Maria Suarez tells the story of the five years she spent as a slave and the twenty three years she spent in prison for a murder she didn't commit. Today, Maria is active with a group called "Free the Slaves."
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day has us thinking about America's Great Migration -- the epic struggle for freedom that saw six million people migrate north from the southern states before the civil rights era. So we're revisiting Steve Paulson's conversation with Isabel Wilkerson re. her book, "The Warmth of Other Suns."
Robert Weinberg wrote “The Computers of Star Trek” with co-author Lois Gresh. Weinberg says that Star Trek was ambivalent about computers, and wildly inconsistent about how they worked.
John Wroblewski, Sr. tells Anne Strainchamps about the day he got the news that his son, Marine 2nd Lt. John "JT" Wroblewski, Jr. was killed in Iraq.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi is the translator of "The Adventures of Amir Hamza" and "Hoshruba."
The iconic violinist of his generation, Joshua Bell tells Steve Paulson about his involvement with composer John Corigliano for "The Red Violin" film and subsequent concert pieces.
Kamran Pasha has written a novel called "Mother of the Believers." It's the story of Muhammad's third wife, Aisha, whom he married when she was very young.
Charles Monroe-Kane prepared a profile of singer/songwriter Neko Case, a country singer who's haunted by the American Dream.
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