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Im a. D. And digger halperin, the senior mellon postdoctoral fellow in womens history public history at the New York Historical society. Tonights program, the chinese lady gaga way in early america, will. Approximately 45 minutes, including 15 minutes for questions and answers at the end. And now im delight to introduce tonights speakers. Nancy davis is curator emeritus at the smithsonian and institutions National Museum of american history. Thats curator. She on exhibitions focusing on material...

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Hello, im bonnie erbe. Welcome to to the contrary, a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. Up first, the latest from the gridiron. The nfls Domestic Violence and child abuse scandals continue this week, as media reports of more abusers and disappearing sponsors mount. Top corporate sponsors are standing by the nfl for now, even those run by women. The female chief executive officers of pepsico, General Motors and Campbell Soup co. , run companies that pay hundreds of mi...

You get the outlying areas of milwaukee and you cant get much redder. Woodruff and its friday, mark shields and david brooks are here, to analyze a full week of news. Those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by moving our economy for 160 years. Bnsf, the engine that connects us. Ive been around long enough to recognize the people who are out there owning it. The ones getting involved, staying engaged. They are...

Growing concern about global terrorism and worldwide condemnation of the downing of that malaysian airliner yesterday but the u. S. Believes ukrainian separatists backed by russia. At the white house today, president obama revealed one american, a u. S. And dutch citizen was on board the downed jet while he called for a seize fire by russian separatists and a thorough investigation into the cause of the incident. This was a global tragedy, an asian airliner was destroyed in european skies filled...

[ ] hello im bonnie erbe welcome to to the contrary a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. Up first children and terrorism. Recent traft acts have the u. S. And europe on high alert but authorities are not just on the look out for masked men. More and more they are seeing women and children committing acts of terror. In nigeria, boko haram used a 10yearold girl as a suicide bomber. Isis released a video of a child participating in an assassination. And Hayat Boumeddien...

Hello, im bonnie erbe. Welcome to to the contrary, a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. Up first, legal wrangling over abortion a federal Appeals Court heard arguments this week about a hotly contested texas law that could be the new frontier for the abortion rights debate. The law mandates a strict set of building codes for clinics requiring upgrades that could cost millions. Prolife proponents say theyre necessary to ensure the safety of women. But prochoice groups...

[ ] hello im bonnie erbe welcome to to the contrary a discussion of news and social trends. Up first, Sexual Assault. A rape and other forms of violence against women starting to be taken more seriously . Commentators say the nfls swift reaction to the newest case of player misconduct is a good sign. The San Francisco nfl team is releasing ray mcdonald after he was identified as a suspect in a Sexual Assault case. This is a turnaround for the nfl which ways pilloried for the response to ray rice...

Hurting womens causes . Hello, im bonnie erbe. Welcome to to the contrary, a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. Up first, the white house pay gap. Does president obama practice what he preaches . Former hp president and republican president ial candidate Carly Fiorina reignited that pay equity debate this week. Fiorina confronted obama Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett charging that the president is not paying women equally, by his own measures in his own white house. J...

Supportive of that and i think he wants to put the church in a larger context. But there are some realities that eventually he has to go beyond talking. And abortion is one and the role of women and particularly of nuns. Because this is an issue he has raised he wants to come up with a deeper theology of women which a nun wrote in Time Magazine she didnt know what that meant. There is a lot of deep theological analysis by nuns. Its not a new concept because he avoiding the bottom line issue what...