1974: It's Pfunky In Here! - Spcl. Gsts. Barbara & Edward (Extra Pfunk to Philip Weightman)

Topics: Black Women vis-a-vis White Women in the feminist community, Funk Music, Claudine (film), Good Times (TV show). (Bonus Artist: hidingtobefound) 1974 ...fyi "Claudine" is free on Youtube: https://youtu.be/tJUiV9Pnwps General News Richard Nixon STILL President. but not for long. Vietnam War: Wrapping up active combat. Feb - Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst kidnapped. 2 months later she participates in a bank robbery. Apr - Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves breaks Babe Ruth's home run record Jul - Watergate scandal: The House Judiciary Committee adopts 3 articles of impeachment, charging President Nixon with obstruction of justice, failure to uphold laws, and refusal to produce subpoenaed material. Aug - Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States. President Gerald Ford is sworn in. Ford later pardons Nixon for any crimes Nixon may have committed while in office. Sep - Stuntman Evel Knievel fails in his attempt to rocket across the Snake River Canyon in Idaho. Oct -The Rumble in the Jungle. Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman to regain the Heavyweight title, which had been stripped from him 7 years earlier. 1974 minimum wage = $2hr/$80wk/$4kyrly - 2018 = $10.50/$420/$21k Avg. House Price = $9,942 Avg. Annual Income = $13,9k Avg. Monthly Rent = $185 Gallon of Gas = 42c Dozen Eggs = 45c 9% unemployment vs Black unemployment 15% Open Comments: Top Pop Singles: "The Way We Were", Barbra Streisand "Seasons in the Sun", Terry Jacks "Love's Theme", Love Unlimited Orchestra Grammy Awards for 1974 ROY: Olivia Newton-John, "I Honestly Love You" AOY: Stevie Wonder, Fulfillingness' First Finale SOY: "The Way We Were", Barbra Streisand New Artist: Marvin Hamlisch Top Grossing Movies Blazing Saddles The Towering Inferno The Trial of Billy Jack Top TV Shows All in the Family Sanford and Son Chico and the Man Debut Shows Feb - Good Times (a spinoff of Maude) (1974–79) Sep - That's My Mama (1974–1975) Open Comments: Black Snapshots Gail Cobb (@24yrs), Black Washington D.C. police officer: The first U.S. woman police officer killed in the line of duty. Maya Angelou: Gather Together in My Name, the second of seven autobiographies. James Baldwin: If Beale Street Could Talk, a love story set in Harlem in the early 1970's. Reader's Digest publishes the first excerpts from Roots in May and June. They said it was an epic work, "destined to become a classic of American literature." Univ. of Penn publishes a study concluding IQ tests are biased towards whites Cicely Tyson 2 Emmys for The Autobiography of Miss Jane. Richard Pryor Emmy for Lily Tomlins TV