Muhammad Ali performs “Stand By Me,” from his spoken word album “I am the Greatest”(1963). Read more about the album here. The album was released less than a year before Ali’s conversion to Islam, and was released under the name Cassius Clay. Audio with still photograph. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” … Continue reading Ali, Muhammad, “Stand By Me”
Ali appears on William F. Buckley Jr.’s program Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. speaking about Ali’s role in American culture, his refusal to fight in the Vietnam war, his Islamic faith, and the relationship between Black and White America. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXB0029YKFQ” Continue reading Ali, Muhammad and William F. Buckley Jr., “Muhammad Ali and the Negro Movement”
Amiri Baraka reads “Black Art.” This performance was released on the album “Sonny’s Time Now,” featuring jazz performers Sonny Murray, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Henry Grimes, and Louis Worrell. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh2P-tlEH_w” Continue reading Baraka, Amiri, “Black Art” (1967)
Adrienne Rich reading “What Kinds of Times Are These” at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks:“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRQapdNY-F4″ Continue reading Rich, Adrienne, “What Kinds of Times Are These”
Adrienne Rich reads her 1983 poem “North American Time” in Madison WI in 1997. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bi_N3UPAD5E” Continue reading Rich, Adrienne, “North American Time”
Audio recording of Edna St. Vincent Millay reading “Love is Not All” If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvgDAOG8W6c” Continue reading Millay, Edna St. Vincent, “Love is Not All”
Audio recording of Edna St. Vincent Millay reading “Recuerdo” If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYQkEkB_fhk” Continue reading Millay, Edna St. Vincent, “Recuerdo”
Norman Mailer speaks about his book Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery, his account of JFK’s assassination (via Internet Archive) Continue reading Mailer, Norman, on JFK’s assassination
King speaks at Stanford University about the struggle to achieve meaningful reforms for civil rights abuses. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” Tab, minus the quotation marks: “https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3H978KlR20” Continue reading King Jr., Martin Luther, “The Other America” (1967)
This is a performance of the letter by management professor James Fredrickson (of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas Austen), which includes music, reenactments, and archival footage. McCombs uses the letter in his management leadership classes. Read more about it here. If you want to use this video on VOCAT, simply copy & paste the following link into your “Manage Media” … Continue reading King Jr., Martin Luther, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” (1963)
