Stonewall 50: The Sound of Memory
The Stonewall Riots were a flash point in LGBTQ history. After the riots that took place at the Stonewall Inn in June 1969, the LGBTQ civil rights mov...
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Before Stonewall
Aidan Flax-Clark welcomes co-host Jason Baumann, Assistant Director for Collection Development and Coordinator of Humanities and the Library’s LGBTQ I...
Marlon James Gets Nerdy with Kevin Young
Marlon James is a Jamaican novelist and winner of the Man Booker Prize. His recent book Black Leopard, Red Wolf is the first in a epic trilogy that bl...
A History of the Queer Press
The Gay Liberation Front was an organization recognized for publishing the first gay liberation newspaper in the world,"Come Out!". It provided openly...
Erin Lee Carr and Ta-Nehisi Coates Remember David Carr
Documentary filmmaker Erin Lee Carr remembers her father, legendary journalist David Carr, in a moving new memoir, "All That You Leave Behind." Erin L...
How Robert Caro Writes About Power and the Powerless
At age 83, Robert Caro pulls back the curtains on his process, in his new book "Working." He also answers the question he is asked most often: why doe...
Breaking New Ground with Dr. Carla Hayden and Tracy K. Smith
Dr. Carla Hayden is the 14th Librarian of Congress, the first African American and the first woman to hold this position. Tracy K. Smith is the 22nd P...
Jill Abramson and Jane Mayer's Insider Take on the News
The former executive editor of "The New York Times" tells the story of the news industry in her new book "Merchants of Truth." Jill Abramson traces ...
Eliza Griswold Uncovers the Human Cost of Fracking
Journalist, Eliza Griswold just won a Pulitzer Prize and a Bernstein Award for her recent book,"Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of...
Shane Bauer's Undercover Reporting from Inside a Private Prison
Going undercover as a prison guard in Winnifield, Louisiana, journalist Shane Bauer exposes the brutality of for-profit private prison systems, and th...