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Action Speaks
looks at contemporary issues through the lens of history by using under-appreciated dates of the twentieth century that have changed America.
Join host Marc Levitt and guest panelists
for some old-fashioned community exchange in the
heart of downtown Providence’s arts and cultural district.
June 18, 2009 4:44 PM
Our Advisory Board meeting to finalize our fall '09 topics the other night was like a spicy Thai dinner, it burns your tongue, but you want it to continue. We develop our season mostly through consensus. I come up with...
June 18, 2009 5:27 PM
I'm at a stage in my preparations for Action Speaks that I return to every year; too many ideas about where to take each discussion. Each topic stares at me like a Maurice Sendak monster, daring me to pull it...
June 29, 2009 1:02 PM
I'm having trouble deciding how to 'look' at the Highlander Center. This community-based adult education center in the Appalachians was also influential in the Civil Rights movement of the 40's 50's and 60's. I know that I want to connect...
Our Advisory Board meeting to finalize our fall '09 topics the other night was like a spicy Thai dinner, it burns your tongue, but you want it to continue. We develop our season mostly through consensus. I come up with...
An American prelude to Hitler or to the Human Genome Project...perhaps both? Eugenics was a global movement popular in the United States at the turn of the last century. Proponents believed that knowledge about hereditary genetics could be used...