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Out-FM

Tue, Mar 28, 2023 20:00 PM

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Hosts: OutFM Collective
Topics:
  • An encore program about the brilliant Black playwright Lorraine Hansberry, who died in 1965 at age 34. Hansberry was a far more committed feminist and socialist than popular culture has portrayed – and was also a lesbian who wrote fierce pro - feminist though anonymous letters to a leading lesbian magazine. This broadcast will include Bob Lederer’s interview last fall with Professor Bettina Aptheker, author of Communists in Closets, which includes a chapter on Hansberry. Professor Aptheke
Synopsis:

Lorraine Hansberry Fundraiser for WBAI

Guests:
  • Professor Bettina Aptheker, author of Communists in Closets -
  • Recordings of Paul Robeson, Ossie Davis and others. -
Playlist:
  • Young, Gifted and Black, - Aretha Franklin
  • The Internationale - Billy Bragg
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