by kitchensisters | Feb 23, 2016 | Fugitive Waves, Hidden Kitchens
In the 1950s, a group of Montgomery, Alabama women baked goods to help fund the Montgomery bus boycott. Known as the Club from Nowhere the group was led by Georgia Gilmore, one of the unsung heroes of the civil rights era. This story comes from Can Do: Portraits of...
by kitchensisters | Feb 9, 2016 | Fugitive Waves, Hidden Kitchens, Lost & Found Sound
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS New Orleans stories from The Kitchen Sisters—including the world of unexpected, down home convict cooking at The Angola Prison Rodeo, an event that draws some seventy thousand people annually to this agricultural...
by kitchensisters | Jan 26, 2016 | Fugitive Waves, Hidden World of Girls
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Our show today is in honor of the beloved poet C. D. Wright, who unexpectedly passed away recently. We were fortunate to spend time with her just a few months back at the Center for Documentary Studies where she read...
by kitchensisters | Jan 12, 2016 | Fugitive Waves, Lost & Found Sound
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS In 1948, Bill Hawkins became Cleveland’s first black disc jockey. He had a jiving, rhyming style. People gathered on the street to watch him broadcast from a glass booth at the front of his record store. His popularity...
by kitchensisters | Dec 22, 2015 | Fugitive Waves
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Stitcher | RSS Produced by The Kitchen Sisters & Roman Mars’ 99% Invisible. Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl was scarce, ingenious Russians began recording banned bootlegged...
