by kitchensisters | Sep 5, 2018 | The Keepers
SPECIAL THANKS: At The Hiphop Archive at Harvard: Dr. Marcyliena Morgan, Executive Director and Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies + Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Alphonse Fletcher University Professor and Director of the Hutchins Center...
by kitchensisters | Sep 5, 2018 | Podcast, The Keepers
This week, we launch a new series — The Keepers — stories of activist archivists, rogue librarians, curators, collectors and historians. Keepers of the culture and the cultures and collections they keep. Guardians of history, large and small. Protectors of the free...
by kitchensisters | Aug 28, 2018 | Lost & Found Sound, Podcast
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS In 2000 we received a call to the NPR Lost & Found Sound Hotline from Willard Mayes, a member of the Antique Fan Collectors Association, who was concerned about the vanishing sound of electric fans. Willard leads...
by kitchensisters | Aug 14, 2018 | Lost & Found Sound, Podcast, The Keepers
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Fish mongers recorded on the streets of Harlem in the 1930s. An 8-year-old girl’s impromptu news cast made on a toy recorder in a San Diego store. Lyndon Johnson talking to FBI director J. Edgar Hoover a week after...
by kitchensisters | Jul 23, 2018 | Lost & Found Sound, Podcast
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS The story of the birth of the Grand Ole Opry on radio station WSM in Nashville, TN and the story of “Harmonica Wizard” DeFord Bailey, the Opry’s first African American performer. WSM’s most popular show, the Grand Ole...
