Can Do: Stories of Black Visionaries, Seekers, and Entrepreneurs
From The Kitchen Sisters: “Can Do: Stories of Black Visionaries, Seekers, and Entrepreneurs,” with host, Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actress, Alfre Woodard. These stories come from The Kitchen Sisters collection — stories of black pioneers, self-made men and self-taught women, neighborhood heroes and visionaries. People who said “yes we can” and then did.
A man tapes the history of his town with a scavenged cassette recorder, a woman fights for social justice with a pie, a DJ ignites his community with a sound. Experience this richly produced and deeply layered special that resonates for Black History Month.
Airs Tuesday, February 18 at 8 pm on 93.9 FM and AM 820.
Learn more about WNYC’s Black History Month programming.
Additionally, the New York Public Radio Archives is sharing some of the department’s leading preservation work, series and sonic artifacts concerning African-American history. You can explore it here.