BENJAMIN MCHIE:

An Inventory of His RAP Weekly Radio Talk Show Audio Collection at the Minnesota Historical Society

Sound and Visual Collection

Part or all of this collection is restricted.
For details, please see restrictions.


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Creator: Mchie, Benjamin, 1948-.
Title:RAP weekly radio talk show audio collection.
Dates:undated, 1975-1977.
Language:Materials in English.
Abstract:Audio collection of RAP (Radio and People), a weekly radio talk show hosted and produced by Benjamin Mchie. The show aired weekly on Sunday nights at 7:00pm on KQRS. Mchie focused on diversity and the African American experience through interviews, poetry reading, speeches, discussion of current events, and historical biographies.
Quantity:12 master audiotape reels; 10 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 7 master audiotape reels; 7 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 93 submaster audio files; digital, WAV, 88 user audio files; digital, MP3, and 5 user audio files on 1 CD: digital, MP3.
Location:III.58 : See Detailed Description for shelf locations.

Expand/CollapseBIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Benjamin Edwards Mchie was born to Beneta Edwards Mchie and John Mchie, Sr. on September 5, 1948 in Minneapolis. Mchie graduated from Minneapolis Central High School and went on to receive a bachelor's degree in speech communication from California State University, Long Beach. Over the course of his media career he was a radio announcer for many stations, including KQRS, and an independent camera operator for local television stations, ESPN, and others. In addition to his work as an announcer, he has been active in fighting for racial justice as well as in directing and producing. Mchie is the founder of the African American Registry, an online database resource of worldwide African American heritage for teaching and learning.


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Use Restrictions:

Interview with members of Jazz Crusaders, interview with musician Chick Corea, interview with musician Ron Carter, interview with musician Phil Upchurch, and advertisement are in copyright - rights-holder(s) unlocatable or unidentifiable. Please consult the reference staff for more information.

Access Restrictions:

Originals are closed. Access and use requires the curator's permission.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Mchie, Benjamin Edwards, RAP Weekly Radio Talk Show Audio Collection. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Location of Submaster Files

Digital submasters are maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage servers and are managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.

Accession Information:

Accession number: AV2015.76

Processing Information:

Digital audio files transferred from the master audiotape reels by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes, February 2018.

Processed by: Karen Obermeyer-Kolb, April 2018

Catalog ID number: 990089357470104294


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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

Titles derived from original physical arrangement of recordings and supplied content notes.

