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Soul of Reason, the Glossary

Soul of Reason was a talk radio show focused on African American arts and culture, hosted by Roscoe Brown from 1971 to 1986 on WNYU-FM, with rebroadcast on WNBC and at times WNBC-FM.^[1]

69 relations: A. Peter Bailey, Addison Gayle, Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death, Arthur French (actor), ASPIRA Association, Atlanta Hawks, Barbara Montgomery, Baruch College, Bill Gunn (writer), Black Enterprise, Black Sports, Black Theatre Alliance, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Camille Billops, Cecil Taylor, Charles Mays, Chester Higgins Jr., City College of New York, David Dinkins, Dean Meminger, Democratic National Committee, Dianne McIntyre, Ed Bullins, English language, Gilbert Moses, Glynn Turman, Gordon Davis, Hayden, Stone & Co., Herb Douglas, Jean Blackwell Hutson, John Oliver Killens, John Rhoden, José Angel Figueroa, June Jackson Christmas, Leonard Jeffries, Linda Goode Bryant, Marcia Ann Gillespie, Mary Lou Williams, Maxine Sullivan, Miguel Piñero, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Nathan Huggins, New York Amsterdam News, New York Knicks, New York State Division of Human Rights, New York University, New York University College of Dentistry, NYC Health + Hospitals, Orde M. Coombs, PepsiCo, ... Expand index (19 more) »
1970s American radio programs
1971 radio programme debuts
1980s American radio programs
1986 radio programme endings
African-American radio
Radio in New York City

Addison Gayle

Addison Gayle, Jr. (June 2, 1932 – October 3, 1991) was an American professor, literary critic, and author in New York City.

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Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death

Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death (Tunes from Blackness) is a musical with a book, music, and lyrics by Melvin Van Peebles.

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Arthur French (actor)

Arthur Wellesley French Jr. (November 6, 1931 – July 24, 2021) was an American actor and director, best known for his work in the theatre.

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ASPIRA Association

The ASPIRA Association is an American nonprofit organization whose mission is to "empower the Latino community through advocacy and the education and leadership development of its youth".

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Atlanta Hawks

The Atlanta Hawks are an American professional basketball team based in Atlanta.

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Barbara Montgomery

Barbara Montgomery (born June 25, 1939) is an American stage, television and film actress, and theatrical and film director.

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Baruch College

Baruch College (officially the Bernard M. Baruch College) is a public college in New York City.

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Bill Gunn (writer)

William Harrison Gunn (July 15, 1934 – April 5, 1989) was an American playwright, novelist, actor and film director.

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Black Enterprise

Black Enterprise (stylized in all caps) is an American multimedia company.

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Black Sports

Black Sports was a monthly magazine which was launched in April 1971 in New York City and closed later that decade.

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Black Theatre Alliance

The Black Theatre Alliance (BTA) was a federation of African American theater companies in New York City that was founded in 1971 by playwrights Delano Stewart, Hazel Bryant, and Roger Furman.

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Boys & Girls Clubs of America

Boys & Girls Clubs of America (BGCA) is a national organization of local chapters which provide voluntary after-school programs for young people.

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Camille Billops

Camille Josephine Billops (August 12, 1933 – June 1, 2019) was an African-American sculptor, filmmaker, archivist, printmaker, and educator.

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Cecil Taylor

Cecil Percival Taylor (March 25, 1929April 5, 2018) was an American pianist and poet.

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Charles "Charlie" Mays Sr. (February 3, 1941 – April 11, 2005) was an American Olympic athlete and Democratic Party politician who represented the 31st Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly.

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Chester Higgins Jr.

Chester Higgins Jr. (born November 1946) is an American photographer,, BrotherMen, PBS.

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City College of New York

The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a public research university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City.

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David Dinkins

David Norman Dinkins (July 10, 1927 – November 23, 2020) was an American politician, lawyer, and author who served as the 106th mayor of New York City from 1990 to 1993.

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Dean Meminger

Dean Peter "The Dream" Meminger (May 13, 1948 – August 23, 2013) was an American basketball player and coach.

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Democratic National Committee

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is the principal committee of the United States Democratic Party.

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Dianne McIntyre

Dianne McIntyre (born July 18, 1946) is an American dancer, choreographer, and teacher.

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Ed Bullins

Edward Artie Bullins (July 2, 1935November 13, 2021), sometimes publishing as Kingsley B. Bass Jr, was an American playwright.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.

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Gilbert Moses

Gilbert Moses III (August 20, 1942 – April 15, 1995) was an American director.

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Glynn Turman

Glynn Turman (born January 31, 1947) is an American actor, director, writer, and producer.

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Gordon Davis

Gordon Jamison Davis (born August 7, 1941) is an American lawyer and civic leader.

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Hayden, Stone & Co.

Hayden, Stone & Co. was a major American securities firm founded in 1892 by Charles Hayden and Galen L. Stone.

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Herb Douglas

Herbert Paul Douglas Jr. (March 9, 1922 – April 22, 2023) was an American athlete who competed mainly in the long jump.

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Jean Blackwell Hutson

Jean Blackwell Hutson (born Jean Blackwell; September 7, 1914 – February 4, 1998) was an American librarian, archivist, writer, curator, educator, and later chief of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

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John Oliver Killens

John Oliver Killens (January 14, 1916 – October 27, 1987) was an American fiction writer from Georgia.

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John Rhoden

John W. Rhoden (March 13, 1918 - January 4, 2001) was an American sculptor from Birmingham, Alabama.

