from the archives

An Interview With Tim Owens

As a part of various endeavors to grow KCSB’s archival collection, Archives Coordinator Lekha Sapers will be blogging about our collection of audio archives. For the remainder of the school year, you’ll get a chance to explore our collection, highlighting the…

Beyond The Burning of the Bank – IV Riots 1, 2 and 3

photo courtesy of Brian Negin Words By: Lekha Sapers U CSB lore is illustrious – particularly as it is documented from the KCSB lens. Coming from the archives coordinator herself, no event embodies the station’s core tenet more so than the February 25, 1970…

blog featured from the archives June 9, 2022

From the Archives: Associated Students Addresses Racial Tension and Inequality in the 1970s

As a part of the newly instated Throwback Thursday series, Archives Coordinator Lekha Sapers will be blogging about KCSB’s collection of audio archives. For the remainder of the school year, you’ll get a chance to explore our 60th Anniversary audio collection,…

blog featured from the archives June 2, 2022

From the Archives: The Black Student Union at UCSB on the Freedom of Angela Davis

https://kcsbweb.as.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/ANGELADAVISRALLY-1.mp3 Angela Davis is a woman known for her assumption of multiple positions. Perhaps she best fields the identity of renowned UC Professor of Philosophy– or stalwart communist leader – or scholar, champion of Black rights, among other honorifics. By the…

blog featured from the archives interviews May 26, 2022

Live Reporting the Bank of America Burning: KCSB Oral History

Words by Lekha Sapers, Archives Coordinator Cy Godfrey is the owner of perhaps the best-known last words in KCSB History: I did not set the bank on fire. As General Manager between 1969 and 1970, Godfrey led the station…