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Before Stonewall: Documenting LGBT history Jun 27, 2019

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"Before Stonewall" is an award-winning and groundbreaking documentary from 1984 about LGBT America before 1969. We talk to co-director Robert Rosenberg about the making of the film, which includes elders who came of age in the 1920s, and the making of a civil rights movement.

Infidelity, bromance, and death from consumption: The Santa Fe Opera 2019 Jun 24, 2019

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We talk to Santa Fe Opera dramaturg Cori Ellison about the operas in this summer’s season—history, production, casting and the beauty and drama of both classics and a world premiere.

Kids with disabilities — and their parents — face harassment from schools Jun 20, 2019

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Ed Williams of Searchlight New Mexico talks about children with severe disabilities in New Mexico public schools that not only don’t provide the services they need but actually call the police on them, and sometimes make false claims against their parents to CYFD.

The Plague: How we got rid of it... and how it could come back Jun 17, 2019

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David K. Randall’s new book "Black Death at the Golden Gate: The Race to Save America from the Bubonic Plague” is the vividly told story of the advent of modern medicine, and the science and politics of the fight against a brutally lethal bacterium.

Dr. Erica Elliott on medicine and miracles in Navajo Country Jun 13, 2019

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At the age of 23, Erica Elliott went to teach school on the Navajo reservation. After a rocky beginning, she fell in love with the people and their culture—and witnessed miracles that even now as a medical doctor she cannot fully understand.

Breaking the chain of inequity in housing and transportation Jun 10, 2019

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Tomás Rivera of the Chainbreaker Collective talks about what it will take to ensure fairness and equity for the most vulnerable people and neighborhoods in Santa Fe—especially as the former College of Santa Fe campus is developed.

The struggle for pueblo sovereignty Jun 06, 2019

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For centuries, pueblos have fought to assert and maintain their rights to land, water and self-determination. In the new book “Pueblo Sovereignty: Indian Land and Water in New Mexico and Texas,” historians Malcolm Ebright and Rick Hendricks explore the long history—and many successes—of this struggle.

From Monk to Money Manager Jun 03, 2019

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Doug Lynam found his calling as a money manager while serving as a monk and taking care of the monastery’s finances. He brings spiritual, environmental and practical perspectives to his work. We talk about his new book “From Monk to Money Manager: A Monk’s Financial Guide to Becoming a Little Bit Wealthy—and Why That’s Okay.”

Remembering Nobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann May 30, 2019

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A tribute to the life of Nobel Prize-winning scientist and co-founder of the Santa Fe Institute, Murray Gell-Mann, who died on May 24. Gell-Mann discovered the subatomic particle the Quark, and worked in many disciplines, including linguistics, archaeology, history and economics.

Killers, covert agents, and bouncers: Your immune system at work May 27, 2019

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Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Matt Richtel’s new book "An Elegant Defense" tells the story of how the human immune system works—and the stories of four people with extraordinary health challenges.