Africa Today – April 1, 2024
A weekly news program providing information and analysis about Africa and the African Diaspora, hosted by Walter Turner.
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Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice. Israeli and US officials hold a virtual meeting over planned Rafah military operation. Florida’s Supreme Court upholds the state’s 15 week ban on abortion. Portion of Highway 1 collapses after heavy weekend rains, stranding some drivers. California … Continued
Flashpoints – April 1, 2024
An award winning front-line investigative news magazine, that focuses on human, civil and workers right, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition
Dalit American activist Thenmozhi Soundararajan ties Dalit oppression to fights for liberation among Black, Indigenous, Latinx, femme, and Queer communities, examining caste from a feminist, abolitionist, and Dalit Buddhist perspective. We speak with her about her new book, The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition. Caste—one of the oldest … Continued
Background Briefing – April 1, 2024
New Evidence on “Havana Syndrome” Links the GRU’s Assassination Unit 29155 to the Mysterious Attacks on U.S. Officials and Their Families We begin with revelations from a joint investigation by CBS’ 60 Minutes, Der Spiegel, and The Insider that the AHI (Anomalous Health Incidents) known as “Havana Syndrome,” which incapacitated a number of high-ranking U.S. … Continued
1/1/24 The “Why” of Public Health
Everyone knows what physicians do. We go to them when we’re sick, they examine us and prescribe a treatment. In this case, we’re the patient. But what happens when the patient isn’t a single individual, but a community, a society, a nation, or perhaps even the world? What happens when the healing that most needs to occur … Continued
Womens Magazine – April 1, 2024
This hour long radio program presents and discusses women’s lives and issues globally and locally from a radical, multiracial, feminist, mujerist, womanist perspective.
The pandemic highlighted the vital importance of care work—whether childcare, nursing home care, medical care or schooling – and the struggles many people face to get sufficient care. Would more public investment solve the crisis? Historian Premilla Nadasen argues that the problem lies with contemporary capitalism itself, as care has become an enormous arena for … Continued
Live Taping with the Father of Bad Faith Insurance Law
On this week’s episode, Ralph welcomes trailblazing attorney William Shernoff to discuss predatory insurance practices and how consumers can protect themselves. This special episode was co-presented by The American Museum of Tort Law and was recorded in front of a live virtual audience. William Shernoff is the founding partner of Shernoff Bidart Echeverria, a law … Continued
Guest: Jean Pfaelzer is a public historian, commentator, and professor of American studies at the University of Delaware. Her books include Driven Out: The Forgotten War Against Chinese Americans; Rebecca Harding Davis: Origins of Social Realism; The Utopian Novel in America; and her latest, California, a Slave State.