Civil Rights Audio & Video

[description] The restaurant industry employs more than 300,000 people in Massachusetts, that is more than 9% of the state workforce. The bulk of many restaurant workers income is tips, but there has been a wave of legal action over how the gratuities are shared. How should restaurant workers be paid ? Does the system need to change?

[description] Late on heating bills, twenty-thousand Massachusetts households are at risk of having their energy cut off today.

[description] The commissioner of the state's prison system says he strongly opposes allowing a convicted killer to have a state-funded sex-change operation, saying it would create "insurmountable" safety and security problems. Is this insane?

[description] The Burmese government is under increasing pressure to allow foreign aid workers and organizations into the country. We'll speak with the Christian Science Monitor's Chris Johnson, who's been reporting from Burma. Lijia Zhang is a Chinese journalist and writer whose memoir is titled, "Socialism is Great!". We speak to Zhang about growing up in the 80s in China — she had to work in a factory, but developed a great appreciation of Jane Eyre. Zhang also talks about the new China, as it copes with a devastating earthquake. There is a lot of news on the political front today and we'll wrap it up with Rick Klein of ABC News. Speaking in Israel today, President Bush suggested that Barack Obama and other Democrats are in favor of "appeasement" of terrorists in the same way U.S. leaders appeased Nazis in the run-up to World War II. Obama is basking in the John Edwards' endorsement. Meantime, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, John McCain, said if he's elected, American

[description] Iraqi soldiers are warning residents to leave the embattled Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, ahead of what might be a larger offensive by US and Iraqi forces against Shiite militiamen. We speak with Tina Susman, Baghdad bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times. Slavery did not end with the end of the Civil War. In fact it went on in a different form until World War II. Free blacks were arrested on trumped up charges all across the south and were leased to landowners and industries. They were often forced to work in coal mines or lumber mills under horrific conditions. Douglas Blackmon uncovers this history in in his new book "Slavery By Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II." The farm bill, funding for the war in Iraq and more. We speak with Gail Chaddock, Capitol Hill correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor. Almost half of all women who leave the workforce to have children never return. But they would if they could f

[description] Police abuses during the 2004 Republican National Convention, and lawyers fighting to prevent similar tactics this summer. -- Thank you for catching our podcast! We provide programs FREE to radio stations and do not accept government or corporate support, so PLEASE DONATE at: http://www.radioproject.org/support .

[description] Author Daniel J. Flynn will join us to talk about his most recent book A Conservative History of the American Left.

[description] A day ahead of voting in Indiana and North Carolina, Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton continue to spar over whether to suspend the gas tax for the summer. We discuss presidential politics with Rick Klein, senior political reporter for The Note at ABC News. Indiana is a presidential battleground state for the first time in 40 years. In 1968, New York Senator Robert Kennedy entered the race in mid-March and made his stand in Indiana after President Johnson shocked the nation by saying he would not seek re-election. Minnesota Senator Eugene McCarthy was Kennedy's main rival, but Kennedy prevailed. We speak with Ray Boomhower, author of "Robert Kennedy and the 1968 Primary in Indiana." Eight Belles was second in Saturday's Kentucky Derby, but had to be euthanized shortly afterwards because of two broken ankles. We speak with Joe Drape of the New York Times. The British band Portishead made a name for itself in the 1990's by spinning turntables and sampling music into

[description] A Sox-Yankees dispute is cited in a NH murder. Details on this and more in the WBZ Afternoon News.

[description] In a new memoir, Ted Sorensen recounts his experiences advising JFK during some of the most dramatic moments of American history.