Interview

Jane Goodall
categories: Interview, Speeches
Dr. Jane Goodall’s “Final Message to the World” - Mar. 2025
October 6, 2025
This video was posted posthumously through Netflix’s Famous Last Words series. The recording itself took place in March 2025. In the place where I am now, I look back over my life. I look back at the world I've left behind. What message do I want to leave? I want to make sure that you all understand that each and every one of you has a role to play. You may not know it. You may not find it. But your life matters, and you are here for a reason. […]
Barbara Lee
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A Conversation with Barbara Lee - Nov. 5, 2019
November 5, 2019
This public forum was held on November 5, 2019, in Smith Hall at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. Conducted as part of the Kennedy Library Forums series, it featured a moderated conversation between Congresswoman Barbara Lee and Harvard Law professor Kenneth Mack. Alan Price: Good evening. I'm Alan Price, Director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. And on behalf of all my Library and Foundation colleagues, I thank you for braving the weather and the traffic and coming out this evening. […]
Angela Davis
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Explorations in Black Leadership Series - April 15, 2009
April 15, 2009
Julian Bond interviews Dr. Angela Davis in this installment of "Explorations in Black Leadership." The series is presented by the Institute for Public History at the University of Virginia. BOND: Dr. Davis, welcome to Explorations in Black Leadership. We’re glad to have you. DAVIS: Thank you so much for inviting me. BOND: No, it’s our pleasure. Let me begin with the Brown decision. Do you remember much about it meaning anything to you when you heard about it first? You were quite young. DAVIS: I was about ten years old, […]
Margaret Walker Alexander
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A Writer for Her People: An Interview with Dr. Margaret Walker Alexander – Jan. 24, 1986
January 24, 1986
Alexander was interviewed by Jerry W. Ward, Jr., Lawrence Durgin Professor of Literature at Tougaloo College, in 1986. WARD: Dr. Alexander, I would like to take the road less travelled by, as Frost put it, to talk a little about your life, literature and culture in the Eighties, and the future as you see it. Can we begin with place, the sense of place, the South? You've lived and worked in Mississippi since 1949, and you wrote in the poem "Jackson, Mississippi": I give you my heart, Southern City For […]
Margaret Walker Alexander
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The Fusion of Ideas: An Interview with Margaret Walker Alexander - July 14, 1992
July 14, 1992
Walker was interviewed by Maryemma Graham, associate professor of English at Northeastern University and director of the History of Black Writing Project, in 1992. GRAHAM: I'd like to talk about the book This Is My Century as a representative text. ALEXANDER: From my early adolescence, I've been dealing with the meaning of the century. I was born when it was barely fifteen years old, and now we have less than ten years left in this century. So the body of my work – whether it's Jubilee, For My People, This […]
Valerie Jarrett
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Leadership in the White House - March 13, 2014
March 13, 2014
In March 2014, Jarrett participated as a speaker on the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health webcast series “Voices in Leadership” in a discussion titled "Leadership in the White House," moderated by Dr. Atul Gawande. JARRETT: That was a flawless introduction. You could have left off the years I graduated from school; other than that it was really good. GAWANDE: Well this is fantastic, because of course what you're getting to tell us about and this whole series focuses on decision-making in leadership to help develop young people […]
Lisa Goree
categories: Interview, Speeches
Interview for CUNY TV “One to One” – Aug. 19, 2024
August 19, 2025
Goree is interviewed by Sheryl McCarthy, host of CUNY TV’s show “One to One.” MCCARTHY: Welcome to One To One. It was big news earlier this year when Lisa Goree, the elected town assessor for the town of Southampton, was appointed head of the Shinnecock Indian Nation on eastern Long Island, the tribe's first female leader in more than 200 years. It probably was also news to many that an Indian reservation even exists on Long Island, right next to one of the area's most affluent beach communities. How did […]
Angela Davis
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On Revolution: A Conversation Between Grace Lee Boggs and Angela Davis - March 2, 2012
March 2, 2012
This conversation was part of the 27th Empowering Women of Color Conference, “A Holistic Approach: Justice, Access and Healing.” ANGELA DAVIS: First of all it’s really good to see you, Grace. It’s an unimaginable honor for me to share the stage with you this afternoon. I would like to begin by acknowledging the Indigenous people who are the original inhabitants of the land on which we meet this afternoon. And let us never forget that our presence here is very much related to the genocidal violence inflicted on this area’s […]
Grace Lee Boggs
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On Revolution: A Conversation Between Grace Lee Boggs and Angela Davis - March 2, 2012
March 2, 2012
This conversation was part of the 27th Empowering Women of Color Conference, “A Holistic Approach: Justice, Access and Healing.” ANGELA DAVIS: First of all it’s really good to see you, Grace. It’s an unimaginable honor for me to share the stage with you this afternoon. I would like to begin by acknowledging the Indigenous people who are the original inhabitants of the land on which we meet this afternoon. And let us never forget that our presence here is very much related to the genocidal violence inflicted on this area’s […]
Portia Simpson Miller
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Interview with Janet Silvera - March 8, 2017
March 8, 2017
Simpson Miller gave this interview with Janet Silvera of The Gleaner just before her retirement from the Jamaican Parliament. SILVERA: Mrs. Simpson Miller, you have had quite a journey on the road of time, certainly many lasting memories. What’s that one particular moment that stands out for you? SIMPSON MILLER: My first was the night of the local government elections when I contested for the strongest division for the [?] in the constituency and at the end of the counting I became the winner of the strongest [?] division in […]