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[Thread] So, it took having to do a search on the website, but I managed to find the #BlackHistoryMonth audio archives on the #WMPG website. Hopefully, the ones from 2025 will also be posted on their website (and the ones already posted won't disappear...).

Black History month - daily short history audio features

Posted February 3, 2021 by 'mpger

"Everyday in the month of February (Black history month), WMPG is airing a short audio feature about an influential Black man or woman in history. We’ll hear about people from Maine to Malawi. We celebrate scientists, radicals, teachers, preachers, musicians, athletes, and those who fought to followed their dreams. You can hear them all again right here: #BillieHoliday , #LeonardCummings , #MaconBollingAllen , #HarrietTubman , #NelsonMandela , #ShirleyChisholm , #MarshaPJohnson , #GordonParks , #JackieRobinson, #AngelaDavis , #ThurgoodMarshall , #StevieWonder , #Lizzo , #CornellWest , #TrevorNoah , #MaeJemison , #TaranaBurke , #AlvinAiley , #JosephineBaker, #RhiannonGiddens, #SunRa, and #LaverneCox."

Link to mp3 audio files:
wmpg.org/black-history-month-d
#BlackHistory #BlackMusicians #BlackHistoricalFigures #CommunityRadio #WMPGFM

wmpgBlack History month- daily short history audio features - wmpgWMPG Community Radio features a daily short history audio for Black History month broadcasting from the University of Southern Maine

Untitled, 1967⁠

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Gordon Parks born this day in 1912.

Photographer, musician, writer and film director, became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography.

Parks was the first African American to produce and direct major motion pictures.

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Ingrid Bergman

Photography © Gordon Parks
On the set of Stromboli
1949

She continued to alternate between performances in American and European films for the rest of her career and also made occasional appearances in television dramas.
She played in Ingmar Bergman's
Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten) 1978, for which she received her 7th Academy Award nomination. This was her final performance on the big screen.
She died on her bday in 1982. (Londen)

Gordon Parks born this day in 1912.

Photographer, musician, writer and film director, became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography.

Parks was the first African American to produce and direct major motion pictures.

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