Ask Beatty – 05.08.17

Beatty asks her listeners to take an honest look at their relationships…both personal and professional.   Are your relationships primarily healthy, mutually respectful, supportive and non-judgmental?  Or do you feel like you are on an ever -ending, crazy- making rollercoaster ride with your partner, family, friends and colleagues? My guest today is Gayle Kirschenbaum, an American filmmaker, producer, writer, speaker …

Rebecca Onion – America’s Other Original Sin

Here are three scenes from the history of slavery in North America. In 1637, a group of Pequot Indians, men and boys, having risen up against English colonists in Connecticut and been defeated, were sold to plantations in the West Indies in exchange for African slaves, allowing the colonists to remove a resistant element from their midst. (The tribe’s women …