"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
April 18, 1956 – News Of The Day – Various newscasts – Mutual Broadcasting – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 18, 1956. If you were around on this day you would be hearing news that had a roughly familiar ring to it. Factions forwarding an agenda of Independence from...
James Brown And His Famous Flames – Live in Lausanne Switzerland – 1973 – Swiss Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – While the dust settles and Past Daily gets back to normal, I thought I would try and get things back up to speed with a classic concert by...
April 4, 1968 – Various News reports on the Death of Dr. Martin Luther King – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 1968 would be the year seemingly everything came to a head and threatened to turn our entire country upside down. It began with so much hope – so much...
Mahlathini And The Mahotella Queens – Live At Glastonbury 1989 – BBC Radio 1 – As a tribute and remembrance of Winnie Mandela, who passed away early this morning at the age of 81, I thought I would run this concert by one of South Africa’s premier and best-loved singing...
The Kerner Commission Report: One Year Later – EEN – Newsfront – March 3, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Even though the Watts disturbance (pictured above) was from 1965, the destruction, violence and deaths from that turmoil went on to be repeated in other cities throughout America in...
Count Basie and his Orchestra – Live in Milan, Italy – April 6, 1960 – RAI – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Count Basie this weekend. An American institution, Basie was a fixture from the 1930s all the way up until just before his death in 1984. An enduring figure...
Hugh Masekela – Live at The Hollywood Bowl – August 14, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Only a month into this new year and already we’ve had sad and terrible losses in the Music World. The latest is Hugh Masekela, and artist whose innovative style and uncompromising message...
Martin Luther King – Address At Chicago Rally – Extended Excerpt – July 26, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Martin Luther King – we celebrate his birth today. A celebration that would have been unthinkable 53 years ago, when this address was delivered at a Rally in Chicago....
Sen. Abraham Ribicoff – Meet The Press – January 1, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Plight of the American city – Urban decay – urban unrest – poverty – no jobs – no schools – no alternative. These were the issues facing the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson as...
Black Journal – Report Card on Black America – January 27, 1969 – NET-TV – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Fifty years ago, we were still very much in the midst of a long and contentious Civil Rights battle in America. This program, a monthly news feature of the pre-PBS...
