- -: Education Worse Since Desegregation? - Marian Wright Edelman
August 18, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/01/Marian_Wright_Edelman_The_Cradle_to_Prison_Pipeline Marian Wright Edelman, President and Founder of the Children's Defense Fund, contends that, in some ways, the American education system is worse now than it was when it was segregated. "We were not a...
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- -: Drug War's Racist Roots? - Ethan Nadelmann
September 17, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/09/CONNECTIONS_Ethan_Nadelmann_on_Legalizing_Drugs Ethan Nadelmann delves into the history of drug prohibition and its relation to racism and class segregation. "The distinction between which drugs should be legal and which drugs should be illegal had es...
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- -: Does Race Drive Opportunity? - John Powell
September 18, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/09/07/POWER_John_A_Powell_on_Opportunity_and_Race John A. Powell, head of the Kirwan Institute, discusses the differing opportunity structures found within minority communities. "Opportunity in this country is deeply, profoundly racialized," says Powell. -...
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- -: Photographing the Extraordinary within the Ordinary - Tamara Dean
October 9, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/04/04/Tamara_Dean_and_Dean_Sewell_on_Photography Photographer Tamara Dean displays photographs she took during the decade following her high school graduation. The goal of her work, she says, is to provide insight into a small moment of interaction. ----- ...
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- -: Cornel West: The End of Reagan Era Politics
October 21, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/09/Brother_West_Living_and_Loving_Out_Loud Cornel West condemns what he calls Ronald Reagan's "indifference to poor people" and claims the former president ushered in a new set of "vicious policies" towards minorities and the underprivileged. "The whole ...
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- -: Richard Dawkins - Applying Darwinian Evolution to Physics
October 29, 2009 (over 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/07/Richard_Dawkins_The_Greatest_Show_on_Earth Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins weighs the possibilities of the anthropic principle as it applies to physics. He also presents the theory that universes are bound to Darwinian selection, passing on tra...
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- -: Dana Priest on Backlash from Uncovering CIA Secret Prisons
April 28, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/04/17/Logan_Symposium_Consequences_of_Investigative_Reporting Washington Post journalist Dana Priest describes death threats and backlash she received after reporting on the CIA's use of secret prisons to detain terrorism suspects. ----- A panel of journa...
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- -: The Cocaine Trade: Who's Really Bumping Up Prices?
May 13, 2010 (almost 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/05/10/Nils_Gilman_Deviant_Globalization Author Nils Gilman traces cocaine sales from production to retail, noting the profit margin is highest at the stage of U.S. importation due to increased regulatory pressure from narcotics agents. The DEA "think they'r...
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- -: The Milky Way's Collision Course with Andromeda
December 13, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/11/07/Wonderfest_2010_Do_We_Understand_the_Universe UC Berkeley Astronomy Professor Chung-Pei Ma shows how spiral galaxies occasionally merge with one another, which, she says, will eventually happen to our own Milky Way Galaxy when it collides with the And...
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- -: What Would Happen If You Fell into a Black Hole?
January 19, 2011 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/10/27/Ian_Morison_Why_Not_to_Fear_Black_Holes British astronomer Ian Morison describes a bleak, yet comical, prognosis should you happen to fall into a black hole. Dubbed "spaghettification" extreme gravitational forces would quickly stretch your body like ...
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