The latest programs from WNHH radio check in with community members about the massacre in Orlando, revisit immigration reform and the Brock Turner case, meet new authors with new summer reads, and time-travel to a simple time that actually wasn’t so simple.
On “Dateline New Haven” New Haven Legal Assistance attorneyJames Bhandary-Alexander and Unidad Latina en Accion organizer John Lugo talk discuss their efforts to fight wage theft and promote immigration reform and justice in New Haven. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or subscribe to WNHH’s “Dateline New Haven” podcast on Soundcloud or iTunes.
“The Show” host Host Michelle Turner speaks to author Shireal Renee about her book, Me & My Man’s Wife, which comes out this summer. To listen, click on or download the audio above, or subscribe to “WNHH Arts Mix” on Soundcloud or iTunes.
For a special episode, WNHH station manager Lucy Gellman speaks with New Haveners Elinor Slomba and Luis Antonio about how the city’s LGBTQI community is trying to come together, talk about the attack, and heal after the Orlando shooting. To listen, click on or download the audio above.
On a non-food-related episode of “Kitchen Sync,” host and WNHH Station Manager Lucy Gellman talks to Babz Rawls-Ivy, editor of Inner City News CT and host of WNHH’s LoveBabz LoveTalk, and Hopewell Rodgers, intern at Love146 and a rising junior at Yale University, about the Brock Turner case and how sexual assault and rape on and off college campuses can still be happening. To listen, click on or download the audio above or subscribe to WNHH’s “Elm City Lowdown” podcast on Soundcloud or iTunes.
On June 13th, “This Day in New Haven History” hosts Allan Appel and the New Haven Museum’s Jason Bischoff-Wurstle time travel to the War of 1812 and encounter an antiquated kind of Nutmegger fear: Fear of attack by the Americans who predated them in New Haven. If General William Henry Harrison, then the governor of the Indiana Territory, is fortifying his house against Indian attack, what should they do? To listen, click on or download the audio above.
On a states’ rights version of “This Day in New Haven History,” hosts Allan Appel and Jason Bischoff-Wurstle once again time travel to the War of 1812 and explore how Trumbull refused to obey a federal order to send the militia to aid the American attack on British Canada. After all, the Connecticut regiments were state militia, not a national guard. To listen, click on or download the audio above.