Listen Live on KKFI
Every Saturday at 2:30pmAbout the Show
WINGS
WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service is an all-woman independent radio production company that produces and distributes news and current affairs programs by and about women around the world.
Founded in the US in 1970, the Feminist Press publishes neglected masterpieces by women of many cultures, countries and races, not only living women, but dead ones, too. In 1992, Howe gave this speech about the origins and the mission of the Press, how they found the authors they published, and how it survived financially. The program includes an update to 2020.
Featured Speaker: In 1964, Florence Howe, taught English at Goucher College, a private women’s college in Maryland, taught black children in a Mississippi Freedom School, and chaired the Modern Language Association’s Commission on the Status of Women. By 1970, she was founding the Feminist Press in collaboration with feminist writers and historians. She has now retired;the new Executive Director is Jamia Wilson.
