Sonya Green
- Username: SonyaVOD
- Executive Director
- Role: National Program Staff
Recent Pieces from Sonya Green
Black Women In History
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From: Making Contact
While Black women have played a critical role in the development of the nation, their stories have been mostly overlooked. In the new book, A Black Women’s History of the ...
Life During COVID
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From: Making Contact
The COVID 19 pandemic has transformed all of our lives in some way. But some are feeling the impacts more than others. Take healthcare workers, for example: As the United ...
The Response: The Fight for Justice after the Grenfell Tower Fire
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From: Making Contact
On June 14, 2017, a fire started in a 24-story public housing apartment in West London called Grenfell Tower. The fire raged all night and reduced the building to a shell. ...
The World's Biggest Methanol Refinery (Updated Encore)
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From: Making Contact
Barbara Bernstein’s story of communities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States who are fighting mammoth fracked gas projects that would turn this green region into a ...
George Floyd Anniversary & Reimagining Public Safety: Special YES!/PNS Report
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From: Making Contact
Minneapolis, MN - May 25 marks the one-year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd, by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin. Floyd's death - captured on video ...
Grace Lee Boggs: Sister Revolutionary
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From: Making Contact
On today's program we honor the life and legacy of civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs through the lens of the documentary film, American Revolutionary: The Evolution of ...
Angelic Troublemaker: Bayard Rustin
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From: Making Contact
On today's program we honor Bayard Rustin, one of the most central figures in the African American struggle for Civil Rights and Freedom. Rustin was a pacifist, homosexual ...
Lessons From Defund the Police
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From: Making Contact
It's been a year since the call to "Defund the Police" rang out through the George Floyd Protests. The idea isn't new - redistributing police funds into community projects ...
Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm (Encore)
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From: Making Contact
Three years after Hurricane Maria hit, Puerto Ricans are still reeling from its effects and aftereffects. We bring you a Haymarket Books talk by Marisol LeBrón, Yarimar ...
