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Lea Aschkenas interviews Margaret Randall

MARGARET RANDALL IS A feminist poet and writer, a professor and oral historian, and a social justice activist in the United States and abroad for the past half century. In 2004, she received the PEN…
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4889 words)

What It Cost Eight Women Writers To Make It In New York

Top row: Dorothy Parker, Zora Neale Hurston, Shirley Jackson, Gael Greene. Bottom row: Patti Smith, Susan Sontag, Tama Janowitz, Kate Christensen. In 1967, Patti Smith wrote in Just Kids, she was…
AUTHOR:Brent Cox
PUBLISHED: April 17, 2012
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5736 words)

How Gil Scott-Heron and Stevie Wonder set up Martin Luther King Day

Memphis, Tennessee was only 90 miles west of Jackson, my childhood home. But Memphis was as far away as the north pole in my mind. The history that we were given about it was done in light pencil…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 8, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2411 words)
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