Digital gems from our archives as your thank you from KPFA.
Herbie Hancock is an internationally famous American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader and composer. As part of Miles Davis’s Second Great Quintet, he was one of the primary creators of the “post-bop” sound. Hancock has combined a unique blend of jazz, blues, modern classical music (like Debussy and Ravel), and sheer funk. Throughout his explorations, he has … Continued
Carlos Santana is one of the most influential and celebrated artists of all time. For forty years and as many albums later, Santana has sold more than 100 million records and reached more than 100 million fans at concerts worldwide. A 10-time Grammy winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, in the realm of … Continued
Bobby Seale explodes the myth of the armed street gang promulgated by Ronald Reagan and J. Edgar Hoover. The Panthers were a group of professional, semi-professional, and college students who formed this anti-segregation, broad-spectrum civil rights movement whose legal use of arms Bobby would substitute for videocameras in 1995. An energetic and relevant look at … Continued
Edwidge Danticat, is a Haitian-American novelist and short story writer. Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published in 1994 and went on to become an Oprah’s Book Club selection. Danticat has since written or edited several books and has been the recipient of many awards and honors. In this KPFA event from October 2013 Danticat talks about her … Continued
In this speech titled, After the March, What? Bayard Rustin explains the specific intentions of the March on Washington. We’ve all heard about the legislative purpose…voting rights and so on. But he also described the March being planned as a way to prevent a violent Summer of unrest and the nonviolent strategy and being one … Continued
