3:30 PM Pacific Time: Wednesdays
Weekly interviews with poets, performance artists, film-makers, novelists and storytellers. The first week of every month is a combined one-hour program featuring Jack Foley & Nina Serrano. The archive can be found at Cover to Cover with Jack Foley. The second week is hosted by Nina Serrano, Poet 2 Poet. The third week is hosted by Jovelyn Richards, Jovelyn’s Bistro. The fourth week is hosted by Reyna Cowan, Frame to Frame. And the fifth week (if there is one) is hosted again by Jovelyn Richards, Jovelyn’s Bistro.
We will be talking about two Bay Area productions taking place in the next week. One is Toni Morrison’s "The Bluest Eye" which is being produced by the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre in San Francisco and the other is a play written by Evangeline Ordaz entitled "A Visitor’s Guide to Arivaca," a multi-dimensional look at the … Continued
Say it Plain is the first anthology of African American political oratory designed for the ear and the eye. An American giant of 20th-century music, Paul Robeson stood tall against racism, McCarthyism, and blacklisting to proclaim the majesty of African-American culture, as heard on the Smithsonian Folkways African American Legacy series.
Open Book will be showcasing the film "Voices of Dissent."Using events, theatre, song, dance, comedy, satire, music, poetry, interviews with many well-known personalities and the wisdom of our founding fathers, VOICES reminds us of our roots and the importance of protecting authentic democracy. It challenges anyone who would limit the freedoms and civil liberties granted … Continued
KPFA DJ Brother K recently interviewed the IFUGAO [pronounced "EE-FOO-GOW"] Music and Dance Ensemble from the Mountains of the Northern Philippines about their Indigenous Culture, Proud Resistance to Colonization, and Performances and Cultural Workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area. The interview was conducted in Ifugao and English with the Elder and members of the … Continued
Grace Paley, the activist and writer whose vibrant, Bronx-accented short stories illuminated the daily trials and boisterous interior lives of working-class men and women in language that radiated humanity, intelligence and streetwise humor, died last month on August 22nd. She was 84. In celebration of her life, this afternoon we bring you, a documentary titled … Continued
Hosted by Jiarra Jackson, "Youth Radio’s Generation Katrina: Youth Voices from New Orleans" talks at length with young people in New Orleans, a changed city since Hurricane Katrina. Life today is dramatically different for many youth, compared to pre-Katrina times. One teen, for example, struggles with the trauma of living through the hurricane. A college … Continued
