Found 6 collections related to African American authors -- Interviews

The Umbra Poets Workshop was a group of young African-American writers who met on New York City's Lower East Side from 1962 to 1965 to conduct readings and discuss writing and politics. The Umbra Poets Workshop collection consists of oral history interviews with fourteen of the poets along with letters relating to the formation of Umbra and Calvin Hernton's activities. less

The feature-length 16mm documentary James Baldwin: The Price of the Ticket, directed by Karen Thorsen in 1989, is an autobiographical portrait of writer and activist James Baldwin. Without using narration, the film allows Baldwin to tell his own story. It premiered on American Masters, a PBS show, in 1989. Since then, repeated PBS broadcasts have reached millions of people. The film received numerous awards and was honored at festivals in over two-dozen countries, including Sundance, London, Berlin, and Tokyo. Co-written and produced by Karen Thorsen and Douglas K. Dempsey, the film uses archival and original footage, including scenes from Baldwin's funeral service; explorations of his homes in France, Switzerland, Turkey, and Harlem; and on-camera interviews with close friends, colleagues, and critics including his brother David; biographer David Leeming; writers Maya Angelou, Amiri Baraka, William Styron, Ishmael Reed, and Yashar Kemal; painter Lucien Happersberger, and entertainer Bobby Short. This collection consists of material used to make the film including notebooks and binders prepared by the production crew documenting the resources acquired during film research; transcripts of interviews; research forms; stock footage research; book tour itineraries and promotional items; articles about Baldwin; FBI files on Baldwin; eulogies and memorials; and reviews. less

The Octavia Butler papers is a small collection (1 folder) featuring unpublished interviews with Octavia Butler, published articles by Octavia Butler, correspondence between Butler, Ernest Blackwell (former staff member at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture), and Felicia Eth (Butler's agent), as well as Ernest Blackwell's handwritten notes related to themes of racism, racial stereotypes, and racial conflict in science fiction writing. less

Cliff Jahr (1937-1991) was an American journalist and writer. This collection consists of research files for celebrity profiles and other articles about the entertainment industry published between 1972 and 1991, and files on the 1988 book Detour: A Hollywood Tragedy -- My Life with Lana Turner, My Mother, which Jahr co-wrote with Cheryl Crane. less

The London-based Transcription Centre was a cultural organization that produced and recorded audio interviews and programs related to arts and culture in Africa and across the African diaspora. The Transcription Centre Interviews with African Writers audio collection consists of 108 audio interviews and programs recorded between 1962 and 1970. Featuring African, African American, and West Indian writers, artists, scholars, politicians, musicians, and other significant cultural figures, the recordings focus on African literature, art, history, politics, culture, and contemporary issues. The organization was later discovered to be funded by a CIA front organization. less

James Baldwin (1924-1987) was an African American novelist, essayist, intellectual, and activist, renowned as one of the world's most influential voices of the twentieth century. The James Baldwin audio collection consists of thirty-five audio recordings of mostly interviews and speeches given by Baldwin from the 1960s to 1980s. less