Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) spoke with Carmen Yulín Cruz, the former mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, about how women can effect change in a post-coronavirus pandemic America. They …
210 viewsProfessor Daniel Czitrom talked about progressive era muckraking journalist and reformer Jacob Riis. Mr. Riis' photos of conditions in New York City tenement housing during the Gilded Age we…
2,574 viewsRachel Maddow talked about the embrace in the United States of perpetual war as a way of life and looked at how views of war - and the business of war - have changed since Vietnam. She respo…
2,057 viewsAlan Weisman talked about his book The World without Us, published by Thomas Dunne Books. His book describes what would happen to the Earth if humans suddenly disappeared. The book was based…
491 viewsKate Michelman talked about her book With Liberty and Justice for All: A Life Spent Protecting the Right to Choose, published by Hudson Street Press. In her book, Ms. Michelman wrote that 80…
193 viewsDoris Haddock talked about her book Granny D: Walking Across America in My 90th Year, published by Villard. Ms. Haddock began the journey as a personal attempt to raise awareness about the i…
537 viewsQueen Noor received an honorary doctorate degree and addressed the 2002 graduates of Mount Holyoke College on women’s issues, the Middle East conflict and other topics.
238 viewsJanet McDonald talked about her autobiography, Project Girl, published by Farrar Straus & Giroux. She described her struggles as a black woman with a genius IQ who grew up in the Brooklyn p…
2,192 viewsAuthor Anna Quindlen spoke to graduates offering encouragement and advice as they prepared to join the workforce.
6,368 viewsGwendolyn Parker talked about her book, Trespassing: My Sojourn in the Halls of Privilege, published by Houghton Mifflin Company. The book is about Ms. Parker’s life as a black person who wa…
171 viewsA BOOK TV recording of a lecture that took place at MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE, South Hadley, MA., presented by Adolph Reed, Author, “W.E.B. Dubois, and American Political Thought: Fabianism and …
845 viewsPanelists discussed the changes to news reporting and their responsibilities. They answered audience questions.
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