Hour 1: In the 1950s and ’60s, Mississippi developed a secret spy agency charged with preserving segregation. We’ll talk this hour about the impact of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission with Rick Bowers, author of Spies of Mississippi: The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement.
Hour 2: We’ll talk to Leah Vincent this hour about being rejected by her family when she sought to embrace the wider world, which she chronicles in her memoir, Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood.
Hour 1: As part of KERA’s One Crisis Away initiative, we’ll talk with Dwain Schenck, author of Reset: How to Beat the Job-Loss Blues and Get Ready for Your Next Act.
Hour 2: We’ll find out this hour how processed foods have nudged nature off the shelves and how we can reverse the trend with Jeannie Marshall, author of The Lost Art of Feeding Kids: What Italy Taught Me About Why Children Need Real Food.
Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist and gay-rights activist. Ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, we’ll talk to her about her difficult relationship with the country of her birth.
In 2002, David Stuart MacLean woke up on a trip to India to the realization he had no idea who he was or why he was there.
On February 27 at 7pm KERA’s Krys Boyd Moderates Free Public Forum on Asset Poverty in North Texas at Dallas City Performance Hall DALLAS/FORT WORTH – Imagine being so close to the financial edge that a single life event could push you and your family over. According to a study by the Corporation for Enterprise Development, 29 […]
Hour 2: This hour we’ll talk to best-selling author Malcolm Gladwell about his latest book, ‘David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants.’
A new study shows nearly half of Texans don’t have enough cash available to stay above the poverty line for three months after a financial emergency. We’ll find out why the numbers have jumped.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 31, 2014 DALLAS/FORT WORTH – On the February episode of KERA’s CEO, host Lee Cullum talks with Ken Hersh, CEO of NGP Energy Capital Management, who details the company’s oil and gas ventures and shares his strategy of keeping a steady pace in the boom and bust industry. “I don’t like […]
