A HKR Artist Spotlight and Poor News Network
We speak with Marisa Ashanti about Oaklanders to Ghana for a cultural exchange and her artistry. Later Poor News Network examines America’s war on disenfranchised communities.
We speak with Marisa Ashanti about Oaklanders to Ghana for a cultural exchange and her artistry. Later Poor News Network examines America’s war on disenfranchised communities.
UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors. UpFront PM is the afternoon edition of UpFront. Pitch us at [email protected].
This Day (Dec 23rd) – Cats Christmas, the tradition being to speak to our cats of our past Mentors, and to tell stories that will bring out the best in humans… Caroline welcomes Apela Colorado…. author of “Woman Between the Worlds,” that we restore the collaborative harmony betwixt all that has been falsely estranged, science … Continued
Susan Hill, author of the classic ghost story, “The Woman in Black,” which is now a play at ACT’s Strand Theatre, discusses her career as a writer. In an interview from 2011, Hollywood legend Rita Moreno talks about her one-woman show and her work in Hollywood. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Political scientist Clyde Barrow explains how Texas, a complex, diverse, urbanized state, is run by a bunch of white guys who think they’re cowboys (rebroadcast of a September interview). And Jesse Eisinger of ProPublica explains why very rich people pay almost nothing in taxes.
We catch up with all things California politics. PLUS: inmate suicides and shocking health conditions at Santa Rita Jail made public by long-time prison-reform activists. PLUS: poet Raymond Nat Turner. Hosted by Kris Welch.
Guest: Kyle Harper is professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire (Princeton); From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity, and his latest, Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History (Princeton).
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.
0:08 Journalist Jaime Lowe on her new book Breathing Fire: Female Inmate Firefighters on the Front Lines of California’s Wildfires 1:08 Historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her latest, Not a Nation of Immigrants: Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion
Democracy Now! is a daily independent award-winning news program hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez.