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Talk Shows
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Dave Wurtzel/Connecticut PublicThis hour, three Connecticut poet laureates join us in the studio to discuss what it means to be an ambassador of poetry. They share some of their work and talk about passing poetry on to the next generation. -
Archibald J. Motley, Jr./The MetWe discuss how people thought about queerness during the Harlem Renaissance and talk to the curator of a recent exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. -
Robert Thom/Michigan Medicine, University of MichiganGetting better reproductive care might start with examining the past. Historian Deirdre Cooper Owens joins 'Where We Live' to discuss her research on the origins of American gynecology and how it ripples into OB-GYN practices today. -
Gioncarlo Valentine/Reginald Dwayne BettsA candid hour with Reginald Dwayne Betts. We talk about what books meant to him when he was incarcerated and how his time in prison still impacts him. -
Kelly Marshall/ProvidedCrystal Wilkinson on how food can connect us to the past. She'll discuss her family's holiday traditions and her ancestors' interracial marriage in the time of slavery. -
Chris RandallAnna Deavere Smith hopes her one-woman shows inspire people to take action. She discusses courage, doubt and her new play 'This Ghost of Slavery.'
Local News
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Partial settlement in CT state trooper's deadly shooting of man holding knife in car with windows upA partial settlement has been reached in a Connecticut State Police trooper's deadly shooting of 19-year-old Mubarak Soulemane. -
She Loves Me is set in 1930s Hungary, but performed at a former middle school gym, now the home of the Lab@ConnCorp in Hamden. -
Milner, who died in November, became both Hartford’s and New England’s first popularly elected Black mayor when he took office in 1981. -
Last year, the USDA’s Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access Program awarded $300 million to 50 projects across the country, and the Connecticut Department of Agriculture was among them. Now, a $2.5 million-dollar program is rolling out in the state. -
Former Hartford Mayor Thirman Milner, the first popularly elected Black mayor in New England, has died, the Connecticut NAACP said on Friday. He was 91.
PBS Features
NPR features
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