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A New Yorker cover from Bruce McCall
75 years ago, a white mob lynched two black teenagers in Marion, Indiana. On today’s show, a journalist tells guest host Tony Guida how these murders continue to haunt her hometown. But first, a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning sports columnist Ira Berkow. Plus, New Yorker cartoonist Bruce McCall will be here. And to start it all off, a look at the surprising ways in which gender affects medicine, on Underreported.
Underreported: Gender and Medicine
Until the early 1990s, two-thirds of the research on diseases that affect both men and women was done on men only. But a growing body of evidence shows that men and women react differently to diseases, and to the medicines that treat them. On today's Underreported, we'll examine some of ...
Ira Berkow in Full Swing
In Full Swing, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times sports columnist Ira Berkow looks back on his eventful career.
Events: Ira Berkow will be speaking
Monday, June 12 at 7 pm
The American Jewish Historical Society
15 West 16th Street
For tickets, visit ajhs.org or ...
Events: Ira Berkow will be speaking
Monday, June 12 at 7 pm
The American Jewish Historical Society
15 West 16th Street
For tickets, visit ajhs.org or ...
A Conversation with a Cartoonist
Cartoonist Bruce McCall shares his peculiar brand of offbeat humor, and offers a Canadian perspective on America, in his work for the New Yorker.
A Lynching in the Heartland
On August 7th, 1930, two black teenagers were lynched by a white mob in Marion, Indiana. In Our Town, journalist Cynthia Carr revisits the violence of that night, and investigates the impact the murders had, and still have, on her hometown.
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