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Say It L oud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identi ty  from American RadioWorks Tonight, we present the conclusion of our Black History Month programming. " Say It Loud " includes landmark speeches by  Stokely Carmichael ,   Bayard Rustin ,  Ward Connerly ,  Dorothy Height ,  Vernon Jordan , and many others. T he vital and rich immediacy of the  words  spoken within  " Say It Loud " reveal the diversity of ideas and arguments pulsing through the black freedom movement.  To hear Part One of  " Say It Loud "  simply visit the KFAI archives .  Special Bonus Track: "Respect Me" by James Brown from his album Live at the Apollo 1995

Say it Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity from American RadioWorks "Say It Loud" traces the last 50 years of black history through stirring , historically important speeches by African Americans from across the political spectrum. With recordings unearthed from libraries and sound archives, and made widely available for the first time, " Say It Loud " includes landmark speeches by Malcolm X , Lorraine Hansberry , Angela Davis , Martin Luther King Jr. , Henry Louis Gates , and many others.  We will be broadcasting this documentary in two parts. Part 2 will air next week, on February 27th.

Gayle and Frank Newby, Ben and Bernice Finn, and  Sigmund Stahl from StoryCorps It all started on a triple blind date that Gayle was absolutely dreading. Within days, however, they were married. Ben and his wife Bernice met on a blind date over a half-century ago. Ben didn't own a suit so he bought one specifically for the occasion. It was money well spent... even if it meant they could only drink coffee for dinner. A colleague at work decided Sigmund needed a date & that he was going to fix Sig up. Enter Bonnie. "Did you hear of a movie called Deep Throat ?" Bonnie asked. Sig hadn't but "It must be great," he thought. "There's a line around the block!" Stahl was in for quite a shock. The Penguin Goes A Courtin' by Jonathan Goldstein Before The Penguin became a notorious villain in Gotham City , he was a boozing dandy who lived in London. The Penguin's friends all thought that if he just met the right woman, he mig...

A braham Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address read by Orson Welles Delivered on March 4, 1865, a bolitionist  Frederick Douglass called the speech "a sacred effort." Additionally, the president himself thought that his Second Inaugural , which offered a theodicy of the Civil War, was better than his Gettysburg Address . Portrait of Lincoln by Tony Schwartz Tony asks average New Yorkers what they understand and know about Lincoln. This is taken from a  Folkways Records album titled "You're Stepping On My Shadow" released in 1962. The LP is a collection of "sound stories" which aired on WNYC 's "Around New York" program that Tony hosted. Lincoln, Pts. 1 and 2 by Carl Sandburg Carl August Sandburg was an American writer, historian, hobo, activist, drop-out, and editor, best known for his poetry. He won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his poetry and another for a biography of our 16th President . Lincoln, Man of the People by E...