UpFront delivers a mix of local, state, and international coverage through challenging interviews, civil debates, breaking updates, and in-depth discussions with authors.

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0:08 – Activist and author, Angela Davis, discusses her book: Blues, Legacies and Black Feminism discusses several key early blues artists including Gertrude “Ma” Rainy, Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday to illustrate how black women helped shape feminist historical traditions and were able to tell stories, particularly about the reality of women’s sexual experience through their music. (Recorded in Santa Monica, CA in 1998).

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0:08 – When we create visions of the future, they’re usually visions awash in technology. We can learn a lot more about our future by putting nature back in the foreground, and refocusing on what we already know about how life responds to change. Rob Dunn (@rrobdunn) is the William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor in the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University. His new book is A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species.

FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $150 and receive a copy of Rob Dunn’s A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species.

1:08 – We discuss landscaping for caterpillars with Douglas Tallamy, professor of Entomology and Wildlife ecology at the University of Delaware and co-founder of the Homegrown National Park movement. His latest book is Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach fo Conservation the Starts in Your Yard.

FUND DRIVE SPECIAL – Pledge $150 and receive a copy of Douglas Tallamy’s, Nature’s Best Hope.

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