Where to Find the Next Moonstones

Where to Find the Next Moonstones

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Radio Archive, Episode 783 , Segment 3

Episode: Health Care Mergers, Asian American Achievement, History of the Race Beat

  • Apr 4, 2018 11:00 pm
  • 16:57 mins

Guest: Daniel Moriarty, PhD, Postdoc researcher in planetary geology, NASA Shortly after the moon formed, something gigantic smacked into it, leaving a mark large enough to fit half of the continental United States. This crater takes up a quarter of the Moon’s surface. And scientists think it holds the keys to understanding the early days of the solar system.  They’re looking for the best landing site in the giant crater to collect Moon rocks that would reveal those secrets.

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History of the Race Beat

21 MINS

Guest: E.R. Shipp, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, Professor of Journalism, Morgan State University, Columnist, The Baltimore Sun Today marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. On Thursday afternoon, we’ll dive deeply into the Civil Rights leader’s legacy with the author of a King biography that won the Pulitzer Prize.  Right now, let’s get the perspective of another Pulitzer Prize winner – columnist E.R. Shipp – on how media coverage of race issues has evolved in the 50 years since King’s assassination and the release of something called the Kerner Report two months previously. Shipp was the first black woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. As a columnist for the New York Daily News, the Pulitzer committee commended her for “penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues."

Guest: E.R. Shipp, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, Professor of Journalism, Morgan State University, Columnist, The Baltimore Sun Today marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. On Thursday afternoon, we’ll dive deeply into the Civil Rights leader’s legacy with the author of a King biography that won the Pulitzer Prize.  Right now, let’s get the perspective of another Pulitzer Prize winner – columnist E.R. Shipp – on how media coverage of race issues has evolved in the 50 years since King’s assassination and the release of something called the Kerner Report two months previously. Shipp was the first black woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. As a columnist for the New York Daily News, the Pulitzer committee commended her for “penetrating columns on race, welfare and other social issues."