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José Angel Figueroa

José Angel Figueroa (born November 28, 1946) is a Puerto Rican poet, actor, author, editor, and a professor in the Humanities who has published poetry, fiction, and drama in the United States.

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June Jackson Christmas

June Jackson Christmas (June 7, 1924 – December 31, 2023) was an American psychiatrist.

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Leonard Jeffries

Leonard Jeffries Jr. (born January 19, 1937) is an American political pseudo-scientist, Black supremacist, and former academic.

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Linda Goode Bryant

Linda Goode Bryant (born July 21, 1949) is an African-American documentary filmmaker and activist.

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Marcia Ann Gillespie

Marcia Ann Gillespie (born 10 July 1944) is an African-American magazine editor, writer, professor, media and management consultant, and racial and gender justice activist.

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Mary Lou Williams

Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer.

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Maxine Sullivan

Maxine Sullivan (May 13, 1911 – April 7, 1987), born Marietta Williams in Homestead, Pennsylvania, United States, was an American jazz vocalist and performer.

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Miguel Piñero

Miguel Piñero (December 19, 1946 – June 16, 1988) was a Puerto Rican born American playwright, actor and co-founder of the Nuyorican Poets Café.

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NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

The NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (NAACP LDF, the Legal Defense Fund, or LDF) is an American civil rights organization and law firm based in New York City.

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Nathan Huggins

Nathan Irvin Huggins (January 14, 1927 – December 5, 1989) was a distinguished American historian, author and educator.

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New York Amsterdam News

The Amsterdam News (also known as New York Amsterdam News) is a weekly Black-owned newspaper serving New York City.

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New York Knicks

The New York Knickerbockers, shortened and more commonly referred to as the New York Knicks, are an American professional basketball team based in the New York City borough of Manhattan.

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New York State Division of Human Rights

The New York State Division of Human Rights is a New York State agency created to enforce the state's Human Rights Law.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City, United States.

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New York University College of Dentistry

The New York University College of Dentistry is the dentistry school of New York University.

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NYC Health + Hospitals

NYC Health + Hospitals, officially the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), operates the public hospitals and clinics in New York City as a public benefit corporation.

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Orde M. Coombs

Orde Musgrave Coombs (June 3, 1939 – September 1, 1984) was an African-American writer and editor.

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PepsiCo

PepsiCo, Inc. is an American multinational food, snack, and beverage corporation headquartered in Harrison, New York, in the hamlet of Purchase.

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Raisin (musical)

Raisin is a musical with music by Judd Woldin, lyrics by Robert Brittan, and a book by Robert Nemiroff and Charlotte Zaltzberg.

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Realidades (TV series)

Realidades is a PBS TV series of 30 minute documentary and arts programming, showcasing Hispanic artists, which aired on WNET Channel 13 New York from 1975 to 1977.

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Robert Earl Jones

Robert Earl Jones (February 3, 1910 – September 7, 2006), sometimes credited as Earl Jones, was an American actor and professional boxer.

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Romare Bearden

Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988) was an American artist, author, and songwriter.

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Roscoe C. Brown Jr.

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Rutgers University

Rutgers University, officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey.

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Short Eyes (play)

Short Eyes is a 1974 drama written by playwright Miguel Piñero.

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Stanley Cowell

Stanley Cowell (May 5, 1941 – December 17, 2020) was an American jazz pianist and co-founder of the Strata-East Records label.

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Strata-East Records

Strata-East Records is an American record company and label specialising in jazz founded in 1971 by Charles Tolliver and Stanley Cowell with the release of their first recording Music Inc. The label released over 50 albums in the 1970s.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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Virginia Capers

Eliza "Virginia" Capers (September 22, 1925 – May 6, 2004) was an American actress.

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Vy Higginsen

Vy Higginsen is an American theater producer, playwright, former disc jockey, and radio and television personality.

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W. Haywood Burns

William Haywood Burns (June 15, 1940 – April 2, 1996) was an American lawyer, author, professor, civil rights activist, the second dean of the City University of New York Law School (he served from 1987 until 1994) and a Civil Rights Movement leader.

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WFAN (AM)

WFAN (660 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to New York, New York, carrying a sports radio format known as "Sports Radio 66 AM and 101.9 FM" or "The Fan".

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William Greaves

William Garfield Greaves (October 8, 1926 – August 25, 2014) was an American documentary filmmaker and a pioneer of film-making.

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WNYU-FM

WNYU-FM (89.1 FM) is a college radio station owned and operated by New York University. Soul of Reason and WNYU-FM are new York University.

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Woodie King Jr.

Woodie King Jr. (born July 27, 1937) is an American director and producer of stage and screen, as well as the founding director of the New Federal Theatre in New York City.

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York College, City University of New York

York College is a public senior college in Jamaica, Queens, New York City, United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_of_Reason

Also known as The Soul of Reason.

, Raisin (musical), Realidades (TV series), Robert Earl Jones, Romare Bearden, Roscoe C. Brown Jr., Rutgers University, Short Eyes (play), Stanley Cowell, Strata-East Records, The New York Times, United States, Virginia Capers, Vy Higginsen, W. Haywood Burns, WFAN (AM), William Greaves, WNYU-FM, Woodie King Jr., York College, City University of New York.

Soul of Reason, the Glossary

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See also

1970s American radio programs

1971 radio programme debuts

1980s American radio programs

1986 radio programme endings

African-American radio

Radio in New York City

References