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Friday, February 11, 2022 - Rural areas are often in what’s called food deserts, where there’s not always easy access to healthy food. Brandi Malarkey introduces us to a hub-and-spoke approach to rural grocery delivery. She visits with two members of the Rural Access Distribution Cooperative board, Vice President Diana Hahn and President Alex Bata. ~~~ Tom Isern shares a Plains Folk essay, Talking Back to Bachelors. ~~~ News Director Dave Thompson is here for his weekly news debrief. ~~~ Matt Olien reviews Flee and comments on the Oscar nominations released this week.

Writer and activist bell hooks, whose lowercase pseudonym belied her towering achievements as an architect of what came to be known as intersectional feminism, died today at age sixty-nine at her home in Berea, Kentucky. The news was announced by her niece, Ebony Motley. hooks, whose work addressed the systems of oppression spawned by the overlapping of race, class, sexuality, and gender, gained wide acclaim for Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism (1981), which explored the impact of racism and sexism on Black women in relation to the feminist and civil rights movements that had rece...

Trailblazing writer, activist and cultural theorist who made a pivotal contribution to Black feminist thought

One of the twentieth century’s greatest cultural critics, author and activist bell hooks, has died aged 69.

Highlights from the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle and others.