Social Issues

On the Road in the Hilltowns: Wired West

Planning, building and operating a community-owned, fiber-optic network that enables the provision of comprehensive, affordable, reliable and high-quality internet, phone, video and ancillary services to all residents, businesses and institutions is the goal of Wired...

Urban League President, Pt. 2

Marc Morial, President and CEO of the National Urban League and Henry Thomas, Springfield Urban League President, discuss race relations in the United States today. Springfield Urban League National Urban League Springfield Urban League on Twitter: @ulspringfield...

Italian Americans: Bruce Watson

Bruce Watson, author of “Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, The Murders and the Judgment of Mankind” discusses the case, prejudice faced by Italian immigrants, and his own participation in the PBS documentary, “The Italian Americans.” Bruce...

Du Bois in our Time: A CP Special

This Connecting Point Special features a screening of the film DuBois in Our Time. Prior to the screening, the Executive Producer for the film Loretta Yarlow talks with Connecting Point’s Jim Madigan. Du Bois in Our Time A film that explores how ten contemporary...

Reader to Reader

David Mazor, founding Executive Director of Amherst-based “Reader to Reader, Inc” talks about this initiative aimed at getting books into the hands of underprivileged children. Reader to Reader Reader to Reader on...

Author Richard Andersen

Springfield College Professor Richard Andersen, author of “We Called Him Bunny” discusses his book which tells the story of Springfield’s 1934 New England Championship American Legion baseball team which refused to play in a North Carolina tournament...

Rick Hurst on Race Relations

Attorney and former Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination Commissioner Rick Hurst, now publisher of the African-American Point of View newspaper in Springfield, discusses race relations in American today as we celebrate Martin Luther King...