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Roberta Fernandez and Andre de Korvin / produced by Barbara Entman.

Interviews with poets, fiction writers and playwrights who live near Houston, Texas. They read portions of their work, discuss writing, literature, and the creative process. The producer, Entman, has attempted to collect writers who reflect the diversity of cultures found in the Houston metropolitan area.|ROBERTA FERNANDEZ AND ANDRE DE KORVIN / produced by Barbara Entman.

Dr. Roberta Fernandez's book of short stories, "Intaglio" was published in 1990. An assistant professor Hispanic and Classical Languages at the University of Houston, she is formerly an affiliated scholar at the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Dr. Andre de Korvin, the author of "The Four Hard Edges of War," was born in Berlin, Germany.

Timothy Liu and John Gorman / produced by Barbara Entman.

Interviews with poets, fiction writers and playwrights who live near Houston, Texas. They read portions of their work, discuss writing, literature, and the creative process. The producer, Entman, has attempted to collect writers who reflect the diversity of cultures found in the Houston metropolitan area.|TIMOTHY LIU AND JOHN GORMAN / produced by Barbara Entman.

Joanie Whitebird and Michael Sofranko / produced by Barbara Entman.

Interviews with poets, fiction writers and playwrights who live near Houston, Texas. They read portions of their work, discuss writing, literature, and the creative process. The producer, Entman, has attempted to collect writers who reflect the diversity of cultures found in the Houston metropolitan area.|JOANIE WHITEBIRD AND MICHAEL SOFRAN / produced by Barbara Entman.

Joanie Whitebird, a native Texan, is associate editor of Wings Press, and has published several book of poetry and fiction, including "Heat and Other Stores," "Naked," and "Bootstrap Chronicles." She discusses writing with her friend, Michale Sofranko. Sofranko is the Administrative Coordinator for PEN Southwest.

Fabian Worsham and Lorenzo Thomas / produced by Barbara Entman.

Interviews with poets, fiction writers and playwrights who live near Houston, Texas. They read portions of their work and discuss writing, literature, and the creative process. The producer, Entman, has attempted to collect writers who reflect the diversity of cultures found in the Houston metropolitan area.|FABIAN WORSHAM AND LORENZO THOMAS / produced by Barbara Entman.

Fabian Worsham's poetry has been published in periodicals, and she has published two collections, "Aunt Erma's Country Kitchen and Bordello," and "The Green Kangaroom." She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Houston. Lorenzo Thomas, Born in Panama and raised in New York City.

Black Americans need a domestic desert storm / William Gibson.

Talk by Dr. William Gibson in which he points to the reality of African-Americans going to fight in the Desert Storm operation, only to come home to a country where they are denied political and social rights. Gibson begins by comparing the war fervor of the Persian Gulf to that of World War I, including the disappointment of African-American sliders upon their return from combat.

NAACP National Convention youth delegation / Cheryl Lee Ralph.

Speech-sermon by actress-activist Cheryl Lee Ralph to the youth delegation of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) to take steps to insure their future. He advocates education, not simply attending school, and calls for a development of understanding which can replace ignorance and racism.

Commission for responsive democracy / Maria Himenez.

Maria Himenez, Director of the Immigration Law Enforcement Project of the American Friends Service Committee, speaks at the Houston hearings sponsored by the National Organization for Women.

A Free and responsible press : our right to know, our right to dissent / Christopher Hitchens, Saul Landau, Alexander cockburn ; produced by Edmundo Resendez and Shaun Keenan Gilson.

Three talks which examine the present status of Civil Rights, the role of media in creating a vision of the world, and how the press presented the Gulf War, 1990-1991.|A FREE AND RESPONSIBLE PRESS : OUR RIGHT TO KNOW, OUR RIGHT TO DISSENT / Christopher Hitchens, Saul Landau, Alexander Cockburn| produced by Edmundo Resendez and Shaun Keenan Gilson.

pt.1. Misconceptions presented by George Bush about the Bill of Rights, and the U.S. efforts to maintain borders drawn by the British in 1921 / Christopher Hitchens -- pt.2. The Role of television in the New World Order : from management of the media to the denial of eyewitnesses / Saul Landau -- pt.3. Comparing the media coverage of the Gulf War and the L.A.

Just vs. unjust war : a historical perspective / Howard Zinn ; produced by Edmundo Resendez and Shaun Keenan Gilson.

Historian and playwrite Howard Zinn, best known for his history A People's History of the United States, discusses the rhetoric around the concept of just causes, and charges that such a cause does not necessarily lead to a just war. He draws historical parallels between the Gulf War, 1990-1991, and: Korea, Vietnam, and the Cuban Missile Crisis.|JUST VS.

Bush, the Persian Gulf crisis, and the African-American community / Sanders Anderson, Jr. ; interviewed by Shaun Keenan Gilson ; produced by Edmundo Resendez.

Sanders Anderson Jr., a political scientist at Black Texas Southern University in Houston, discusses how the reaction to the war was different at TSU, where many students come from the Middle East, than on many predominantly white campuses.

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