LocationBox
III.58.11Reel 1, 1975. 1 master audiotape reel; 7 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 3 submaster audio files; WAV, 3 user audio files; MP3.
Interview and black poetry reading with Kyanna Murray and Sahu Aiken, September 8, 1975.
092875.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Dick Gregory at the University of Denver, October 5, 1975.
100575.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Mahmoud El-Kati on religion and black people, October 12, 1975.
101275.mp3 Digital version
Location
III.58.2Reel 2, 1975. 1 master audiotape reel; 7 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 4 submaster audio files; WAV, 4 user audio files; MP3.
Speech by Mahmoud El-Kati on "where there is no vision, the people perish," October 19, 1975.
101975.mp3 Digital version
Interview with John L. Sims on welfare and the black community, October 25, 1975.
102675.mp3 Digital version
Interview with Yusef Mgeni on blacks and media, November 2, 1975.
110275.mp3 Digital version
Interview with Harry Davis, Sr. on blacks against the corporate structure, November 9, 1975.
110975.mp3 Digital version
Location
III.58.3Reel 3 and 4, 1975-1976. 1 master audiotape reel; 10 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 5 submaster audio files; WAV, 5 user audio files; MP3.
Interview with jazz keyboardist and writer Herbie Hancock on music and philosophy, November 16, 1975.
111675.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Congressman Ron Dellums on "the proper definition of Nigger," November 23, 1975.
112375.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Dr. Jay Chunn on "mental health, the Black child, and family," December 14, 1975.
121475.mp3 Digital version
Interview with singer Al Jarreau, December 21, 1975.
122175.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Dr. Yosef Ben Jochannon on African contributions to the black experience, Angola, and Kwanzaa, January 4, 1976.
010476.mp3 Digital version
Location
III.58.4Reel 6 and 7, 1976. 1 master audiotape reel; 10 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 7 submaster audio files; WAV, 7 user audio files; MP3.
Discussion of 1973 Hanfi Muslim massacre, Martin Sostre, Eric Benford; and Jesse Jackson speaking on the CIA January 18, 1976.
011876.mp3 Digital version
Interview with R&B radio announcer Pharaoh Black, January 25, 1976.
012576.mp3 Digital version
Interview with Miss Black Minnesota Nancy Campbell, February 1, 1976.
020176.mp3 Digital version
Discussion of Malcolm X and a eulogy by Martin Luther King Jr., February 8, 1976.
020876.mp3 Digital version
Discussion of Cecil Newman and the murder of Eric Benford, February 15, 1976.
021576.mp3 Digital version
Interview with Minneapolis Central High School head basketball coach Al Nuness, February 22, 1976.
022276.mp3 Digital version
Discussion topic of Fear, an audio conception (Funkadelic), February 29, 1976.
022976.mp3 Digital version
Location
III.58.5Reel 8 and 9, 1976. 1 master audiotape reel; 10 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 7 submaster audio files; WAV, 7 user audio files; MP3.
Speech by Imamu Amear Baraka (also known as Amiri Baraka and LeRoi Jones) on black liberation in America, part 1, March 7, 1976.
030776.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Imamu Amear Baraka (also known as Amiri Baraka and Everett LeRoi Jones) on black liberation in America, part 2, March 14, 1976.
031476.mp3 Digital version
Interview with jazz keyboardist Bobby Lyle, March 21, 1976.
032176.mp3 Digital version
Interview with Ice Follies figure skater Atoy Wilson, March 28, 1976.
032876.mp3 Digital version
Interview with boxer Doug Demmings, April 4, 1976.
040476.mp3 Digital version
Interview with radio announcer Morabik Abdul, April 11, 1976.
041176.mp3 Digital version
Interview with R&B radio guitarist Willie Hutch, May 9, 1976.
050976.mp3 Digital version
Location
III.58.6Reel 9, 10, and 11, 1976. 1 master audiotape reel; 10 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 6 submaster audio files; WAV, 6 user audio files; MP3.
Biographical sketch of Paul Robeson, April 17, 1976.
041876.mp3 Digital version
Interview with blues guitarist and singer Albert King, April 25, 1976.
042576.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Shirley Chisholm at Macalester College on United States relations with Third World nations, May 2, 1976.
050276.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Dr. Jay Chunn on strengthening the black child and family, May 16, 1976.
051676.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Julian Bond at Hamline University May 23, 1976.
052376.mp3 Digital version
Discussion of voting rights for black America, May 30, 1976.
053076.mp3 Digital version
Location
