Tens of millions of Americans, most of them men, tune in to sports talk radio. Is sports talk a haven for old-school guy talk, including misogyny and gay-bashing? For the final episode in our series…
Two families, both making big investments of time and money to involve their kids in sports. But the investments they’re able to make are very different. In Part 5 of “Contested,” our series on sports,…
Tal Ben-Artzi didn’t worry about being an out bisexual athlete at Penn State. Maybe she would have if she’d known the school’s history. How much have times changed? In Part 4 of “Contested,” our series…
Two small towns, one in Idaho, the other in Upstate New York, try to decide whether to change the nickname of their high school sports teams: The Redskins. Photo: Emblem in the main foyer at…
More from suburban St. Louis, post-Ferguson, on the popular notion that sports unites communities. Can the camaraderie of a team sport make race and class status “disappear” for the kids involved or their parents? Scene…
Can a winning baseball team bring St. Louis together post-Ferguson? John Biewen investigates in the inaugural episode of Scene On Radio, a new podcast of audio stories from the Center for Documentary Studies…
you don't have to "feel" positive to take constructive and positive actions...
RT @HC_Richardson @Jenna_Blum: When I was doing a book tour in Germany in 2017, a German police detective who was a child during Hitler’s regime said to me, “be very careful. Democracy disappears by inches and then quickly.” I believed him then and we are watching it now.
“To limit warming to 1.5°C, 90% of fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground as unburnable carbon.” https://carbontracker.org/reports/unburnable-carbon-ten-years-on/
Today seems like the best time to donate (again) to the Women’s Health Center of WV (https://www.womenshealthwv.org/) and to (re)visit @SceneOnRadio’s 4th season … especially the recommendations on the SCOTUS (Listen to whole season - but min 32 - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/scene-on-radio/id1036276968?i=1000477455236)
