<description>Charles Person was one of the original Freedom Riders from 1961. At the age of only 18, he rode a public interstate bus into the segregated South with an inter-racial group of young people to challenge the persistent non-enforcement of US Supreme Court decisions which ruled that segregated public buses and other public spaces were unconstitutional. Viciously attacked twice by white Klansmen in Alabama, he put his life on the line to challenge the status quo in an act of nonviolent protest. Learn about his unique experience and his perspective on the current widespread protests against police brutality in the wake of George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis.
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A man who put his life on the line to help desegregate the South.

Interview with Charles Person, Freedom Rider from 1961 - 5.30.20

<description>&lt;p&gt;An interview with my father, Sidney I. Landau, who discusses his impoverished childhood in New York City in the 1940's; his experience as a draftee in the army in Frankfurt, Germany during the Korean War; his 40 year career as an editor of dictionaries and his life as an early marathon runner in Central Park during the 1970's. (Photo shows Sidney I. Landau with his grandchild).&lt;/p&gt;</description>

From a childhood in poverty to an adulthood in lexicography

Interview with my father, Sidney I. Landau (lexicographer) - 7.30.17

<description>&lt;p&gt;A personal reflection on the problem of being a &lt;strong&gt;HALF-JEW&lt;/strong&gt;, meaning a patrilineal Jew in all its inane contradictions. But more broadly, a reflection on not quite belonging anywhere.&lt;/p&gt;
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When you're Jewish to non-Jews but NOT Jewish to Jews. How to deal?

UNDER THE SURFACE TAKE 2 - BEING HALF-JEWISH 

<description>Ella Vallone, the US mail carrier for Easthampton, MA has a fan club made up of all the different people who live along her route, which happens to be her very own neighborhood. Despite the challenge of walking 13 miles a day to deliver mail to 680 houses a day, the hardship of extreme weather and the weight of heavy loads, she has found the job rewarding. She says, "I am blessed with people who shower me with umbrellas, food, love and stories about themselves and the history of the town.” </description>

What is it like to be a mail carrier in your own neighborhood?

Interview with Ella Vallone, US Post Office Mail Carrier - 2.18.18

<description>Meet the embodied artist and creator of Shyanne Happens. Shyanne Happens is a life-size, living, breathing inflatable doll! A "Shyanne Happening" challenges the status quo by reclaiming the female body from the porn industry and placing it in the totally different context of climate change and gender equality activism. By dancing between the Sacred and the Profane, Shyanne invites us to question the nature of life as we know it by confronting us with the contradictions of our own culture in all its complexity and strangeness.</description>

Who is Shyanne Happens?

Interview with Lynne, the Creator of Shyanne Happens - 2.11.18

UNDER THE SURFACE is a podcast featuring in-depth conversations that reveal personal realms of experience, insight and discovery, rarely discussed out loud. The show is hosted by Amy Landau and originally broadcast live on Valley Free Radio (WXOJ Northampton, 103.3 FM) every Sunday 12 noon to 1 PM. 

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