Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity

Say It Loud: Great Speeches on Civil Rights and African American Identity
“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 here 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.
Airs Monday, February 17 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.