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This episode of Upstream is on the National Association of Colored Women's (and Girls') Clubs, Inc. (NACWC) and includes interviews with several members of the organization. The guests are Otelia Champion, President of the NACWC; Samella Burton, President of the Northeastern Federation of the NACWC; Delia H. Martin, NACWC delegate for New Jersey and Legislative and Resolution Chairperson for the conference taking place that week; and Ernestine Taylor, Treasurer of the Northeastern Federation of the NACWC. Very beginning of program is cut off. Produced by Nikki Jeter.

Interview with Stephanie Colbert Hopkins, president of Star Step, Inc, a public relations firm. Hopkins, a Black small business owner, discusses her professional and personal successes, the current job market for Black people, and the double stigma she faces as a business owner of being both Black and a woman. Contains listener phone calls. Hosted and produced by Marie Smith. Intro of host and guest cut off at beginning. The month's theme for Upstream was Black Women of Achievement.

Joan Thornell interviews Ntozake Shange (1948 - ), poet and playwright, and Thulani Davis (1949 - ), playwright, librettist, and teacher of English at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D.C. for her "Another Perspective" series on the types and development of Black music. Topics discussed include Stevie Wonder, Motown, jazz, the blues, and the differences between poetry and music scenes in certain cities. Many of their insights on music have direct applications to other aspects of American society. Produced at WPFW, Washington, D.C., 1977. Contains sensitive language.

A documentary that looks at the development of ideas that shaped the radical women's movement, mainly focusing on the movement in the 1970s. Includes bits of movie soundtracks, speeches and interviews with the women who made history. Topics covered in the program are women and labor unions in the early 20th century, the return to the home after WWII, women in the civil rights movement, the New Left and the beginning of the autonomous women's movement, the formation of women's liberation groups, the emergence of radical lesbian groups such as the Furies, the United Nations International Women's Year Conference of 1977, feminist health clinics and other women's centers, organizing women household workers, grand jury investigations of members of the women's movement, racism within the women's movement. Among those voices heard are Alix Kates Shulman, Fannie Lou Hamer, Leslie Cagan, Cynthia Funk, Joan Byron, Betty Friedan, Carol Downer, Gerri Traina, Edith Barksdale Sloan, Jill Raymond, Donna Keck, and Cynthia Washington. Produced by Moira Rankin and Deborah George. A presentation of the Sophie's Parlor Media Collective.