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Archiving the Underground — Hip Hop at Harvard & Cornell
We delve into the story of the founding of the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute at Harvard by Dr. Marcyliena Morgan, Professor of African and Af…
2 years, 10 months ago
Edith Warner's Atomic Tea Room
It was top secret. But everyone in Santa Fe knew there was something going on up on the hill in the remote, desert mountains of Los Alamos in 1943. J…
2 years, 11 months ago
Remembering "The Day After Trinity - J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb"
In 1981, The Kitchen Sisters interviewed filmmaker Jon Else about his Academy Award nominated documentary, The Day After Trinity, a deeply moving fil…
2 years, 11 months ago
International Congress of Youth Voices—Youth on Fire
Behind the scenes at the International Congress of Youth Voices when 131 youth activists,13 to 26 years old, from 37 countries — students, writers, p…
3 years ago
Amaza Lee Meredith, African American Architect: Love & Home
Born in 1895 in Lynchburg, VA, Amaza Lee Meredith was an African American architect, artist and educator who taught at Virginia State College where s…
3 years ago
Prince and the Technician
In 1983 Prince hired LA sound technician Susan Rogers, one of the few women in the industry, to move to Minneapolis and help upgrade his home recordi…
3 years, 1 month ago
The Passion of Chris Strachwitz 1931-2023 —Arhoolie Records
Chris was a man possessed. “El Fanatico,” Ry Cooder called him. A song catcher, dedicated to recording the traditional, regional, down home music of …
3 years, 1 month ago
Ada Louise Huxtable, Architecture Critic: The Art We Must Live With
Ada Louise Huxtable, who “invented” the profession of architecture critic, wrote countless articles for two great daily newspapers and had a gigantic…
3 years, 2 months ago
Tony Schwartz Centennial - 30,000 Recordings Later
Cab drivers, children’s jump rope rhymes, folk songs, dialects, controversial TV ads, interviews with blacklisted artists and writers during the McCa…
3 years, 2 months ago
House/Full of Black Women
For some eight years now thirty-four Black women have gathered monthly around a big dining room table in the orange house on Orange Street in Oakland…
3 years, 3 months ago