III.58.7Reel 12 and 13, 1976. 1 master audiotape reel; 10 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 7 submaster audio files; WAV, 7 user audio files; MP3.
Interview with executive producer of Harambee Shirley Calloway, July 25, 1976.
072576.mp3 Digital version
Black poetry reading with Kyanna Murray and Sahu Aiken, June 13, 1976.
061376.mp3 Digital version
Interview with Sandra Thomas on cross burning in her yard in Bloomington, June 20, 1976.
062076.mp3 Digital version
Interview with director of The Way Spike Moss on racial violence in Minneapolis, June 27, 1976.
062776.mp3 Digital version
Excerpts of James Earl Jones reading Frederick Douglass speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July," July 4, 1976.
070476.mp3 Digital version
Interview with journalist and owner of Insight News Al McFarlane, July 11, 1976.
071176.mp3 Digital version
Thoughts and poetry with Huey Newton, Benjamin Mchie, and Erica Huggins, July 18, 1976.
071876.mp3 Digital version
Location
III.58.8Reel 14 and 15, 1976. 1 master audiotape reel; 10 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 6 submaster audio files; WAV, 6 user audio files; MP3.
Discussion of South Africa, United States involvement, and the modern power struggle, August 1, 1976.
080176.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Abdul H. Farrakhan on the Nation of Islam history, part 1, August 8, 1976.
080876.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Abdul H. Farrakhan on the Nation of Islam history, part 2, August 15, 1976.
081576.mp3 Digital version
Biographical sketch of Marcus Garvey, August 22, 1976.
082276.mp3 Digital version
Biographical sketch of Charlie Parker, August 29, 1976.
082976.mp3 Digital version
Interview with Minneapolis Urban League leader Gleason Glover, part 1, September 5, 1976.
090576.mp3 Digital version
Location
III.58.9Reel 16, 1976. 1 master audiotape reel; 10 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 6 submaster audio files; WAV, 6 user audio files; MP3.
Interview with Minneapolis Urban League leader Gleason Glover, part 2, September 12, 1976.
091276.mp3 Digital version
Biographical sketch of Cannonball Adderley, September 19, 1976.
091976.mp3 Digital version
Discussion of the definition of apartheid and a look at African immigrants in Britain, September 26, 1976.
092676.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Dr. Frances Wellsing on her psycho genetic theory on White Supremacy, October 3, 1976.
100376.mp3 Digital version
Discussion of prisons in America including excerpts from Angela Davis, October 10, 1976.
101076.mp3 Digital version
Interview with Reverend Louis W. Johnson on African history, October 17, 1976.
101776.mp3 Digital version
LocationBox
III.58.102Reel 17 and 18, 1976. 1 master audiotape reel; 10 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 7 submaster audio files; WAV, 7 user audio files; MP3.
Speech by Clarence Mitchell in St. Paul on the NAACP and the election year October 31, 1976.
103176.mp3 Digital version
Interview with Earth, Wind & Fire founder, Maurice White on music and life, November 9, 1976.
110976.mp3 Digital version
Interview with Minnesota Vikings rookie halfback Ronnie Groce, November 14, 1976.
111476.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver at St. Catherine University, part 1, November 21, 1976.
112176.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver at St. Catherine University, part 2, November 28, 1976.
112876.mp3 Digital version
Interview with Miss Black Minnesota Brenda Banks on the pageant, December 5, 1976.
120576.mp3 Digital version
Discussion of four interpretations of slavery, December 26, 1976.
122676.mp3 Digital version
Location
III.58.11Reel 19 and 20, 1976-1977. 1 master audiotape reel; 10 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 7 submaster audio files; WAV, 7 user audio files; MP3.
Interview with Gopher basketball player Mychal Thompson, December 12, 1976.
121276.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Dr. Angela Davis at the 3rd Annual Conference on Women in the Law, January 9, 1977.
010977.mp3 Digital version
Interview with singer Roberta Davis, January 16, 1977.
011677.mp3 Digital version
Discussion of South Africa and first settlement argument, January 23, 1977.
012377.mp3 Digital version
Discussion of Kwanzaa, December 19, 1976.
121976.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Dr. August Nimtz on the current situation in southern Africa, part 1, January 30, 1977.
013077.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Dr. August Nimtz on the current situation in southern Africa, part 2, January 30, 1977.
020677.mp3 Digital version
Location
III.58.12Reel 21 and 22, 1976-1977. 1 master audiotape reel; 10 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 8 submaster audio files; WAV, 8 user audio files; MP3.
Biographical sketch of Frederick Douglass, February 13, 1977.
