Current Issues and Politics

Dr. Oscar Beasley: 40+ Years on a Bike

Iowa City's own Dr. Oscar Beasley began riding his bike to work during the 1970s due to the cost of gas. This soon led him to riding long distance rides all over the world. More than 40 years...

Current Issues and Politics

Money Smart Week: How to Avoid Scams and Fraud

Don't jeopardize your financial security! Staff from MidWestOne bank share lessons on how to avoid common financial scams and fraud.

Co-sponsored by the Johnson County Livable...

Current Issues and Politics

Intellectual Freedom Festival Poetry Event: Poets on the Barricades

The Iowa City Johnson County Senior Center's Reading Aloud group reads poems about slavery, racism, and other forms of oppression across time and the world.

Part of the 2015 Carol...

Books and Writing, Current Issues and Politics

The Cost of Success: Rap Music, Money, & Civics

A conversation between Dr. Michael Hill (UI English and African American Studies) and Andre Perry. From the moment that it appeared, rap music focused on money. Many commentators used this...

Arts, Music, and Hobbies, Current Issues and Politics

Equal Before The Law: An afternoon with Tom Witosky and Marc Hansen

On April 3, 2009, a decision by the Iowa Supreme Court made Iowa the third state in the nation to permit same-sex couples to marry. "Equal Before The Law" tells the stories behind this...

Books and Writing, Current Issues and Politics

All I Could Be: My Story as a Woman Warrior in Iraq

In her new memoir "All I Could Be: My Story as a Woman Warrior in Iraq" journalist Miyoko Hikiji details her over 70 missions throughout the northwest quadrant of Iraq in 2003-2004. Ms....

Books and Writing, Current Issues and Politics

IFF 2014: When Comics Almost Died - Readers, Censors, and Innovation

Sixty years ago, three events endangered comics: the publication of psychiatrist Fredric Wertham's book "Seduction of the Innocent" which blamed juvenile delinquency on reading...

Books and Writing, Current Issues and Politics

Author Visit: Thomas Maltman, Author of Little Wolves

All Iowa Reads selection Little Wolves author Thomas Maltman visits Iowa City Public Library to speak about his novel.

Recorded June 9, 2014.

Books and Writing, Current Issues and Politics

Iowa City Book Fest 2013: The Henrietta Lacks Story

A discussion of evolution of the federal regulations for human subjects' research and the involvement of minority and vulnerable subject groups in research prior to- and since the regulations...

Books and Writing, Current Issues and Politics