Seven-time NBA All-Star Walt Frazier says that baskeball has taken a turn for the worse since he retired in 1980. On today's show, Frazier explains how the game has changed, from bigger athletes to multi-million dollar deals. Also: the letters of muckraking journalist Jessica Mitford. Then a former Peace Corps volunteer talks about her two years working with a midwife in a remote village in Mali. And a look at whether the current foster care system is setting up kids to fail. Each year, tens of thousands of teenagers are released from the foster care system without high school degrees or strong family relationships.
Walt Frazier on How Basketball Has Changed
Seven-time NBA All-Star Walt Frazier says that baskeball has taken a turn for the worse since he retired. In his recent book, The Game Within the Game, Frazier ponders modern basketball, from players' increased size to how multimillion dollar deals have changed the game.
The Game Within the Game is ...
The Letters of Jessica Mitford
Muckraking journalist Jessica Mitford rejected her aristocratic English roots and moved to America, where she became a communist, a union organizer, and a civil rights activist. Editor Peter Sussman and Jessica Mitford's daughter Constancia "Dinky" Romilly talk about Decca, a new collection of Mitford’s letters.
Decca is available for purchase ...
A Midwife in Mali
When Kris Holloway was 22, she went to the remote village of Nampossela in Mali, West Africa for a 2-year stint as a Peace Corps volunteer. She worked with the village midwife Monique, and saw firsthand the hopes and hardships of the women there. Her recent book is Monique and ...
How the Foster Care System Fails Teens
Each year, tens of thousands of teenagers are released from the foster care system without high school degrees or strong family relationships. Betsy Krebs and Paul Pitcoff explain why they feel the current system is setting kids up to fail, and what can be done to change it. Ms. Krebs ...
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