Our celebration of Women’s History Month continues in this episode of From the Vault with an all-female panel discussion held in conjunction with the national release tour for Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America, a new publication from City Lights Books and Pacifica Radio Archives. Redefining Black Power, edited by From the Vault collaborator and BBC Radio 5 Live host Joanne Griffith, addresses key issues for Black America – mass incarceration, media portrayal, the role of black leadership, democratic participation and economic disparity – by revisiting Pacifica Radio’s classic Civil Rights and Black Power recordings of W.E.B Dubois, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Audre Lourde as context for a new conversation on the state of Black America with contemporary educators, activists, and philosophers. The Brecht Forum in New York City hosted this February 2012 panel on “Women and Media in the Age of Obama,†with guests including author, playwright. and WBAI host Esther Armah, writer and cultural critic Michaela Angela Davis, and author and journalist Akiba Solomon.
From the Vault is presented through the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project, funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, past grants from the Grammy Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the American Archive funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, along with the generous support of Pacifica Radio listeners.
First broadcast on Friday, March 9, 2012.
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