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Terkel interviews anthropologists Richard and Patricia Waterman. This interview is done in two parts.
Discussing "Father Roberts and Vatican III" and interviewing Richard Carbray, Howard Schomer, Joseph Sittler and Gordon Zahn
Discussing "Father Roberts and Vatican III" and interviewing Richard Carbray, Howard Schomer, Joseph Sittler and Gordon Zahn
Professors Adolph Baker, Jurgen Hinze, Richard Lewenton, and Father William Wallace discuss science and politics. The four professors explore question such as whether scientists be involved in political decisions. World War II and Vietnam War are used as examples by the scientists. An earlier interview with scientists Edward Teller and Albert Szent-Gyorgy is played.
Interviewing Martin Bernal, British scholar of Chinese political history. He discusses various aspects of Chinese history, including the Cultural Revolution, communism, and Chairman Mao.
The originator of the Roots ‘N’ Blues series and Grammy winner and nominee Lawrence Cohn discusses his latest work which focuses on the life and times of blues and the musicians that helped the genre become what it is today.
A discussion with sociologist and anthropologist St. Clair Drake at the time of his receiving an honorary award from Roosevelt University on the themes of his convocation address. A fascinating deep-dive into race relations from the Revolution to the Bicentennial, touching on the contradictions, crises, and struggles that led to Black institutions and liberation. Studs plays several excerpts from previous programs with St.
Discussing "Afro-American cross-currents" and interviewing St. Clair Drake, George Shepperson and Professor Lorenzo Turner.
Henry Steele Commager discusses America, American history, and American relations. He also discusses television, historical figures, and wars. (Recorded at the Orrington Hotel in Evanston, Ill.).
As the guest editor of “Critical Inquiry,” Henry Louis Gates, Jr. covered the importance of Black writers and their contributions. Because there is no color blindness is the western world, explained Gates, pointing out that one is a Black writer or a Black doctor is important to society. Gates also covers the issue of race not being solely about Black and white people but rather it has to do with multi-ethnic and multi-cultural people.
Discussing the book "M.I.A., or, Mythmaking in America" (published by L. Hill Books) with the author Professor H. Bruce Franklin.
Edward W. Said talks about the importance of language in shifting perceptions of Middle Eastern people, refutes some opinions about Palestine, identities, and overlapping Eastern and Western cultures.
Sir Bertrand Russell says scientists have a fundamental obligation to let the authorities know if and when what they're working on could lead to or cause a war. Russell claims, no matter the side, there are no winners as a result of war. The world could be a far better place, Russell explained, if it weren't for the fact of man's hatred toward other men. If one lives in the United States and has a grave illness or needs a major surgery, Phyllis Evans says one should not have to go into bankruptcy because of all the costs.
This 1959 broadcast was recorded after Alan Lomax traveled Europe collecting folk music.