The US was once a nation of farmers. Now, food growers make up only 2% of the population. We’ll look at how this trend away from small farms is changing the food we eat. Then, Jonathan Kozol tells us that apartheid in our public schools means that millions of black and Hispanic children attend schools where they represent 95 to 99 percent of the students. Finally, veteran broadcast news reporter Andrea Mitchell looks back at her impressive career in her memoir, Talking Back.
Betting the Family Farm
According to the NYC nonprofit Just Food, corporate pressure to “get big or get out” has led to the loss of 67% of US farms since 1920. In her documentary “The Future of Food,” Deborah Koons Garcia, widow of the Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia, takes a closer look at the ...
The Shame of the Nation
In The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America, Jonathan Kozol argues that deteriorating conditions in thousands of public schools has effectively segregated black and Hispanic children to a degree that hasn’t been seen since the late 1960s.
Events:
Jonathan Kozol reading and ...
Events:
Jonathan Kozol reading and ...
Talking Back
Andrea Mitchell has spent over 30 years as a political reporter for NBC. In addition to being one of the first women in broadcast news, she’s also married to one of the most influential men in Washington: Alan Greenspan. She describes her unique life in a new memoir: Talking Back…to ...
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