Women Make Waves: Radio During the Black Arts Movement and Beyond

Dyana Williams SummaryTranscript Dyana Williams is one of the most prolific radio deejays of the Black Arts Movement and beyond. From WHUR at Howard University to WBLS, New York City’s legendary black radio station, Dyana has touched her listeners with her love of black music. She’s known as The mother of Black Music Month, which she helped found with her ex-husband ...

Print Media & Black Feminisms of 1979

SOPHIA RICHARDS Letter from the Editor: This project began to take shape after my first visit to the Schomburg center, where I was nonchalantly flashed a cover of Ms. magazine from 1979, which featured Michele Wallace on the cover. When we learn about history, we tend to do so in monocultures: one group thought one way, while another uniformly disagreed. …

MANIFESTO AND METHODS OF THE ARCHIVAL BODY

KIANI NED ______________                   If you have any further inquiries about the MANIFESTO AND METHODS OF THE ARCHIVAL BODY please contact Kiani Ned at kiani.ned@gmail.com .

Black Dance is Black Life

Dianne McIntyre and Black Performance Art NICOLE HINES   “there was a dance that was a black dance/ that’s what it means that black folks cd dance/ it dont mean we got rhythm/…it dont mean just what we do all the time/ it’s how we remember what cannot be said” (Lost in Language & Sound, 68) Dianne McIntyre, dancer, choreographer and founder of the Sounds …