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How African Americans Entered Mainstream Radio

For nearly 50 years, commercial radio companies only employed white broadcasters to target information and entertainment to mainstream America. The

African Americans have long been interested in Haiti.1 Decades before the so-called “Haitian turn” of the twenty-first century in US

In 1932, James Ford returned from the Soviet Union with a letter from the Russian film company Meschrabpom saying it

*This post is part of our online forum on the Life and Work of Audre Lorde. In this interview, Keelyn Bradley,

Audre Lorde and I were once mortal enemies. At least that’s the way it seemed. In late 2004, I wrote