Black History Month on KERA
January 29, 2015Preview KERA programs honoring Black History Month throughout February
Preview KERA programs honoring Black History Month throughout February
We’ll talk with experts about current research and remedies for the condition that affects more than 50 million Americans.
We’ll talk this hour with journalist Jan Jarboe Russell about Crystal City, a secret South Texas internment camp.
Alexandra Fuller has written several memoirs about her life in Africa. We’ll talk with her about her new book, which details her divorce and questions of cultural identity.
We’ll talk about the artist’s place in society – and why we all suffer when there are fewer of them – with Scott Timberg, author of Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class.
How are international conflicts made and ended behind closed doors? We’ll talk intelligence with the author of “Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America’s Stealth Warfare.”
This hour, we’ll talk about how the outbreak may be linked to the anti-vaccination movement in American with Dr. Seema Yasmin, professor of public health at UTD and a staff writers at The Dallas Morning News.
We’ll talk to the author of America’s Bitter Pill: Money, Politics, Backroom Deals, and the Flight to Fix Our Broken Healthcare System about fixing our healthcare system.
If variety is the spice of life, passion may be a hot chili pepper. We’ll talk with the author of Vital Signs: The Nature and Nurture of Passion on how to revitalize the rat race.
Novelist James Ellroy is known for his novels set in his native Los Angeles, including The Black Dahlia and L.A. Confidential. In October, we talked to him about his latest work set in his home town, Perfidia, which centers around the investigation of a Japanese family’s murder at the outset of American involvement in World War II.