Saturday Schools and Hanukkah Stories
Be a fly on the wall at the Rosedale Achievement Center for Girls... the Festival of Lights with Jonathan Sanders... and we hear from dancer Joanna Poz-Molesky.
Mary Wilson
Black, White and Catholic
In 1948, a group of Catholic college students, black and white, confronted the archbishop of New Orleans and demanded to know why the Catholic schools of their Crescent City couldn't desegregate.
Saving the News
Dr. Bill Baker explains how the Internet broke newspapers' business model, and why public media broadcasters should be next in line for a government bail-out.
Wild Man
"Wild Man" is the one-man show of Matthew Maguire's own true-life stories. In this autobiographical work, Maguire is looking for that elusive connection to the audience and a performance that comes from "deeper in the bones."
Portrait of a Radical Lady
Crystal Eastman was active in all the major social movements of the early 20th century -- as a suffragist, labor activist, pacifist, and rebel journalist. Fordham's Amy Aronson is researching Eastman's life story -- an undertaking that has involved three searches for an FBI file and a lot of thinking about human integrity.
Three Student's Stories
"Three Student's Stories". WFUV's Viridiana Castelan reports on an organization that trains kid reporters. Then WFUV's Conor Teehan interviews veteran newsman Brian Williams. Finally, Mary Wilson talks with Keith Alan Howey about his master’s thesis on homeless veterans.
One Student's Survey
Keith Alan Howey still carries his tape recorder with him. It's habit by now, after a year of searching for interviews to include in his Master's thesis on the causes of homelessness among veterans. Howey's a military veteran himself, and a Fordham sociology student who spent the past year asking himself: Why do so many veterans slip through the cracks? And how come I didn't?
I Speak for the Stakeholders
Michael Pirson is a fugitive of the business world and a founding member of the Humanistic Management Network. "Put profits before human well-being at your own peril", he warns.But try making that case to CEO's or an undergraduate finance student.
It’s the Beginning of Something Good
The Internet has shaken the foundations of both politics and news. Are colleges next? So says Zephyr Teachout, former director of online organizing for Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign. Then, a story of getting started--from journalist Beth Knobel.
Sizing Up the Sierra Leone; the Poets of Kundiman
Melissa Labonte went on a 10-day research trip to Sierra Leone. She came back with a shakedown survival story and a renewed distaste for the movie "Blood Diamond." Also, Sarah Gambito on the Kundiman Asian American Poetry Retreat, and how it all began. Influences include: Donald Trump.
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