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Raising Vibrations against Gender-Based Violence
From native American Sun Dances and Ghost dances, to Irish Ceilis and jazz dancing across-the-color line, people have danced to resist, as well as to celebrate. Around the world a whole lot of women are keeping that tradition alive with mass dancing in the streets on or around VDay, February 14th. ...
Forbidden Broadway , The Thin Place, London Assurance & Lucy Barton, Two On The Aisle with Gross & Blake
Two On The Aisle Broadway Theatre critics Charles Gross & Leslie (Hoban) Blake review: Forbidden Broadway The Next Generation, The Thin Place, London Assurance & My Name is Lucy Barton.
Trump's Wall and the End of the American Frontier
In this episode, Laura interviews author and Yale historian Greg Grandin about his new book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. They explore how America's foundational myth of progress has given way to protectionism. Will opposition to the wall finally...
How the Diversity Industry is Failing and What We Can Do to Fix It
In an era when companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on diversity and inclusion programs, the proportion of African Americans in tech, media, and business leadership roles is stagnating. In her new book, Diversity, Inc. The Failed Promise of a Billion-Dollar Business, award-winning...
The Future Is Public: Special Report from Amsterdam
From Austria to Chile, Lagos to London, people are demanding policies that democratize economies and keep public resources in public hands. In just the last decade, more than 2,400 cities in 58 countries have brought privatized resources back under public control. In this episode, Laura reports from...
Reviews of The Inheritance, Sing Street & Interviews with Maury Yeston & Gerard Alessandrini: Two On The Aisle with Gross & Blake
Two On The Aisle Broadway Theatre critics Charles Gross & Leslie (Hoban) Blake review: “The Inheritance” and “Sing Street.” Plus Maury “Nine” Yeston & Gerard “Forbidden Broadway” Alessandrini discuss their new review, “Anything Can Happen In The Theatre.”
Appropriate Be Damned: Poet Staceyann Chin on her Journey to See Herself as a Poet Worthy of an Anthology
Award-winning poet, performer, novelist, and activist Staceyann Chin has just published her first anthology of poems. She has been featured on Broadway, HBO, and Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam and her latest one woman show, MotherStruck, was adapted for film and premiered at the Tribeca Film...
Puerto Rico: Freedom From Fantasy
What most Americans know about Puerto Rico is based on a colonial fantasy, says journalist and Columbia University professor, Ed Morales. This fantasy, and the reality it obscures, is the subject of his new book, Fantasy Island. In this episode, Laura interviews Morales and scholar/activist Rosa...
This Week on MNN
This week on MNN we celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month