women poets / Diana Vance, Nefretete, Deirdra Baldwin, and Ann Leffler ; interviewed by Grace Cavalieri., Women poets, Slayton-Leffler, Ann, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Poetry | WZ0031 | |
| Of Woman Born by Adrienne Rich / reviewed by Doris Grumbach and Carolyn Kizer. |
Review of Adrienne Rich's book "Of Woman Born" by Doris Grumbach and Carolyn Kizer. This is the first episode of the WPFW series "Expressions". |
Books -- Reviews., Rich, Adrienne, 1929-2012, Grumbach, Doris, Kizer, Carolyn, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Authors and journalists | WZ0046 | |
| Harlan county USA / Nancy Barker and Hart Perry |
Barry Parker from WPFW's Film Exchange interviews Nancy Barker and Hart Perry, respectively the director of editing and principal cinematographer of Barbara Kopple's 1977 documentary Harlan County USA. The two discuss how they came to be involved in the film's production and about the scene in the film where strikebreakers attacked the film crew. |
American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Barker, Nancy, Perry, Hart, Documentary films, Coal Miners' Strike, Harlan County, Ky., 1973, Harlan County USA (Motion picture), Kopple, Barbara | American Women -- Work and unions, American Women -- Film and television | WZ0047 | Harlan county USA / Nancy Barker and Hart Perry (CD) |
| Four local Washington, D.C. poets / interviews by Hazel Robinson |
"A poet is -- a diary of the soul." Thus begins one of Hazel Robinson's poems and that thought is the theme of this program. Four local poets--Tamu Moore, Erskie Freeman, Mary Greer, and Hazel Robinson--read their poems and talk about how and why and when they write. |
Women poets, Four local Washington, D.C. poets / interviews by Grace Cavalieri., American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982, Greer, Mary K. (Mary Katherine), African American poets | American Women -- Poetry | WZ0049 | |
| A blind blues street singer / Flora Molton ; interviewed by Natalie Reuss. |
Interview with Flora Molton, blind blues street-singer of the Washington, D.C. area. Flora tells stories of her past, sings and plays slide guitar, and explains why she has chosen to be a performer of the street. Her band members include Ed Morris and Phil Wiggins. Natalie Reuss of Sophie's Parlor Media Collective conducts the interview. Produced by Sophie's Parlor Media Collective. |
Sophie's Parlor Media Collective., Street musicians., Musicians, Blind., Blues (Songs, etc.)., Women musicians., Molton, Flora, 1908-1990, American Women Making History and Culture: 1963-1982 | American Women -- Music and musicians | WZ0050 |