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Literature
School Librarians Are Speaking Up!
School librarians are feeling threatened and attacked but are speaking up against Moms 4 Liberty book bans, censorship of libraries and the new "Don't Say Gay" law.
Episode 12, 05.09.2023-Interview with Dr. Carolyn Collins as the Chair of the Jackson House Foundation to Replicate/Preserve the Historical Jackson Rooming House Building at Its Original Site.
A Comic Writer’s Funny Obsession
Mark Haskell Smith Rude Talk In Athens: Ancient Rivals, the Birth of Comedy, and a Writer’s Journey through Greece In ancient Athens, thousands would attend theatre festivals that turned writing into a fierce battle for...
MidPoint: The Bones of The Dozier School
Florida's Dozier School for Boys was open for 111 years in Marianna, Florida, and had a long history of terror, abuse, and disappearances. The school closed in 2011, but the search for the bones and...
MidPoint: Math Book Rejections Don’t Add Up
The Florida Department of Education's rejection of 54 mathematics textbooks just doesn't seem to add up. The claims of "indoctrination" through social-emotional learning, or the alleged inclusion of "prohibited topics" like critical race theory have...
Florida Legislature heading for overtime
Florida’s annual legislative session is going overtime because of an unfinished budget. The legislature was supposed to recess on Friday.
MidPoint: The Age of Censorship with Lois Lowry and Colette Bancroft
The banning of books and the prohibition against teaching real, accurate history used to be the plot of dystopian novels and Nazi policy in Germany in 1933, but now it's part of our reality. WMNF...
April 1, 2021 Good Morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Coming up we’ll revisit an underground American lifestyle – low income workers who travel the country in their trucks and campers trying to stave...
February 9, 2021 Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Ten years ago veteran investigative reporter Jeff Testerman uncovered a phony charity based in Ybor City. It was a charity that raked in tens...
Radioactivity Wednesday: Adam Jentleson on the Filibuster and how it’s Crippling Democracy
February 3, 2021 Good morning. Welcome to WMNF’s Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Yesterday Senate Democrats took a first step toward passing a coronavirus relief bill — with or without GOP support. The Senate voted 50-49 to...
Radioactivity Thursday: Veteran journalist Craig Unger on his latest book “American Kompromat”
January 28, 2021 Good morning, welcome to WMNF’s Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. Donald Trump was cultivated as a Russian asset beginning in the 1980’s according to my guest today. Author Craig Unger makes the revelation...
Radioactivity Wednesday: How Corporations Deny the Truth
November 18, 2020 Barbara Freese is an environmental attorney and a former Minnesota assistant attorney general, currently living in St. Paul. Freese is author of several books, including “Industrial-Strength Denial: Eight Stories of Corporations Defending...
