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Reclaim Pride 2023; Commentary on Pride; & Banned Book Review: All Boys Aren't Blue
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Tune into Out-FM on Tues., June 13, 2023 from 8:00-9:00pm, on 99.5 FM WBAI/NY or listen live at https://www.wbai.org/listen-live/
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Reclaim Pride 2023
On Sunday, June 25th, Reclaim Pride Coalition will sponsor the 5th Annual Queer Liberation March, a non-corporate, inclusive alternative for the progressive LGBTIQ community. The March begins at 2 PM in Foley Square and, after a route through lower Manhattan, ends in Washington Square Park. Spokes-person Jay Walker tells host Naomi Brussel about the festivities.
Peter Jonas
A commentary by Peter Jonas on his experience with Pride and what it means in the present day reality of white supremacist, anti-trans backlash
All Boys Aren't Blue
All Boys Aren't Blue
Stahimili Mapp's review of another banned book, "All Boys Aren't Blue."
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Black Panther Women, Angela Davis & Lorraine Hansberry
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Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party (a gorgeous new photo book)
Interview with co-author Ericka Huggins, Party leader, educator, former political prisoner, and queer woman
Photo of Ericka Huggins by Peggy Moore
A promotional video announcement for the original full show broadcast in March is posted here.
Tune into Out-FM for excerpts from an interview with Ericka Huggins, queer Black Panther Party leader, longtime educator, and former political prisoner, by co-producers Stahimili Mapp and Bob Lederer. Sister Ericka discusses the new book she’s published with photographer Stephen Shames titled Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party.
Sister Ericka discusses what first drew her to the Black Panthers, and then the remarkable women she profiles in the book and the persistent failure of both the Black and white media to portray the 66% of Party members who were women. She also explains the significance of the Party’s Community Survival Programs and the philosophy and practice of the Oakland Community School that she directed from 1973-1981.
Author and activist Lorraine Hansberry
Tune into Out-FM for excerpts of the program last year about the brilliant Black playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who died in 1965 at age 34. Hansberry was a far more committed feminist and socialist than popular culture has portrayed – and was also a lesbian who wrote fierce pro-feminist (but anonymous) letters to a leading lesbian magazine in the '50s. This broadcast will include excerpts of Bob Lederer’s interview last fall with Professor Bettina Aptheker, author of the remarkable history book, Communists in Closets, which includes a chapter on Hansberry. Professor Aptheker explains how Hansberry was schooled by what she calls the Black communist intelligentsia surrounding the Party in the 1950s. This program will include excerpts from WBAI’s 1967 documentary titled "Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words," courtesy of the Pacifica Radio Archive. You’ll hear excerpts from major Hollywood names, including Paul Robeson, paying tribute and reading Hansberry’s writings.
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• For a $77 donation, you’ll receive a printed copy of Comrade Sisters: Women of the Black Panther Party, by Stephen Shames and Ericka Huggins.
• For a $50 donation, you’ll receive an electronic version of Dr. Aptheker’s book, Communists in Closets. Aptheker's book explores the history of non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party USA, which banned lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from membership between 1938 and 1992. The book includes an in-depth chapter on Lorraine Hansberry.
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