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Betty Williams
categories: Interview, Speeches
Interview with Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan Maguire – Sept. 15, 1976
September 15, 1976
Williams and Corrigan Maguire speak to Elaine Grand of "Good Afternoon" about their movement and how they want to achieve lasting peace in Northern Ireland. GRAND: …and they have formed the Women's Peace Movement in Northern Ireland, which is now I think called the Peace People, as simple as that, isn't it – the Peace People. And you were the children's aunt [said to Maguire], the first person to know about their deaths was you, wasn't it, Betty? WILLIAMS: Yes, that's right. I'd seen that thing all happening. I was […]
Dorothy Height
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Explorations in Black Leadership - December 9, 2003
December 9, 2003
BOND: Dr. Height, welcome to Explorations in Black Leadership. Thank you for doing this. HEIGHT: Glad to be here. BOND: I want to begin with some questions about Brown v. Board of Education. When you first heard that the Supreme Court had eliminated segregation in schools, what did you think? HEIGHT: Well, I just thought we had a hit a new high. I was very excited and I suppose, like most people, just really rejoiced that we'd reached that point. BOND: When you heard about it, what did you think […]
Ayọ Tometi
categories: Interview, Speeches
Interview on "Black America" - April 6, 2017
April 6, 2017
CAROL JENKINS: Hello and thank you so much for joining us today. I'm Carol Jenkins, the program is "Black America," and today we have with us one of the founders of Black Lives Matter, the activist organization. Opal Tometi, in addition to being one of the three women described by Fortune magazine as among the greatest of all leaders, is also executive director of Black Alliance for Just Immigration. Thank you so much, Opal, for joining us. TOMETI: Thank you so much for having me today. JENKINS: As we always […]
Patrisse Khan-Cullors
categories: Interview, Speeches
Talks at Google - Jan. 24, 2018
January 24, 2018
Hi, Google Seattle. Thank you. I like lively audiences, so please feel free to "mm-hmm" and "ashe" and "amen." This is the introduction to the book "We Are Stardust": "Days after the elections of 2016, asha sent me a link to a talk by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. We have to have hope, she says to me across 3,000 miles, she in Brooklyn, me in Los Angeles. We listen together as Dr. deGrasse Tyson explains that the very atoms and molecules in our bodies are traceable to the crucibles in […]
Bonnie J. Campbell
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Bonnie Campbell: Innovator in Iowa, Leader for the Nation - 2018
April 15, 2018
VARIOUS VOICES:With her passion and her commitment to protecting more women in Iowa and across the country and ultimately around the world, she really broke the glass ceiling.I was always so impressed with how she just held her head high and she didn't give up.She's phenomenal. She really is grand in every way. NARRATOR: Bonnie Campbell – innovator in Iowa, leader for the nation. CAMPBELL: I grew up on a dairy farm in upstate New York. Every year at the state fair, our state senator, Janet Hill Gordon, came every […]
Sonia Sotomayor
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"Fresh Air" Interview – January 13, 2014
January 13, 2014
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Like most sitting Supreme Court justices, my guest Sonia Sotomayor is circumspect when talking about the court. But, as she puts it, I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court. Her memoir, "My Beloved World," became a bestseller when it was published last year. It's just come out in paperback, which is the occasion for our interview. The book is about growing up poor in the South […]
Gloria Steinem
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Voices of Feminism Oral History Project – Sept. 28 and 30, 2007
September 28, 2007
Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College. Interviewed by Evelyn C. White. *In this oral history Steinem discusses her upbringing in a loving but unstable home with an emotionally ill mother and a carefree traveling antiques dealer father. She cites her years at Smith and experiences in India as pivotal in shaping her views on race, class and gender. Steinem also describes her journalism career and the role her work as a writer and speaker played in raising her consciousness about women and society. The interview focuses of Steinem’s critical involvement in […]
Kellyanne Conway
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CPAC Interview - February 23, 2017
February 23, 2017
SCHLAPP: Wow. CONWAY: Good morning. SCHLAPP: Wow. Well, I thought this was going to be an intimate conversation between you and me and over thousands of our closest friends. Thank you all for being here. We’re just so honored to have Kellyanne Conway come join us today in this very special CPAC. And I want to start by sharing a little bit about yourself. You started picking blueberries in a farm in New Jersey, raised by these incredibly powerful women, your mom, your grandmother, your two aunts. CONWAY: Yes. SCHLAPP: […]
Rose Mofford
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Interview - 1989
January 1, 1989
MOFFORD: I never dreamed this would ever happen. I like the job and the thing that I like the most about it is that what I'm able to do for the people of the great state of Arizona. I have a very positive attitude about Arizona, where we're going, and that's what makes me really like the job. When I'm faced with an issue, regardless of the magnitude, of it I immediately tried to resolve it and we're very responsive the entire staff is, that's what I like about it. […]
Sally Quillian Yates
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"All Things Considered" interview - July 31, 2017
July 31, 2017
On "All Things Considered," Yates speaks with NPR's Ari Shapiro about President Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the independence of the Department of Justice. AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: The Trump administration has had a lot of high-level turnover in six months and in just the last week and a half. The president's new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, is out. He lasted 10 days. During that time, the chief of staff and press secretary left. Scaramucci's departure today comes as the new chief of staff, John Kelly, had his first day […]