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Black History and Culture

Here are some short audio segments celebrating Black History and Culture.  They are part of WPKN Radio's celebration of Black History Month.   Mo st were r ecorded at Canio's Books and the John Jermain Library in Sag Harbor: Listen here:  1: JoAnne Carter reads Langston Hughes - recorded Feb 2012    2: Mikhal Gohring - the life and work of Etheridge Knight  3: Zohra Neale Hurston and Etheridge Knight     4: Sag Harbor Poets Beverly Wiggins-Wells and Barbara Whitehead Brewster        5: Bob Zellner - A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement: Family History     6: Alice Walker reads Sojourner Truth's speech "Ain't I a Woman" Part of a reading from Voices of a People's History of the United States - introduced by the late historian Howard Zinn.    7: James Baldwin - The Price of The Ticket produced by California Newsreel 8: Yale Historian David Blight on Fredrick Douglass ...