Focus
Interviews on global affairs and daily life
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Interview Archives: African-American
Tuesday November 08, 2011, 11:06 AM
Abandoned in the Heartland: Work, Family, and Living in East St. Louis
Jennifer F. Hamer, Ph.D., Associate Professor of African American Studies, University of Illinois
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Community • Cultural Studies • Race/Ethnicity • African-American • United States • Illinois
Wednesday October 26, 2011, 10:06 AM
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
Isabel Wilkerson, Professor of Journalism and Director of Narrative Nonfiction, Boston University; 1994 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Feature Writing
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Biography • Community • Race/Ethnicity • African-American
Friday April 08, 2011, 10:06 AM
Freedom is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle Over Black Family Life from LBJ to Obama
James T. Patterson, Ph.D., the Ford Foundation Professor of History Emeritus, Brown University
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Civil Rights • Community • Family • History • United States history • Politics • Poverty • Race/Ethnicity • African-American
Tuesday January 11, 2011, 11:06 AM
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--a New History of the Cvil Rights to the Rise of Black Power
Danielle L. McGuire, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Wayne State University
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Civil Rights • Gender issues • History • United States history • Race/Ethnicity • African-American • Violence
Monday January 03, 2011, 11:06 AM
Children of Fire: A History of African Americans
Thomas C. Holt, Ph.D., James Westfall Thompson Distinguished Service Professor of American and African American History, University of Chicago
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Diaspora • History • United States history • Race/Ethnicity • African-American • Slavery
Tuesday November 23, 2010, 10:06 AM
"A Call for Change: The Social and Educational Factors Contributing to the Outcomes of Black Males in Urban Schools"
Michael Casserly, Ph.D., Executive Director of the Council of the Great City Schools
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Community • Education • Race/Ethnicity • African-American
Wednesday April 28, 2010, 10:06 AM
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
David Remnick, Pulitzer Prize Winning Writer; The New Yorker Editor
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Biography • Family • Government • History • United States history • Race/Ethnicity • African-American
Thursday March 18, 2010, 10:06 AM
Wrong Place, Wrong Time: Trauma and Violence in the Lives of Young Black Men
John A. Rich, M.D., M.P.H., Chair of and a Professor, Department of Health Management and Policy, Drexel University School of Public Health; Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Social Justice
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Community • Crime • Family • Gender issues • Health • Public Health • Race/Ethnicity • African-American • Violence
Friday February 26, 2010, 11:06 AM
Railroads in the African American Experience: A Photographic Journey
Theodore Kornweibel, Jr., Professor Emeritus, African American History, San Diego State University
Host: David Inge
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Categories: History • United States history • Race/Ethnicity • African-American
Wednesday January 27, 2010, 10:06 AM
Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy
Susan M. Reverby, Ph.D., Marion Butler McLean Professor in the History of Ideas and Professor of Women's Studies at Wellesley College
Host: David Inge
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Categories: Cultural Studies • Government • History • United States history • Race/Ethnicity • African-American
