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Helena Andrews: Bitch is the New Black
Helena Andrews: Bitch is the New Black
Helena Andrews
July 15, 2010
00:32:20
Helena Andrews is young, smart, successful and black.
How to Succeed in Communications and Journalism
How to Succeed in Communications and Journalism
B.J. Kinard
February 3, 2010
01:06:00
B.J. Kinard, David Simpson, and Keisha Lancelin discuss the communications and journalism fields and give career advice to students. Image
Drawing Attention: Cartooning with Mike Luckovich
Drawing Attention: Cartooning with Mike Luckovich
Mike Luckovich
June 27, 2010
01:06:00
Mike Luckovich, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, talks about the "hows" and "whys" of his art. Image
Jonathan Alter: President Obama, Year One
Jonathan Alter: President Obama, Year One
Jonathan Alter
May 26, 2010
01:12:00
Jonathan Alter, senior editor at Newsweek, discusses his new book, The Promise: President Obama, Year One.
Anya Kamenetz: DIY U: The Coming Transformation of Higher Education
Anya Kamenetz: DIY U: The Coming Transformation of Higher Education
Anya Kamenetz
May 17, 2010
00:42:31
Anya Kamenetz discusses her new book, DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education. The price of college tuition has increased more than any other major good or service for the last twenty years.
Kasim Reed: State of the City Breakfast, 2010
Kasim Reed: State of the City Breakfast, 2010
Kasim Reed
April 16, 2010
00:20:56
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed delivers the 2010 Mayor’s Annual State of the City Business Breakfast address, hosted by the Atlanta Committee for Progress (ACP). Image
Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Became Mark Twain
Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Became Mark Twain
Roy Morris Jr.
April 13, 2010
00:49:03
Roy Morris, Jr. discusses his new book, Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Became Mark Twain. Mark Twain is arguably the most famous and influential writer in American history.
Don Teague and Rafraf Barrak: Saved by Her Enemy
Don Teague and Rafraf Barrak: Saved by Her Enemy
Don Teague
March 4, 2010
00:54:26
Emmy Award-winning CBS News Correspondent Don Teague and his Iraqi-born translator Rafraf Barrak discuss their book, Saved by Her Enemy: An Iraqi Woman's Journey from the Heart of War to the Heartland of America. The two met early in the Iraq War and were nearly killed by a terrorist bomb.
Rafe Esquith: Lighting Their Fires
Rafe Esquith
August 2, 2010
00:41:21
Rafe Esquith is the only teacher to have been awarded the President’s Medal of the Arts and is the author of the bestseller, Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire.
Composed by Rosanne Cash
Composed by Rosanne Cash
Rosanne Cash
August 20, 2010
00:58:11
Rosanne Cash, daughter of music legend Johnny Cash, shares some stories and plays a couple of songs. She performs on a custom-made Martin D-41 guitar donated by America's oldest brewery, Yuengling.
Buddhism Basics and Beyond
Geshe Damdul Namgya
May 9, 2010
00:56:02
Geshe Phende shares insights into Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and how ancient teachings are as relevant today as they were 2500 years ago. He discusses how people in the 21st century can benefit from his years of studying the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path.
How to Succeed in Communications and Journalism
How to Succeed in Communications and Journalism
B.J. Kinard
February 3, 2010
01:06:00
B.J. Kinard, David Simpson, and Keisha Lancelin discuss the communications and journalism fields and give career advice to students. Image
How Religion Poisons Everything
Christopher Hitchens
May 16, 2007
01:15:57
Christopher Hitchens makes a case against religion. With a close reading of major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish.
Spartacus: The Man and the Myth
Barry Strauss
March 25, 2009
00:59:32
Barry Strauss talks about his new book, The Spartacus War, the real story of the Hollywood hero and revolutionary icon. Strauss depicts a Spartacus with parallels of insurgency and counter-insurgency between then and president-day wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

About PBA Forum Network

The Forum Network is presented as part of a new partnership with PBS and NPR, with generous funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. PBA is a collaborating partner with WGBH Boston, WETA in Washington, DC, and WNET New York in expanding this online lecture service.

The PBA Forum Network service gives online audiences an opportunity to watch video lectures by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, and policymakers. Forum Network lectures are hosted by community organizations and educational institutions in Atlanta and beyond. The Forum Network online lecture library currently includes thousands of video and audio files, produced by PBA and other participating public broadcast stations from across the country. As part of a public broadcast station collaboration all lectures are aggregated into one common digital archive and made available to our local Atlanta audiences as well as audiences worldwide, through the Forum Network.

PBA is committed to providing outstanding educative content for lifelong learners worldwide and to encouraging civic engagement around the vital issues of our time. We encourage audiences to browse our featured and popular lectures. Explore lectures by Topics, Series, Partners, and Speakers. To provide viewers with more information, lectures are further augmented with speaker biographies, related lectures and books, captions and transcripts, and downloadable audio.

PBA is currently seeking partnerships with Atlanta-based cultural, educational, and nonprofit organizations that are interested in extending the reach of their organization's lecture offerings through this network.

To learn more about becoming a PBA Forum Network partner please contact Gary Lieberman, Coordinator of the Atlanta Forum Network at 678.686.0378, or Wayne Sharpe, Director of New Media for PBA at 678.553.3032. For general information about Forum Network partnership please visit the Become a Partner page.

About Atlanta Public Broadcasting

Great cities are known by their museums, theaters, symphonies and parks. But the greatest impact on a city's cultural life radiates invisibly through the air.

For Atlanta, that cultural force is Public Broadcasting Atlanta. WABE 90.1 FM and PBA 30, brings NPR News, music, the arts and PBS programming to hundreds of thousands of listeners and viewers each year. Today, people turn to public broadcasting for their news, music, arts and entertainment. Yet, few people realize that public broadcasting began as "educational television" -- strictly a learning resource. As a broadcast service of Atlanta Public Schools in partnership with the Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collaborative (AETC), PBA has never lost sight of its original mission. Education remains at the core of our operation at every level, from preschoolers to our elders.
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