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Disc 1. Caedmon presents The African-American Audio Experience -- The storyteller's silence / Nikki Giovanni -- Black Boy (excerpts) / Richard Wright: One cold morning -- My mother fell ill -- At last we were at the railroad station -- My mother became too ill to work -- At the age of twelve. Disc 2. Black Boy (cont.): As summer neared -- I grew silent and reserved -- My life now depended upon -- I stared bleakly into the morning sun -- I knew what was wrong with me. Disc 3. A raisin in the sun (excerpts) / Lorraine Hansberry: Mornin' Bennie -- Oooo-whooeee! -- Hello -- Beneatha, well what have we got on tonight? Disc 4. A raisin in the sun (cont.): Will you be quiet -- Oh Lord I don't feel noways tired -- Well, is this all the packin's got done -- I came over -- Yes. Yes. Just look at what the new world hath wrought -- That's not a man. That's nothing but a toothless rat. Disc 5. Nikki Giovanni poetry collection (Excerpts)/ Nikki Giovanni: In the spirit of Martin -- Rosa Parks -- A robin's nest in snow -- And yeah ... this is a love poem -- Commentary on Tupac Shakur -- All eyez on U (For Tupac Shakur) -- The song of the feet -- Shoulders are for emergencies only -- Tall Tales" chapter of "Every tongue got to confess" (Selections) / Zora Neale Hurston -- Langston Hughes reads (Selections): One way ticket -- When I was thirteen years old -- The Negro speaks of rivers -- I went to Columbia University -- Puzzled -- I eventually found work on the boats -- The trumpet player -- I sort of went backwards -- Ballad of the gypsy -- Poems / Gwendolyn Brooks: We real cool -- Malcom X -- The sermon on the warpland. |
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