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From the Creative Frontline of Lebanon's Revolution

Since October 2019, demonstrators have flooded the streets of Lebanon; part of a grassroots movement against corruption, climate denial, big finance, and government failure. Civil society organizations are now providing people with everything from food and protection to street cleaning and work...

Lynching and Lunacy: Mab Segrest on the Racist Roots of American Psychiatry

Acclaimed “Race Traitor” author, Mab Segrest, takes Laura through deep south to trace the racist roots of American psychiatry. They explore the infamous state mental hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia and visit with Bryan Stevenson of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama to consider...

Imagining A Brand New Congress

Host Jim Vrettos interviews six candidates to the US Congress who present themselves as an alternative to the establishment and a new breed of politicians looking to regain the serve part in public service positions:


Samelys Lopez | Candidate - 15th Congressional District


Melanie D'Arrigo |...

Okwui Okpokwasili on Centering Black Women's Experiences in Performance

Can dance and song offer insight into a performer's experience, even across race and gender? In this episode, Laura interviews MacArthur Genius Award winning choreographer Okwui Okpokwasili about her groundbreaking experimental work to communicate the lived experiences of African and African...

Raising Vibrations against Gender-Based Violence

From native American Sun Dances and Ghost dances, to Irish Ceilis and jazz dancing across-the-color line, people have danced to resist, as well as to celebrate.  Around the world a whole lot of women are keeping that tradition alive with mass dancing in the streets on or around VDay, February 14th. ...

Imagining What's Love Got To Do With It... Everything

Host Jim Vrettos welcomes Psychotherapist, Author, Activist, Media Personality Beatty Cohan-Vrettos to have an interesting conversation about love, its importance for the human soul and the effects of being depraved of it.  They will address marriage from a special view, including comments from Dr...

Trump's Wall and the End of the American Frontier

In this episode, Laura interviews author and Yale historian Greg Grandin about his new book The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. They explore how America's foundational myth of progress has given way to protectionism. Will opposition to the wall finally...

B-Roll 101: Practical & Effective Tips

September 8, 2023

Learn all about b-roll and how you can find it, shoot it, and use it to add depth and interest to both scripted and documentary video projects.

This Week on MNN

September 7, 2023

This Week on MNN honors the 22nd anniversary of September 11

This Week on MNN

August 24, 2023

This Week on MNN we celebrate National Wellness Month.