Programming

Dr Washington Hill updates us on local advances and challenges in prenatal care and maternal health

WSLR June Board Meeting and Agenda Announced

This Wednesday, June 11 at 9am, Tom will spend the hour with folk singer and activist David Rovics. We’ll hear some of his newest songs and discuss his work and the power of music in social movements. 

Homelessness is visible in every city in the United States but the number of people on the streets is just the tip of the iceberg according to journalist and anthropologist Brian Goldstone. In his new book, There Is No Place For Us: Working and Homeless in America , he follows families in Atlanta as they […]

This Wednesday, May 28 at 9am, Tom will talk to Elizabeth Minnich, author of  The Evil of Banality – On the Life and Death Importance of Thinking. “People who are not thinking are capable of anything.”

Universal education was envisioned as a great equalizer that would fuel a meritocracy. But like so many American ideals it has been tainted by slavery and the Native genocide. Native boarding schools were founded with the goal of eradicating Native culture. Schools set up during Reconstruction taught the newly freed slaves that obedience would be […]

This Wednesday, May 14 at 9am, Tom will talk to Susanne Hoder of Partners for Palestine and Alicia Koutsoulieris of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Florida. We’ll talk about the history of Palestine and the current situation in the West Bank and Gaza. 

Even when companies freely exploit workers, without effective restraint from the government, there still is power in grassroots organizing.

This Wednesday morning April 30 at nine, Tom will talk to local author Seth Stottlemyer, author of Pathway To a New American Future: Our Best Chance for a National Reset. 

How safe and effective are the drugs we take? Why do Americans pay more for prescription drugs than people in other high-income countries? Jerry Avorn, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, explains why ineffective, dangerous and overpriced drugs make it through the FDA approval process in his new book Rethinking Medications. Tune in on Friday […]