WNHH Community Radio

Today on "LoveBabz LoveTalk" host Babz Rawls-Ivy talks with Diane Turner, Michelle Turner, and Shauna Tucker the President of New Haven Chapter of The Girlfriends, Inc.

New Haven municipal labor leader Cherlyn Poindexter and state AFSCME spokesman Larry Dorman offered the union view on how to tackle the current state and local budget crises.

Today on "All Of Us" host Greg Grinberg talks with Caprice Mendez, Strategic Program Manager at the Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, and Barbara Fair & Holly Tucker, New Haven activists for policing reform and justice reform, talking about LEAD (Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion), a model started in Seattle and now being replicated across the country, the CERB (Community Executive and Review Board), and other efforts to make New Haven the example we all know it can be.

New Haven's economic development chief updates listeners on major projects in town, including plans by the Knights of Columbus and the status of the old Coliseum site.

Today on "Law, Life & Culture" host Betsy Kim speaks with Timothy Snyder, Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University, and author of The New York Times and The Washington Post bestseller “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century.”

Today on "Community Spotlight" Rev. Samuel T. Ross-Lee tackles current events, local issues, and national topics.

Today on "LoveBabz LoveTalk" host Babz Rawls-Ivy talks with Ronald W. Thomas, Deputy Director, Connecticut Conference of Municipalities CCM is the state’s largest, nonpartisan organization of municipal leaders, representing towns and cities of all sizes from all corners of the state, with 164 member municipalities.

A federal jury's $20 million award in a sexual abuse case involving a prominent New Haven rabbi sparks a lengthy discussion about how to protect victims, with pundits Babz Rawls-Ivy, Harry Droz, Markeshia Ricks, Joe Ugly, and Norma Rodriguez-Reyes. Other topics include Joe Lieberman as possible FBI chief, New Haven's upcoming budget, and marijuana legalization.

Host Tagan Engel, and more than 40 members of her family traveled to Holland for a holocaust memorial in honor of her grandmother Selma Wynberg Engel and the Wynberg family, who lived there before most of them were murdered by the Nazi's during WWII. Guest Saul Fussiner joins Tagan to discuss their shared history as grandchildren of survivors, and how people and societies try and heal from genocide. Tagan tells her grandparent's story of revolt and survival, and Saul shares about teaching high school students about these issues using the Facing History & Ourselves curricula and techniques.

On this episode, host Lucy Gellman sits down with New Haven Independent Arts Editor Brian Slattery and New Haven Review theater critic Donald Brown to talk about "The Most Beautiful Room in New York," a new musical about New York's cutthroat culinary scene on at Long Wharf Theatre through May 28. Spoiler: if you loved this musical, don't listen to the podcast, because we didn't.