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An Interview With Tim Owens

Tuesday, January 31st, 2023
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 stories of some of our most formidab [...]
As a part of various endeavors to grow KCSB’s archival collection, Archives Coordinator Lekha Sapers will be bloggin [...]

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

Tuesday, January 17th, 2023
Words By: Lekha Sapers UCSB 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 Bank of America Burning. Station lore has documented this anti-establi [...]
Words By: Lekha Sapers UCSB lore is illustrious – particularly as it is documented from the KCSB lens. Coming from th [...]

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

Thursday, June 09th, 2022
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, highlighting the stories of some of our [...]
As a part of the newly instated Throwback Thursday series, Archives Coordinator Lekha Sapers will be blogging about KCSB [...]

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

Thursday, June 02nd, 2022
    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 late 1960s, she had garnered quite [...]
    Angela Davis is a woman known for her assumption of multiple positions. Perhaps she best fields the identity of [...]

Live Reporting the Bank of America Burning: KCSB Oral History

Thursday, May 26th, 2022
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 through some of Isla Vista’s most tumultuous historical touchpoints. Over the [...]
Words by Lekha Sapers, Archives Coordinator Cy Godfrey is the owner of perhaps the best-known last words in KCSB Hist [...]