KQED's Perspectives
Summary: Perspectives is KQED Public Radio's series of daily commentaries by our listeners. Essays cover a broad range of social and political issues, cultural observations and personal experiences of interest to KQED's Northern California audience.
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Podcasts:
For Richard Swerdlow to teach black history, he needed to learn a thing or two.
Chess may be a game, but a mentor taught Youth Radio's Chris Alsobrook that it's really a way of thinking.
Cataract surgery leaves Evan Sagerman with two eyes that each see the world differently.
Mac Clayton grew up with a beloved shotgun — but he won't be passing it on to his son.
Alfonso Orsini was headed to jail or the grave until a teacher praised and challenged him.
As a parent of a mentally ill child, Dorothy O'Donnell knows the challenges of treatment.
Before the digital age, a key business tool of Toby Costello's grandfather was shoe leather.
Paul Staley asks: When did politics become a conflict between rights instead of interests?
On the 40th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, Lorrie Goldin looks at the narrowing status of abortion rights.
Dick Meister observes that Martin Luther King was an advocate for labor, not just a civil rights leader.
Mike Newland sees 100,000 years of evolution down the drain in supermarkets and restaurants.
Jane Zimmerman addresses the NRA proposal for armed guards in schools.
Alyssa Brennan and her mother couldn't talk politics. At all. Ever. Until Newtown.
Andrea Cumbo Dowdy notes that Martin Luther King's pacifism didn't stop at the nation's shores.
People seem clueless how to resolve their conflicts. Just ask a mediator like Richard Friedlander.
