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("War calls come first!")
Keeping in touch with an incarcerated family member can take a heavy toll—literally. Members of the New York Campaign for Telephone Justice discuss efforts to address the mark-up on collect calls from prison, which can often be as high as 600%. Also: Medicare, Hip Hop, and the controversy in Columbia's Middle East Studies Department.
Medical Security
Jonathan Weisman, Financial reporter for the Washington Post
- on social security and medicare trustees analysis that medicare is in more need of attention
» Mr. Weisman's piece on Medicare in the Washington Post
- on social security and medicare trustees analysis that medicare is in more need of attention
» Mr. Weisman's piece on Medicare in the Washington Post
Word Up to the Shake-Up?
Michaela Angela Davis, Executive Fashion and Beauty Editor, Essence Magazine, on a movement to fight negative images of women in hip-hop music
» Essence's "Take Back the Music" series
» Essence's "Take Back the Music" series
Middle East Struggle on the Hudson
Jennifer Senior, Contributing Editor at New York Magazine,
- on the controversy at Columbia University's Middle East Studies Department that's not contained to campus
» New York Magazine article
- on the controversy at Columbia University's Middle East Studies Department that's not contained to campus
» New York Magazine article
Captive Audience
https://perec.wnyc.org/admin/ Ron Daniels, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights and National Chairperson of the Campaign for a New Tomorrow, a people-of-color-led, multi-racial independent political organization,
- on the New York Campaign for Telephone Justice
» Center for Constitutional Rights
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Denise, a ...
- on the New York Campaign for Telephone Justice
» Center for Constitutional Rights
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Denise, a ...
Negative Hip Hop Imagery
Here are some of the emails we received concerning our segment on sexually explicit imagery in Hip Hop videos.
R&B has gotten out of control and we as a people - African Americans - need to take a stand and say what we are not willing to tolerate. I don't ...
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