David speaks with Andrew Skerrit about his latest work Ashamed to Die: Silence, Denial, and the AIDS Epidemic in the South. The book examines the AIDS epidemic in the rural Southern areas of the United States. Although AIDS cases in general are on the decline, AIDS cases in the rural and often poverty-stricken areas of […]
David speaks to Cynthia Good, Founder and CEO of Little Pink Book. Before her role at Pink, Good was a well-known anchor on Fox 5 news in Atlanta. Little Pink Book is a daily e-newsletter that serves to help women and their role in the business world. The goal of Little Pink Book is to […]
David speaks with CJ Chivers about his latest book,The Gun, which traces the history of the Russian born Kalashnikov rifle. CJ Chivers is an American journalist and author who reports for The New York Times. In the summer of 2007, he was named the newspaper’s Moscow bureau chief, replacing Steven Lee Myers. He won a […]
David speaks with Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, the Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs at Yale University about the tragic life and career of Patricia Dunn. After rising from the ranks of Secretary at Wells Fargo to Chairwoman at Hewlett-Packard, Dunn was ousted in 2006 amid charges of illegal spying in order to catch board members who […]
David speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Joseph Lelyveld about his new book on Mahatma Gandi. Having spent time in both South Africa and India in his years with the New York Times, Lelyveld became very familiar with the life of Gandhi and how he went from being a semi-enlightened figure to the legendary figure today. […]
David speaks with Stephanie Blank, the founding chair of the governing board of GEEARS, the Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students. Stephanie talks about the importance of early childhood education, beginning as early as ages two and three, and what Georgia can do to better prepare children for a lifetime of education. Original Air […]
David speaks with Fulton County Superior Court Chief Judge Doris Downs. Judge Downs has made a name for herself in the state by using what she calls accountability courts to help rehabilitate non-violent offenders. As a method of rehabilitation that does not crowd already overcrowded jails, the system of accountability courts treats offenders outside of […]
David speaks with former FBI agent Ali Soufan about his new book The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against al-Qaeda. As one of the few Arab speaking members of the FBI, this Lebanese-American was handed the task of interviewing key members of al-Qaeda in the days after 9/11. During his […]
David speaks with renown mystery novelist Sue Grafton, author of the Kinsey Millhone Mysteries. Dubbed the Alphabet Series, these detective stories feature titles starting with each letter of the alphabet. Grafton’s is now at the letter “V” with her most recent book, “V” Is For Vengeance. Original Air Date: 11-10-2011 [audio:http://1690wmlb.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/CWDL-Sue_Grafton_V_is_for_Vengeance.mp3]
David speaks with author Anne Kreamer about her new book It’s Always Personal: Emotion in the New Workplace. This books examines the role of emotion in a professional setting. Common knowledge tells us that getting emotional at work is wrong. Crying or showing any type of negative emotion makes a worker seem weak and unable to […]