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WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - March 25, 2013
Walter Dean Myers is a giant of American young adult literature. He's won the Newberry Medal, and was a finalist for the National Book Awards three times. Myers' books are gritty and realistic, exploring a side of American life not often seen in kids books. Now Myers is the US Ambassador for Young People's Literature - his job is to travel America promoting literacy. Myers is coming to Champaign March 26th - he joins us to discuss developing good reading habits, and why literacy is so important for low income Americans.
WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - February 14, 2013
There is such a wealth of art about love - romantic, unrequited, familial, heartbroken - that it would seem almost impossible to catalogue it all. The Poetry Foundation in Chicago is making an effort - they've created a list of almost 100 notable love poems for Valentine's Day. Catherine Halley, the editor of the Poetry Foundation online joins us to go over some of her favorites.
WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - July 23, 2012 ~
Joseph Torres, Senior External Affairs Director, Free Press; co-author, News for All The People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media
When we think about the history of media in America, it’s easy to think of it in terms of technology – from the rise of newspapers to radio to television to the Internet and beyond. Or you could look at media as a vehicle for reflecting and even contributing to social change – from Colonial-era newspapers encouraging the American Revolution to TV cameras bringing the civil rights movement into 1960s-era living rooms. But there are other ways to examine media in America. Joseph Torres, along with co-author Juan Gonzalez, recently placed the history of media under a different sort of prism – that of race. In their book News for All The People: The Epic Story of Race and the American Media, Torres and Gonzalez explore how America’s racial divisions have played a major role in the development of our media system. Joseph Torres will appear at this week's Grassroots Radio Conference in Champaign/Urbana.
WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - April 24, 2012 ~
My Formula for 14 Years of Average Annual Double Digit Growth, Restoring The Harlem Globetrotters, and Changing Business Perceptions Along the Way
Mannie Jackson, President of Boxcar Holdings LLC; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Naismith Memorial Basketball of Fame; Chairman of the Board and Owner of the Harlem Globetrotters;and Chairman and a Founder of the Executive Leadership Council.
WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - February 03, 2012 ~
Stephen Lyons, Writer, a two-time recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Fellowship for prose writing and a Pushcart Prize nominee; author of three books, most recently The 1,000-Year Flood: Destruction, Loss, Rescue and Redemption Along the Mississippi River
WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - November 10, 2011 ~
Bea Nettles, Artist; Professor Emerita, University of Illinoi
WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - June 12, 2011 ~
With Brooke Gladstone (Co-Host of NPR's "On the Media")
WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - March 05, 2010 ~
With Sarah U. Wisseman, Ph.D (Director, Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials (ATAM), a unit of The Illinois State Archaeological Survey (ISAS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - March 04, 2010 ~
With Andrea Jones (Author, former Producer-Director, Writer and Manager for CBS and PBS)
WILL - The Afternoon Magazine - January 05, 2010 ~
With Nina Sankovitch, J.D. (Founder of ReadAllDay.org)
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