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Interview with Ron Robinson

Ron Robinson is a native of Buffalo, New York. He has been Young America’s Foundation president for over four decades. Robinson served as the Director of the Long America's For Freedom (1977-1979), President of the United State Youth Council (1983-1985) and President of the International Youth Yea...

Interview with Courtland Cox

Courtland Cox spent his childhood between Trinidad and New York City. He went to Howard University and eventually became a civil rights activist. He joined a group called the Non-violent Action Group (NAG) to fight against white supremacy and segregation and then became a member of the Student Non-V...

Interview with Mike Roselle

Mike Roselle is an environmental activist and author. He is one of the co-founders of the radical environmental organization Earth First!, the Rainforest Action Network, the Ruckus Society, Climate Ground Zero, and is the former director of Greenpeace USA, Board member of National Forest Protection ...

Interview with Elizabeth Holtzman

Elizabeth Holtzman is an American politician and former member of the United States House of Representatives. She is a Democrat and was the first woman to hold office as the New York City Comptroller and the District Attorney of Kings County, New York. Holtzman graduated from Radcliffe College of Ha...

Interview with Mary Thom

Mary Thom (1944-2013) was a chronicler of the feminist movement, writer, and former executive editor of Ms. Magazine. She wrote her first book about the history of Ms. Magazine, entitled Inside Ms.: 25 Years of the Magazine and the Feminist Movement. Thom graduated from Bryn Mawr College.

Interview with Dr. Richard Lorber

Dr. Lorber is an art critic, writer, editor, teacher, chairman and CEO of a film and distribution company. In 1968, he and his uncle, Ernest Fladell, co-authored The Gap, a bestselling book, which took a conversational approach to the growing cultural divide between baby boomers and their p...

Interview with Susan Rosenberg

Susan Rosenberg is a far-left revolutionary, educator, author and advocate for social justice and prisoners' rights. She was active in many radical movements and she lived as a fugitive for several years. She was eventually caught and sentenced to 58 years in prison. While in prison, she became a po...

Interview with Dr. Ellen Schrecker

Dr. Ellen Schrecker is a scholar, professor emerita of American History at Yeshiva University and has received a fellowship at the Tamiment library in NYU. In addition, she is considered a leading expert on McCarthyism and has taught at various prestigious universities including Princeton, New York University, and Columbia.