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Maya Angelou: Responsibility to Speak for Freedom's Sake
May 9, 1982
Maya Angelou writer

Maya Angelou receives the Ford Hall Forum's 1982 Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award.

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Human Rights | Maya Angelou | African American | Non-Fiction | Race
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Your Mental Health at Work
Rosalynn Carter
01:24:02
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter and an expert panel discuss workplace conditions that can greatly affect employees' mental health and on-the-job productivity.
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You Want Fries With That?
Prioleau Alexander
00:49:23
Prioleau Alexander tells what it was like when he walked away from a lucrative career as an advertising executive, seeking a life. His jobs included pizza deliveryman, ice cream scooper, construction worker, ER tech, fast food jockey, and even cowboy on a Montana dude ranch.
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Yaron Brook: Why the Forward Strategy of Freedom Had to Fail
Yaron Brook
01:47:29
As an expert on foreign policy and the Middle East, Yaron Brook is interviewed for his answers to a range of questions related to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the war in Iraq, the Iranian threat and Totalitarian Islam and terrorism.
Writing on the Walls: American Prison Writing
H. Bruce Franklin
01:40:59
PEN New England's Freedom-to-Write (FTW) Committee, and the Cambridge Forum, host Writing on the Walls, a panel discussion about writing in, from, and about American prisons.
Writers Among Us: Seth Jacobs
Seth Jacobs
01:06:37
Seth Jacobs argues that a midcentury religious revival in America, as well as policymakers' racist perceptions of Asians, led the United States to support the disastrous, autocratic Diem regime in South Viet Nam.
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Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
Thomas Frank
00:55:44
Thomas Frank, The New York Times bestselling author of What's the Matter with Kansas?, discusses his new book, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule.
Image of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Ballantine Books (2009)
Binding: Mass Market Paperback, 304 pages
Image of Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well: Poems
Author: Maya Angelou
Publisher: Random House (1997)
Binding: Hardcover, 66 pages
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