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The Burning Shore By Ed Offley chats with Dr. Alvin

Ed Offley Click Here To Listen On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began to sink. Then a small escort warship blew apart in a violent explosion. Navy warships and aircraft peppered the water with depth charges, but to no avail. Within the next twenty-four hours, a fourth ship lay at the bottom of the channel— all victims of twenty-nine-year-old Kapitänleutnant Horst Degen and his crew aboard the German U-boat U-701. In The [...]

By |April 28th, 2014|Biography, History, Military, War|Comments Off on The Burning Shore By Ed Offley chats with Dr. Alvin
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I Rhoda By Valerie Harper chats with Dr. Alvin

Valerie Harper Click Here To Listen Valerie Harper is best known for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and on Rhoda. The winner of four Emmys, as well as a Golden Globe for her role in Rhoda, Harper has been celebrated by fans and peers alike for her work as an actor. Most recently Harper released a heartwarming memoir “I, RHODA.” Filled with charming anecdotes and inspirational stories, “I, RHODA” is the memoir of a certain type of woman– forward-thinking, independent, smart, and inspiring – everything Valerie Harper is. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband.

By |April 28th, 2014|Biography, Entertainment, Movies, Music, Television|Comments Off on I Rhoda By Valerie Harper chats with Dr. Alvin
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Cheryl Burke Of ABC’s DWTS chats with Dr. Alvin

Cheryl Burke Click Here To Listen Cheryl has won over audiences with her creative choreography and effervescent personality. We suspect her dangerously low cut dresses might have something to do with it, too. Joining the show in the second season with a bang, Cheryl won back-to-back disco ball trophies with partner Drew Lachey in Season 2, and then with Emmitt Smith in Season 3, and had a second place finish with Rob Kardashian in Season 13, and another one in Season 14 with William Levy. But don't let her sweet smile fool you—this girl has some sizzling hot moves and knows just how to show them off! "We want people to think something is going [...]

By |April 26th, 2014|African Americans, Biography, Entertainment, Music, Television|Comments Off on Cheryl Burke Of ABC’s DWTS chats with Dr. Alvin
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A Sliver Of Light by Joshua Fattal chats with Dr. Alvin

Joshua Fattal Three young Americans captured by Iranian forces and held in captivity for two years tell their story. In summer 2009, Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd were hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan when they unknowingly crossed into Iran and were captured by a border patrol. Accused of espionage, the three Americans ultimately found themselves in Tehran’s infamous Evin Prison, where they discovered that pooling their strength of will and relying on each other were the only ways they could survive. In this poignant memoir, “the hikers” finally tell their side of the story. They recount the deception that lured them into Iran in the first place and describe the psychological torment of interrogation and solitary confinement. We [...]

By |April 25th, 2014|Biography, Politics, War|Comments Off on A Sliver Of Light by Joshua Fattal chats with Dr. Alvin
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Respect Yourself: Stax Records And The Soul Explosion by Robert Gordon chats with Dr. Alvin

Robert Gordon Click Here To Listen The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960’s segregated south Memphis.

By |April 24th, 2014|African Americans, Biography, Entertainment, Music|Comments Off on Respect Yourself: Stax Records And The Soul Explosion by Robert Gordon chats with Dr. Alvin
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Louis Armstrong: Master Of Modernism by Thomas Brothers chats with Dr. Alvin

Thomas Brothers Click Here To Listen The definitive account of Louis Armstrong—his life and legacy—during the most creative period of his career. Nearly 100 years after bursting onto Chicago’s music scene under the tutelage of Joe "King" Oliver, Louis Armstrong is recognized as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. A trumpet virtuoso, seductive crooner, and consummate entertainer, Armstrong laid the foundation for the future of jazz with his stylistic innovations, but his story would be incomplete without examining how he struggled in a society seething with brutally racist ideologies, laws, and practices. Thomas Brothers picks up where he left off with the acclaimed Louis Armstrong's New Orleans, following the story of [...]

By |April 24th, 2014|African Americans, Biography, Entertainment, Movies, Music, Politics, Television|Comments Off on Louis Armstrong: Master Of Modernism by Thomas Brothers chats with Dr. Alvin
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Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, And Death In The Spanish Civil War by Amanda Vaill chats with Dr. Alvin

Amanda Vaill Click Here To Listen Madrid, 1936. In a city blasted by a civil war that many fear will cross borders and engulf Europe—a conflict one writer will call “the decisive thing of the century”—six people meet and find their lives changed forever. Ernest Hemingway, his career stalled, his marriage sour, hopes that this war will give him fresh material and new romance; Martha Gellhorn, an ambitious novice journalist hungry for love and experience, thinks she will find both with Hemingway in Spain. Robert Capa and Gerda Taro, idealistic young photographers based in Paris, want to capture history in the making and are inventing modern photojournalism in the process. And Arturo Barea, chief of [...]

By |April 24th, 2014|Biography, History, Relationships, War|Comments Off on Hotel Florida: Truth, Love, And Death In The Spanish Civil War by Amanda Vaill chats with Dr. Alvin
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Alyssa Sutherland of History’s Vikings chats with Dr. Alvin

Alyssa Sutherland Click Here To Listen Alyssa Sutherland is an Australian-born actress, model and is Princess Aslaug on the History Channel series Vikings.  

By |April 23rd, 2014|Biography, History, Television|Comments Off on Alyssa Sutherland of History’s Vikings chats with Dr. Alvin
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Andy Daly of Comedy Central’s Review chats with Dr. Alvin

Andy Daily Click Here To Listen Andy Daly is an American actor, writer and comedian who is currently starring in the Comedy Central series Review.  

By |April 23rd, 2014|Biography, Entertainment, Movies, Television|Comments Off on Andy Daly of Comedy Central’s Review chats with Dr. Alvin
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Greer Grammer of MTV’s Awkward chats with Dr. Alvin

Greer Grammer Click Here To Listen Greer Grammer is an American actress and former beauty queen. She is best known for her role as Lissa in the hit series, Awkward which airs on MTV.  

By |April 23rd, 2014|Biography, Entertainment, Movies, Music, Television, Youth|Comments Off on Greer Grammer of MTV’s Awkward chats with Dr. Alvin
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