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