We celebrate Women's History Month with the iconic voices of Aretha Franklin and Eartha Kitt, pioneering instrumentalists like Bobbi Humphrey, and poets like Maya Angelou, as well as the words of women who've worked for justice and equality, like Shirley Chisholm and Fannie Lou Hamer.
Nightfly #2015.10 Playlist Hour 1 Joan Armatrading "Back to the Night" Joan Armatrading "Barefoot And Pregnant" Dorothy Ashby "Soul Vibrations" Diana Ross "When We Grow Up" Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves" Maya Angelou "Still I Rise" Shirley Chisolm "First African American Woman Elected To Congress" Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings "This Land Is Your Land" Isis "Get Crazy" Bobbi Humphrey "Blacks and Blues" Martha Redbone "God Created Woman" Sweet Honey In the Rock "We Are The Ones" Odetta "Got My Mind on Freedom" Doreen Rappaport, Susan Kempler "Sojourner Truth" The International Sweethearts of Rhythm "Galvanising" Bobbye Hall "Voyeur" Hour 2 Holly Near & Ronnie Gilbert "Harriet Tubman" Nancy Dupree "Self-Praise" Nina Simone "New World Coming" Eartha Kitt "I Want To Be Evil" Blanche Calloway "It Looks Like Susie" Hazel Scott "Honeysuckle Rose" Melba Liston "Pow!" Mary Lou Williams "Surrey with the Fringe on Top" Alice Coltrane "Lovely Sky Boat" Mahalia Jackson "Elijah Rock" Fannie Lou Hamer "The Day of Registration" Sister Rosetta Tharpe "Come By Here" Leontyne Price "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free" Zora Neale Hurston "Oh Buford" The Staple Singers "I'll Take You There" Miriam Makeba "Mama (Mama Been and Over)"