021377.mp3 Digital version
Interview with President of Minneapolis Urban Coalition and Chairman of Minnesota Board of Human Rights, Earl Craig on police and minorities in the Twin Cities, February 20, 1977.
022077.mp3 Digital version
Biographical sketches of Roland Hayes and Errol Garner, February 27, 1977.
022777.mp3 Digital version
Interview with Minneapolis Central basketball team coach LaVaine Carter and player Andre Griffin, March 6, 1977.
030677.mp3 Digital version
Interview with musician Taj Mahal on music, March 13, 1977.
031377.mp3 Digital version
Biographical sketch of Idi Amin Dada, March 20, 1977.
032077.mp3 Digital version
Discussion of the Citadelle Laferrière and Henri Christophe, March 27, 1977.
032777.mp3 Digital version
Biographical sketch of Martin Luther King Jr., April 3, 1977.
040377.mp3 Digital version
Location
III.58.13Reel 23 and 24, 1976-1977. 1 master audiotape reel; 10 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 7 submaster audio files; WAV, 7 user audio files; MP3.
Interview with Minnesota Kicks Soccer forward Adi Coker, April 10, 1977.
041077.mp3 Digital version
Biographical sketch of Dr. Charles Drew, April 17, 1977.
041777.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Lieutenant Governor George L. Brown to the Twin Cities NAACP on "Are You Ready Black America," part 1, April 24, 1977.
Speech by Lieutenant Governor George L. Brown to the Twin Cities NAACP on "Are You Ready Black America," part 2, April 30, 1977 was not received in the collection.
042477.mp3 Digital version
Interview with Associate Director of the St. Paul Urban League Katie McWatt, May 1, 1977.
050177.mp3 Digital version
Interview with Director of Harambee Group Home Tollie Flippen Jr., May 15, 1977.
051577.mp3 Digital version
Interview with Weather Report member Wayne Shorter, May 22, 1977.
052277.mp3 Digital version
Interview with Shades of Black host, Syl Jones, May 29, 1977.
052977.mp3 Digital version
Location
III.58.14Reel 25 and 26, 1977. 1 master audiotape reel; 10 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 8 submaster audio files; WAV, 8 user audio files; MP3.
Interview with jazz drummer Lenny White, June 5, 1977.
060577.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Dr. Kenneth Johnson at University of Minnesota on Africanisms and communication patterns of black Americans, part 1, June 12, 1977.
061277.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Dr. Kenneth Johnson at University of Minnesota on Africanisms and communication patterns of black Americans, part 2, June 19, 1977.
061977.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Dr. Kenneth Johnson at University of Minnesota on Africanisms and communication patterns of black Americans, part 3, June 26, 1977.
062677.mp3 Digital version
Biographical sketch of Louis Armstrong, July 3, 1977.
070377.mp3 Digital version
Biographical sketch of Mary McLeod Bethune, July 10, 1977.
071077.mp3 Digital version
Speech by Dr. Robert Staples at the Black Student Psychological Association symposium on the voices of black womanhood, July 17, 1977.
071777.mp3 Digital version
Biographical sketch of Langston Hughes, July 24, 1977.
072477.mp3 Digital version
Location
III.58.15Interview with members of Jazz Crusaders, September 12, 1975. 1 master audiotape reel; 7 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 1 submaster audio file; WAV, 1 user audio file on 1 partial CD; MP3.
In copyright.
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III.58.16Interview with musician Chick Corea, December 26, 1975. 1 master audiotape reel; 7 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 1 submaster audio file; WAV, 1 user audio file on 1 partial CD; MP3.
In copyright.
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III.58.17Interview with musician Ron Carter, undated. 1 master audiotape reel; 7 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 1 submaster audio file; WAV, 1 user audio file on 1 partial CD; MP3.
In copyright.
Location
III.58.18Interview with musician Phil Upchurch, undated. 1 master audiotape reel; 7 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 1 submaster audio file; WAV, 1 user audio file on 1 partial CD; MP3.
In copyright.
Location
III.58.19Advertisements, undated. 1 master audiotape reel; 7 inch, 1/4 inch tape, 1 submaster audio file; WAV, 1 user audio file on 1 partial CD; MP3.
In copyright.

Expand/CollapseCATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:
African Americans -- Interviews.
African Americans -- Minnesota.
African Americans and mass media.
Athletes -- Interviews.
Authors -- Interviews.
Interviewing on radio.
Musicians -- Interviews.
Politicians -- Interviews.
Radio talk shows -- Minnesota.
Document Types:
Audio recordings.

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