Audio collection of June Jordan, 1970-2000

Jordan speaks informally with Fuller about land use, working with students, solar and wind power projects, geodesic domes, and other topics.

Jordan interviews Paul Owens about the events surrounding the shootings at Jackson State College in Mississippi. Owens was student president of the Afro-American Society on campus at the time.

Jordan discusses the politics of language, separatism in American culture, the power of poetry, and being a feminist and revolutionary. She also reads poems.

Jordan discusses the budget issues within the City University of New York system, the lack of opportunities for graduating students, the case of Black Panther Assata Shakur, and about the challenges of having been a young, black, single mother. She also reads poetry.

Jordan and other African-American writers and scholars are guests for round-table conversation on the radio program, Black Dialogue, with Diane Lacey. Topics include Michele Wallace's book Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman, relations between the sexes in the African-American community, and African-American women writers and activists.

Jordan discusses being an inspiration to others, selecting the artwork for the book, teaching at Sarah Lawrence College, and her upbringing. She reads from the book.

Jordan discusses a play she's writing about police violence, and her children's books, Kimako's Story and New Life: New Room.

Jordan discusses the accessibility of language in her poetry, inspiration, childrearing, the importance of self-determination, the Equal Rights Amendment, and race relations in the United States since the 1960s. She and the interviewer read her poems and takes questions from callers.

Jordan discusses the accessibility of language in her poetry, inspiration, childrearing, the importance of self-determination, the Equal Rights Amendment, and race relations in the United States since the 1960s. She and the interviewer read her poems and takes questions from callers.

Jordan speaks at a benefit for the literary magazine about up-coming protests against the United States' invasion of El Salvador, and reads poems.

Jordan discusses the recent Atlanta child murders and reads poems.

Jordan interviews Sylvia Fox regarding youth organizing on Corn Islands, Nicaragua, and working in Bluefields as an advocate for the rights of schoolchildren. Jordan also interviews a local painter whose works feature people of mixed descent.