A major component of the original collection Freedom Archives was the Real Dragon, Nothing is More Precious Than, and Freedom is a Constant Struggle news programs. These programs were created by collectives of independent radio journalists who were often involved in local, regional and national political organizing and movement work. There are over 500 total audio materials in these three sub-collections and represent over 30 years of Bay Area generated grassroots radio work.
Additionally, the Freedom Archives holds almost 1,000 radio recordings produced by Colin Edwards. Colin Edwards (1924–1994) was an outstanding internationalist journalist from Wales who did important on-the-scene interviews and documentaries on anti-imperialist national liberation struggles in the Middle East, especially Palestine, on Asia, particularly Vietnam, and on many other struggles, including the civil rights, Black Power, and student antiwar movements and Free Speech Movement in the US.
Finally, there are sub-collections on the struggle to save the I-Hotel from developers; the Paul Robeson Show and Art Sato's jazz program.
Found 372 records
Born in Brooklyn - came up in the same high school as Max Roach & Randy Weston. Ahmed eventually went to California after he somewhat retired. He was ahead of himself early & people thought he was crazy. After his second stroke he couldn't play or talk. He says he owes his come back to the "creator". He went to Morocco with Randy Weston & the people loved him. He thinks speaking fluent Arabic helped with that. Studied Indian music with Coltrane & ended up playing with him at the Village Vanguard. Ahmed played a live solo on the air with his Oud. He says everyone is looking but doesn't know what they're looking for. Once you learn the scales, you can play what you want. If you bring cultures together than you will get new sounds & ideas. Ends with part of another solo on the Oud.
Born in Brooklyn. He came up in the same high school as Max Roach & Randy Weston. Ahmed eventually went to California after he somewhat retired. He was ahead of himself early & people thought he was crazy. After his second stroke he couldn't play or talk. He says he owes his come back to the "creator". He went to Morocco with Randy Weston & the people loved him. He thinks speaking fluent Arabic helped with that. Studied Indian music with Coltrane & ended up playing with him at the Village Vanguard. Ahmed played a live solo on the air with his Oud. He says everyone is looking but doesn't know what they're looking for. Once you learn the scales, you can play what you want. If you bring cultures together than you will get new sounds & ideas. Ends with part of another solo on the Oud.
Poetry reading and tribute hosted by Harry Belafonte, with William Kunstler, Dennis Banks. and Jennifer Dohrn reading some of their favorite poems of struggle and liberation to benefit Bruce Wright, progressive African-American judge threatened with removal from the bench because of supposed leniency in cases involving poor defendants.