by nathan | Jan 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
Dear Friends, On this fraught and powerful day, when as a nation we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy and witness the beginning of the 47th Presidency, we want to share our annual, ritual offering of music, The Kitchen Sisters Soundtrack. Music from our...
by nathan | Jan 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
In the grand tradition of American democracy, presidential inaugurations have long served as stages for our nation’s most celebrated artists. From Lady Gaga to Marion Anderson, from Beyoncé to Frank Sinatra, these ceremonies have featured performers whose music...
by nathan | Aug 5, 2022 | Uncategorized
Come join The Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) in conversation with Academy Award-winning actor Frances McDormand live at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. Thursday night, September 15 to celebrate the recent acquisition by the Library...
by kitchensisters | Jan 11, 2022 | Hidden Kitchens, Hidden World of Girls, Lost & Found Sound, Podcast, The Keepers, The Making Of, The Sonic Memorial Project
Dear Friends,Here’s the beautiful news we want to share with you. The Library of Congress has acquired the entire archive of The Kitchen Sisters — some 7,000 hours of interviews, oral histories and field recordings along with photographs, notebooks, and journals — and...
by kitchensisters | Nov 15, 2021 | Podcast
Our latest podcast episode takes a journey into the world of photographer Camille Seaman. Here is a selection of photos from the story. “That’s me down in the lower corner with my crazy hair” “All of us children would end up being watched by my Nana or...
by kitchensisters | Sep 15, 2021 | The Keepers
“NPR’s Audie Cornish talks with Maya Cade, who saw how hard it is to access movies by Black directors — so she created the Black Film Archive, a collection of nearly 250 films spanning seven decades.”
by kitchensisters | Jun 10, 2021 | Podcast
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Spotify | RSS On March 6, 1971, a group of some of the top musicians from the United States -– Ike and Tina Turner, Wilson Pickett, the Staple Singers, and more -– boarded a plane bound for Ghana to perform in a musical...
by kitchensisters | Apr 27, 2021 | Podcast
Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Spotify | RSS San Francisco. Twilight, February 9. A sign in the neighborhood pet shop window catches our eye — Spotlight on Black Entrepreneurs — and lures us in. There before us, a table laden with pet products made by black-owned...
by kitchensisters | Apr 24, 2021 | Hidden Kitchens, Podcast
SUBSCRIBE TO THE PODCAST As Joe Biden becomes the first U.S. president to formally affirm the fact of the Armenian Genocide, we present… The Birth of Rice-A-Roni: The San Francisco-Italian-Armenian Treat The worlds of a young Canadian immigrant, an Italian...
by kitchensisters | Apr 19, 2021 | The Keepers
“In 2011 I uprooted my life, leaving Utah and moving to San Francisco. My very first week, I walked to City Lights Books and bought a map of San Francisco.” -Travis Monson in SFGATE Read the story. And follow Travis on Instagram. (H/t: California...
