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Babz Rawls-Ivy, Joe Ugly and Markeshia Ricks survey the post-election wreckakge.

Audio from "News is the Foundation: Local Media in the 21st Century," featuring Paul Bass, Editor + Founder of the New Haven Independent, and Will Ginsberg, President of the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. The original panel took place on Thursday Nov. 3 at Creative Arts Workshop in New Haven.

Host Melissa Loucks fills listeners in on the latest LGBT news around the country.

On today's episode of Deep Focus, host Tom Breen and fellow WNHH hosts Allan Appel and Lucy Gellman review Hacksaw Ridge, a new World War II movie from director Mel Gibson that stars Andrew Garfield as American Army medic and battlefield conscientious objector Desmond Doss. For the second segment of the show, Breen talks with Lyric Hall film programmer Joe Fay about his time working at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Dallas-Fort Worth and about two movies that have had a strong influence on his own understanding and love of cinema: Tobe Hooper’s 1974 slasher classic THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, and Joe Dante’s family-friendly 1989 horror-comedy THE ‘BURBS.

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On this episode, hosts Doug Hausladen and Giovanni Zinn welcome Kate Cohen, State Director of the Connecticut Public Interest Research Group (ConnPiRG) and Melanie Perl, campaign organizer with Environmental Connecticut, to talk about Frontier Group's study "50 Steps Toward Carbon-Free Transportation" and how Connecticut residents and policymakers can move toward a low-carbon, low-cost footprint over the next several years.

On this episode, host Alisa Bowens-Mercado brings on guests Mike Howard, TW Dawson, and Tonisha LaVonne Dawson to talk about president-elect Donald Trump's win on Tuesday Nov. 8, and what people of color can expect from him over the next 4 years. During the latter half of the show, Howard also speaks about the importance of November as National Adoption Awareness Month.

Welcome to This Day In Selling The Seats History as your host Allan Appel and co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle of the New Haven Museum time travel back to 1849 when rental of church pews figured as a big part of the revenue of our town's ecclesiastical establishments.

Welcome to This Day In Vets Day History as your host Allan Appel and regular co-pilot Jason Bischoff-Wurstle salute the veterans and the origin of the holiday that originally marked the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918 when armistice was finally declared in the war to end all wars. Few people know of the economic downturn, extreme labor agitation, and Communist scare tactics that seemed to follow right on the heels of peace.

Al Hajj Yusuf Ibn Shah and Yahya Abdul-Shakoor discuss the latest doings at the Abdul-Majid Karim Hasan Islamic Center and its annual community awards luncheon taking place this Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Best Western Inn at 201 Washington Ave. (Today's episode was made possible in part thanks to support from Yale-New haven Hospital.)

Stacey Battat of the PJ Library tells the story of a magical Shabbat dinner with the Cricket and the Ant, and fills us in on her program, which connects families with Jewish books and music.