Minnesota's government shuts down while Congress struggles to reach a debt deal. Mark Landler, White House correspondent for The New York Times provides an update on both budget battles.
30 years after the first diagnosis of AIDS, Phill Wilson, founder of the Los Angeles-based Black AIDS Institute gives us a progress report on the disease and assesses the advancements three decades later.
Professor and legal scholar Dorothy Roberts explores the effects of race-based science in her new book, Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century. It’s the first text of its kind to document the development of racial science and biotechnology based on genetics and to map its implications for equality in America.
A session saxophonist at Stax Records at age 16, back in 1960, Booker T. Jones put together The MGs, who went on to become Stax’s house band, defining the label’s sound. In his latest project, “The Road From Memphis”, he incorporates the classic “Memphis sound” in new music with contemporary artists like Cee-Lo Green, Lauryn Hill and The Roots. |
