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Rev. McKindra, Chaplain at Lane College, Jackson, TN speaks on challenges of traditional and structural approaches of spirituality and college students. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/timelywisdom/message
Today's broadcast of Radio CALS features a conversation with 2016 Olympic gold medalist long jumper and North Little Rock native, Jeff Henderson; noted historian Mark Christ discusses Civil War Arkansas; Freeman McKindra; Bizarre Arkansas; a new episode of Chewing the Fat; and more.
In this October 2008 conversation, Jajuan Johnson interviews Arkansas educator and Peace Corps volunteer Freeman McKindra about his life and work.
This week's broadcast of Radio CALS features a reading by Rien Fertel from his book, The One True Barbecue, from the Arkansas Literary Festival 2016; selections from Legacies & Lunch featuring Vivienne Lie Schiffer, who has written a book and produced a film about the experiences of Japanese Americans held in internment camps in Arkansas during WWII; an interview with Guy Lancaster, editor of the Encyclopedia of Arkansas (EOA), on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the EOA; Bizarre Arkansas with a story about Dr. John Richard Brinkley, a notorious quack who practiced "medicine" in the 1930's in Arkansas; Chewing the Fat with Rex Nelson and Paul Austin; information about and music by Bob Dorough, a composer, lyricist, and musician from Arkansas who is best known for his jazz compositions and 1970s Schoolhouse Rock! shorts on ABC Saturday morning television; selections from Bagels & Books, a partnership between the CALS Hillary Rodham Clinton Children's Library & Learning Center and jUSt, a pending nonprofit that serves as the leadership for Global Kids Arkansas; a reading of a short story by Dave Wallis, who served as mayor of Pine Bluff and authored multiple books on Arkansas history; and an interview with Freeman McKindra, a teacher from Arkansas who has worked in community development with the Peace Corps and other groups.
Selections from Legacies & Lunch featuring David Pryor, talking about his love of the Old State House, his early legislative involvement with the Young Turks, his inability to pass a memorial bill for Winston Churchill, and a kind note he received from Orval Faubus; Selections from Legacies & Lunch featuring Aretha Dodson discussing one room schoolhouses, split sessions, segregation during her childhood, and her book, "That's the Way it Wuz Back Then"; another installment of "Chewing the Fat with Rex & Paul"; #CALSStories with Chris Hancock of the Historic Arkansas Museum; Community organizer Freeman McKindra discusses the two years he spent in Pakistan with the peace corps, his world travels, and his work developing communities in Arkansas; and an interview with Eric Meincke, a 17 year old high school senior who will conduct the classical music performance at our next Arkansas Sounds concert, a tribute to Florence Price and William Grant Still.