Winning Freedom With A Bloody Summer
June 16, 2014This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer. We’ll look back this hour at the effort to register black voters in Mississippi with historian Bruce Watson.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Summer. We’ll look back this hour at the effort to register black voters in Mississippi with historian Bruce Watson.
While kids are happy to be out of school, the “summer slide” worries both teachers and parents.
Nolan Ryan is one of the all-time greatest athletes to play in North Texas, and this hour Rob Goldman joins us to talk about how the Alvin, Texas, native built his Hall of Fame career.
This hour, we’ll talk to Adam Rogers about the biology, chemistry and physics behind alcohol, which he writes about in his book, “Proof: The Science of Booze.”
As part of KERA’s The Broken Hip series, we’ll talk to a panel of experts this hour about how to prevent hip injuries and how to better care for those who suffer from them.
Peter McGraw, director of the University of Colorado’s Humor Research Lab, joins us this hour to talk about what makes us laugh and his book “The Humor Code: A Global Search for What Makes Things Funny.”
We’ll talk this hour about the recent increase in North Texas earthquakes with SMU seismologist Brian Stump and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Lisa Song of Inside Climate News.
This hour, we’ll speak to Kathy Goolsby and Jorja Gomez about Grand Prairie’s past and present.
See the premiere of a British police drama and revisit a gripping FRONTLINE investigation
40 years ago this October in 1974, KERA premiered Monty Python’s Flying Circus to the delight of a majority of North Texas viewers. Ever since, KERA has been home to the best British television in both the comedy and drama genres. From a drama standpoint, most recently, KERA viewers have shook their fist at the […]