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House/Full of Black Women
From The Kitchen Sisters | 53:27
For some eight years now, 34 Black women from the Bay Area — artists, scholars, midwives, nurses, an architect, an ice cream maker, a donut maker, a theater director, a choreographer, musicians, educators, sex trafficking abolitionists and survivors have gathered monthly around a big dining room table in Oakland, California. Meeting, cooking, dancing, strategizing — grappling with the issues of eviction, gentrification, well-being and sex trafficking that are staring down their community, staring down Black women in America.
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Welcome to House/Full of Black Women, a new hour-long special from The Kitchen Sisters, Ellen Sebastian Chang, Sital Muktari & PRX.
For some eight years now, 34 Black women from the Bay Area — artists, scholars, midwives, nurses, an architect, an ice cream maker, a donut maker, a theater director, a choreographer, musicians, educators, sex trafficking abolitionists and survivors have gathered monthly around a big dining room table in Oakland, California. Meeting, cooking, dancing, strategizing — grappling with the issues of eviction, gentrification, well-being and sex trafficking that are staring down their community, staring down Black women in America.
Across these years House/Full has created a series of performances and activations — street processions, street interventions, all-night song circles, historical narratives, parking lot ceremonies, rituals of resting and dreaming.
This House/Full Radio Special was inspired by the House/Full of BlackWomen project conceived and choreographed by Amara Tabor-Smith and co-directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang and an evolving collective of Black women artists and features interviews with sex trafficking abolitionists, personal stories of growing up in the Bay Area, music, Black women dreaming, resisting, insisting.
With Support From: The Creative Work Fund, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Kaleta Doolin Foundation, The Texas Women’s Foundation, Susan Sillins, listener contributions to The Kitchen Sisters Productions & PRX.
House/Full of Black Women is part of The Keepers series produced by The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson & Nikki Silva) in collaboration with Brandi Howell and Nathan Dalton and mixed by Jim McKee.
House/Full of Black Women. Pull up a chair. Take a listen.
The Sound of 13 (Series)
Produced by KVNO
Host Garrett McQueen opens an historical and contemporary conversation of race in a 13-week classical music series with the 13th amendment as the guide.
Most recent piece in this series:
Sound of 13 22-13
From KVNO | Part of the The Sound of 13 series | 58:02
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EPISODE 13 Joseph Bologne Chevalier de Saint-Georges - “Presto” from Symphony No. 2 Versailles Chamber Orchestra, Bernard Wahl Saint-Georges: Concerto No. 2/Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2 Arion 2009 4’19’’ Gabriela Lena Frank - “Coqueteos” Sphinx Virtuosi, Damon Gupton Sphinx Virtuosi Live in Concert Self Produced, 2011 3’56’’ Valerie Coleman - Tzigane Imani Winds Startin’ Sumthin’ eOne 2016 10’14’’ Ludovic Lamothe - Danza No. 1 in C Charles P. Phillips, piano A Vision of Ludovic Lamothe IFA 2001 7’00’’ Samuel Coleridge Taylor - Nonet in f minor John Fadial, violin Janet Orenstein, violin Scott Rawls, viola Brooks Whitehouse, cello Mary Ashley Barret, oboe Kelly Burke, clarinet Lynn Huntzinger Beck, horn Michael Burns, bassoon Andrew Harley, piano Samuel Coleridge Taylor: Chamber Music Centaur 2004 25’54’’
REPLAY Celebrating American Freedom (hour/no bb or bed)
From With Good Reason | Part of the With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes series | 52:00
In 2019, Virginia joined just three other states in making Juneteenth a paid state holiday, recognizing it as a holiday for all Virginians.
In 2019, Virginia joined just three other states in making Juneteenth a paid state holiday, recognizing it as a holiday for all Virginians. Lauranett Lee says in this country we have parallel histories, with Black and white Americans knowing about and acknowledging different pasts. But community efforts and local activists are elevating the stories of African Americans so that those parallel histories are brought together. One of those local historians is Wilma Jones, who grew up in the mostly Black community of Halls Hill in Arlington, Virginia. Now the neighborhood is rapidly gentrifying and Black families like hers have been pushed out. Today, Jones says it’s too late to save Grandma’s house, but it’s not too late to save her history.
Later in the show: Much has been said about the golden age of gospel in the 1940s and 50s. But what about the gospel music that came later when hip-hop and soul were dominant? Claudrena Harold’s in her book, When Sunday Comes, takes us to the Black record shops, churches, and businesses that transformed gospel after the Civil Rights era and nurtured the music that was an essential cultural and political expression for African Americans.
The Living on Earth Juneteenth Special
From Living On Earth | Part of the Living on Earth Specials series | 59:00
Free to non-carrying stations: Living on Earth presents a one-hour, eco-justice special honoring Juneteenth, the annual holiday commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. The special features stories of African foodways, redlining and environmental justice, and black farmers practicing liberation on the land.
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The Juneteenth Jazz Jamboree
From WFIU | Part of the Night Lights Classic Jazz: Specials series | 59:00
An hour-long program of classic jazz, celebrating an American holiday marking the formal end of slavery.
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"The Juneteenth Jazz Jamboree" is a musical and historical celebration of a significant African-American holiday that marks the formal end of slavery and has evolved into a tradition of food, games, music, and remembrance of ancestors. The program includes freedom-related jazz from John Coltrane, Louis Jordan, Max Roach with Abbey Lincoln, Paul Robeson with Count Basie, Charles Lloyd, Carmen McRae and more (including musical tributes to African-American icons such as Jackie Robinson and Joe Louis), as well as background and insights from African-American emancipation-celebration historian William Wiggins.
Half Hour (24:00-30:00)
From Juneteenth to Reparations: The Freedom Promise of Unfinished Resolve
From Making Contact | Part of the Making Contact series | 29:00
Juneteenth, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day, is the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.
In this show, we'll explore the history of Juneteenth and we’ll expand our conversation of Juneteenth to include a case for reparations.
The topic of reparations for African Americans has recently resurfaced with Democratic presidential candidates taking positions on the issue, elevating the discussion to the mainstream.
Juneteenth, also known as Juneteenth Independence Day or Freedom Day, is the oldest known celebration commemorating the end of slavery in the United States.
In this show, we'll explore the history of Juneteenth and we’ll expand our conversation of Juneteenth to include a case for reparations.
The topic of reparations for African Americans has recently resurfaced with Democratic presidential candidates taking positions on the issue, elevating the discussion to the mainstream.