Diane Orson
Special CorrespondentDiane Orson is a special correspondent with Connecticut Public. She is a longtime reporter and contributor to National Public Radio. Her stories have been heard on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Here and Now; and The World from PRX. She spent seven years as CT Public Radio's local host for Morning Edition.
Diane received a regional 2024 Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Writing by the Radio Television Digital News Association. She was awarded a 2023 New England Emmy for CUTLINE | Antisemitism Rising: Bearing Witness Then and Now, which she co-produced and hosted.
Her radio story about an 83-year old atomic veteran placed first in the Public Media Journalists Association 2021 national arts awards. She is the co-recipient of a 2021 Edward R. Murrow Award for a video based on that story.
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Former Polish President Lech Walesa spoke Tuesday at a World Affairs Council forum in Hartford. He talked about the Ukrainian refugee crisis in Poland and the Russian threat. -
Samson Occom was sent to Europe to raise funds for a school for Native American students, but the money was diverted to found Dartmouth College. Now a step toward reconciliation.
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The Mohegan Tribe long wanted Dartmouth College to return a collection of Samson Occom’s handwritten papers. -
“I sincerely hope this gesture will be one more step in our reconciliation for the disappointment Occom experienced,” the Dartmouth College president said.
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Samson Occom was the first Native American student of Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College. In the 1760s, at Wheelock's urging, Occom traveled to Europe to raise funds for what he believed would be a school for Native American students. But Wheelock diverted the funds toward a college for white settlers, later named Dartmouth College. The documents to be repatriated include what is believed to be the earliest example of written Mohegan language. -
This hour on Disrupted, a conversation with NAACP Connecticut President Scot X Esdaile about the role the NAACP plays in our modern society. Plus, how student loan debt is hurting people of color. -
Yale University Art Gallery delivered stolen artifacts valued at more than $1 million to the New York District Attorney's Office. This comes amid a long-running investigation into suspected art trafficker Subhash Kapoor.
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Yale Professor Harold Hongju Koh talks about his recent argument on behalf of Ukraine at the International Court of Justice at The Hague. -
Vasyl Matsyuk, a Ukrainian-American student at Yale Divinity School, shares what his life has been like since the Russian invasion. He also talks about the role of faith in the conflict. -
Tenor saxophonist Javon Jackson, director of the Jackie McLean Institute of Jazz at the University of Hartford, is releasing a CD called "The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni." It features his jazz renditions of gospel hymns and spirituals picked by poet Nikki Giovanni.
