Reflections Unheard: Black Women in Civil Rights
Where do black women activists fit into the epochal struggles for equality and liberation during the 1960s and 70s? This feature-length documentary unearths the story of black women’s political marginalization—between the male-dominated Black Po...
Furious Flower 1: Warriors
[Video is glitchy for the first 30 minutes, audio is fine though] 00:10 Introduction begins, Joanne V. Gabbin narrates; 01:30 Askia M. Touré interviews Amiri Baraka; 07:58 Baraka reads "Heathens"; 12:20 Baraka reads "I Am"; 20:55 Baraka reads "So t...
Friday Poetry Reading Part 2, 9/30/1994
00:00 continues Nikki Giovanni's reading; 01:20 Lucille Clifton introduces Eugene Redmond; 05:18 Redmond reads poems; 21:15 Joanne V. Gabbin closes out
Friday Poetry Reading Part 1, 9/30/1994
01:30 Dolores Kendrick speaks, reads poem "The Agony and the Bone"; 34:00 Lucille Clifton introduces Nikki Giovanni; 38:55 Rita Dove speaks and reads poems
Warriors II
00:43 Introduction begins, Joanne V. Gabbin narrates; 01:54 Lorenzo Thomas interviews Sonia Sanchez; 03:06 Sanchez reads "I Have Walked A Long Time"; 06:55 Sanchez reads excerpts from "We Are Here"; 17:45 Sanchez reads "Catch the Fire"; 19:51 Jabari...
Furious Flower 1994 Conference Supercut Part 5
00:00 Continues Gwendolyn Brooks's reading; 32:52 Haki R. Madhubuti speaks; 37:48 Joanne V. Gabbin speaks; 42:04 Dolores Kendrick speaks and reads; 1:14:23 Lucille Clifton speaks; 1:19:15 Nikki Giovanni speaks and reads; 1:46:49 Clifton speaks; 1:50...
Thursday Poetry Reading Part 3, 9/23/2004
00:00 video begins in the middle of Lucille Clifton speaking; 06:40 Nikki Giovanni speaks; 41:17 Kalamu ya Salaam speaks; 41:57 Joanne V. Gabbin ends session
Truth Is On Its Way Part 1
00:00 Loud signal test!; 00:18 Music begins; 06:54 Nikki Giovanni begins spoken word with musical accompaniment, this continues intermittently throughout video
Truth Is On Its Way Part 2
00:00 Loud signal test; continuance of part 1, includes music and spoken word poetry from Nikki Giovanni