Maya Angelou at the Calvin Simmons Theater in Oakland, September 8th, 1995 with her son poet Guy Johnson and poet Janice Mirikitani in an event titled As The World Rises.
Special voices of Black History from KPFA’s cache of illustrious past public events.
Maya Angelou at the Calvin Simmons Theater in Oakland, September 8th, 1995 with her son poet Guy Johnson and poet Janice Mirikitani in an event titled As The World Rises.
Langston Hughes speaks to a live audience, interspersing stories from his life, including his childhood, family life, and how he got started writing, with readings of his poems. Recorded at the University of California, Berkeley, December 10, 1958.