Originally broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 29, 2020.
Martha Jones on the few times the Constitution was amended, particularly the Fourteenth Amendment.
Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and Professor of History at The Johns Hopkins University, and a legal a...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Thursday, August 13, 2020.
Angela Saini discusses her book “Superior: The Return of Race Science.”
Saini is an award-winning science journalist, author and broadcaster. Her latest book, Superior: The Return of Race Science, tells the disturbing story of t...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Tuesday, July 28, 2020.
Kimberly Churches will discuss gender equity through a past, present and future lens.
Churches is the chief executive officer of the American Association of University Women and is a leading voice in advancing equity for women and...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Thursday, July 30, 2020.
Carol Jenkins is Co-President and CEO of the ERA Coalition and the Fund for Women’s Equality, sister organizations dedicated to the passage and enactment of the Equal Rights Amendment. The Coalition is comprised of over 100 organiza...
Originally broadcast at 5 p.m. EDT Wednesday, August 26, 2020.
Marlena Malas, Chair/Chautauqua Voice Program
Nicoletta Berry and Jaime Sharp, artistic directors
John Giampietro, technical director
Travis Bloom and Nicole Cloutier, piano
The Chautauqua School of Music Voice Program has something...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Wednesday, July 8, 2020.
Franklin Leonard has been supporting screenwriters and bringing to light screenplays that otherwise would have remained shelved.
Leonard founded and is CEO of the Black List, a well-known force in Hollywood for finding the best un...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Monday, July 6, 2020.
Cedric Alexander joins Michael Hill in conversation on the need for police reform in the U.S.
Alexander served over four decades in law enforcement and public service, Cedric Alexander is the former Chief of Police in DeKalb County, G...
Originally broadcast at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, June 29, 2020.
Cristina Pato and Mazz Swift perform and discuss their collaborative project, INVISIBLE(s).
Pianist Pato and violinist Swift perform solo improvisations on the pieces commissioned for their INVISIBLE(s) project and engage in a musical c...
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. EDT Wednesday, July 1, 2020.
Beth Roach details the Nottoway Tribe’s tradition and efforts to preserve native culture through ancestral seeds.
Roach is a co-founder of the Alliance of Native Seedkeepers, an organization that was formed to preserve ancestral seeds...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Wednesday, July 1, 2020.
To reach a point of an atmospheric drawdown, Katharine Wilkinson says, we need to reduce sources, support carbon sinks and improve society.
Wilkinson, an author, strategist and teacher, serves as the vice president of communicati...
Originally broadcast at 2 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2019.
The Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton details the path forward to reach equality, and recalls his own experience as a Black man in America. Sutton, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, speaks to the status of racial equality in the U.S., d...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Friday, August 16, 2019.
Tarana J. Burke speaks with Chautauqua’s Emily Morris about the role the famous hashtag has played in society. Burke, founder of the Me Too Movement, discusses the impact of #MeToo, her work with Just Be Inc. in Selma and the inspir...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Thursday, July 5, 2018.
David Brooks speaks about politics, tribal mentality and community. Describing himself as “bookish,” he tells stories about his infatuation with writing, consciousness and the “tribal mentality” of politics.
Brooks is an op-ed colu...
Originally broadcast at 2:00 p.m. EDT Wednesday, August 3, 2016.
The Rev. William J. Barber II passionately discusses his view of the Third Reconstruction period in American history — we're living it. He highlights the first two reconstruction periods, and draws the parallels to the current civi...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Thursday, July 4, 2019.
Risa Goluoff details the initial reaction to the fallout of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017. The first female dean of the University of Virgina School of Law, she recalls the Charlottesville rally, neo-Nazi movem...
Originally broadcast at 10:45 a.m. EDT Friday, June 6, 2018.
Amy Chua dissects tribalism and identity politics within the American political spectrum. The John M. Duff Professor of Law at Yale Law School further discusses demagogic politicians, political tribes and threatened demographics.
Ch...
Smithsonian curator Ariana A. Curtis highlights the importance of non-white narratives in museums, speaking from her experience as a museum curator and as an Afro-Latina and African American from Western Massachusetts.
A Fulbright Scholar, Curtis is the first curator of Latinx Studies at the Sm...