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Larry Echohawk, Advisor to the Utah Governor and Utah Attorney General's Office for Indian Affairs, explains the origins of the Indian Child Welfare Act, the current Supreme Court challenge to it, and the arguments for and against proposed legislation to make the Utah Indian Child Welfare Act a state law.

Larry Echohawk, Advisor to the Utah Governor and Utah Attorney General's Office for Indian Affairs, explains the origins of the Indian Child Welfare Act, the current Supreme Court challenge to it, and the arguments for and against proposed legislation to make the Utah Indian Child Welfare Act a state law.

Since its national debut in 1987, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been a highly acclaimed and much adored weekday magazine among public radio listeners. Each week, nearly 4.8 million people turn to Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross for insightful conversations with the leading voices in contemporary arts and issues. The renowned program reaches a global audience, with over 620 public radio stations broadcasting Fresh Air, and 3 million podcast downloads each week. Fresh Air has broken the mold of 'talk show' by weaving together superior journalism and intimate storytelling from modern-day intellectuals, politicians and artists alike. Through probing questions and careful research, Gross's interviews are lauded for revealing a fresh perspective on cultural icons and trends. Her thorough conversations are often complemented by commentary from well-known contributors. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR., (1.) Director GINA PRINCE-BYTHEWOOD. She directed the Netflix film 'The Old Guard,' which is already among the top ten most popular Netflix films ever. She's the first black woman to direct an adaptation of comic book. BYTHEWOOD also directed. She also directed 'Love and Basketball,' about a young woman obsessed with the game, and 'Beyond the Lights' about a young music star, pressured to project a hyper-sexualized image. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES THRU THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW).

Since its national debut in 1987, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been a highly acclaimed and much adored weekday magazine among public radio listeners. Each week, nearly 4.8 million people turn to Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross for insightful conversations with the leading voices in contemporary arts and issues. The renowned program reaches a global audience, with over 620 public radio stations broadcasting Fresh Air, and 3 million podcast downloads each week. Fresh Air has broken the mold of 'talk show' by weaving together superior journalism and intimate storytelling from modern-day intellectuals, politicians and artists alike. Through probing questions and careful research, Gross's interviews are lauded for revealing a fresh perspective on cultural icons and trends. Her thorough conversations are often complemented by commentary from well-known contributors. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR., (1.) KRISTEN HOWERTON talks about her experiences as a white mother of two adopted black sons, and two biological white daughters and about what this taught her about white privilege. Her new book is 'Rage Against the Minivan', which is also the name of her blog. It's about miscarriage, birth, adoption, being the daughter of pastor, and then the wife of a pastor, then leaving the church, and it's about race, and what she learned about white privilege. Howerton is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She cohosts the podcast Selfie. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW). (2.) DAVID BIANCULLI reviews HBO's new 8 part mini-series 'Perry Mason' starring Matthew Rhys.

Between 1955 and 1985, approximately forty-five thousand closed stranger adoptions took place in Aotearoa New Zealand, with adoption directly affecting twenty-five per cent of the total population. A significant proportion of closed stranger adoptions involved children who could claim Māori ancestry through at least one of their birth parents. The majority of these Māori children were placed within Pākehā families. This research explored the narratives of six self-identified Māori adults who were adopted into Pākehā families by way of closed stranger adoption. The study utilised a Māori-centred research approach, and a thematic narrative analysis of the participants’ accounts was undertaken. The study found that adoption is not a one off event, but is an on-going life experience. The multiple and complex ways the participants narrated their cross-cultural adoption experience reflected the diverse and contradictory narratives Māori adopted into Pākehā families navigate. The narratives clustered around the idea of ‘walking between worlds’, with two major themes of ‘belonging’ and ‘whakapapa’ emerging from the analysis process. Participants told stories on a continuum between ‘belonging’ and ‘not belonging’ within their birth and adoptive families, and in Māori and non-Māori worlds. Specific to Māori in Aotearoa New Zealand is ‘belonging’ through whakapapa. Whakapapa is essential to a Māori identity and to whānau inclusion. This study found that without knowledge of whakapapa, Māori become socially and culturally invisible within te ao Māori. In the telling of these narratives, participants have sought to repair the rupture in their lives when the dominant familial narrative of growing up in a birth family with a shared cultural heritage was not possible. For Māori adopted into Pākehā families, their identities as Māori and as adopted people are inseparable.

Since its national debut in 1987, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been a highly acclaimed and much adored weekday magazine among public radio listeners. Each week, nearly 4.8 million people turn to Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross for insightful conversations with the leading voices in contemporary arts and issues. The renowned program reaches a global audience, with over 620 public radio stations broadcasting Fresh Air, and 3 million podcast downloads each week. Fresh Air has broken the mold of 'talk show' by weaving together superior journalism and intimate storytelling from modern-day intellectuals, politicians and artists alike. Through probing questions and careful research, Gross's interviews are lauded for revealing a fresh perspective on cultural icons and trends. Her thorough conversations are often complemented by commentary from well-known contributors. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR., (1.) Writer JOHN SEABROOK. He writes in the March 10, 2010 issue of The New Yorker (The Last Baby Lift) about the history of international adoption and his and his wife's experiences with it. They were in the process of adopting a baby girl from Haiti when the country was hit by the massive earthquake in January. (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW). (2.) Jazz critic KEVIN WHITEHEAD reviews Solo Piano (ECM) the mini-box reissue of Chick Corea's which includes his albums from 1971 and 1983: Improvisations 1 & 2 and Children's Songs.

My thesis, "Love and Violence in Transracial/national Adoption," examines a New York Times special transracial adoption blog series, "Relative Choices," to critically interrogate how love and violence operate in adoption discourse. In doing so, it explores two main questions: How have transracial/national adoptions been posited in the past and how does that inform current articulations? Second, how would a global/historical framework help rethink transracial/national adoptions beyond one based on the local/present? Specifically, I am interested in how a global/historical framework, on a larger level, disrupts our understandings of narratives of love, inclusion and progress and, on an individual family or particular level, how does such a framework challenge the strict constructions of the family, and then lastly, on both levels how does it reveal the productive violence at play? I argue that the normative narrative of adoption discourse has shifted from assimilation overdrive to the embracement of colorblindness and liberal multiculturalism through claims of inclusion, progression, and revolution. The condition of possibility for these assertions is mobilized by the ability of many adoptive supporters, parents and even adoptees to strategically place adoption in a local/ present framework. This positioning individualizes, depoliticizes, ahistoricizes transracial/national adoption, and it enables love to operate as the encompassing and guiding principle for adoption. While the concept and role of love is no doubt integral to the act (commitment) and process of adoption, its presence and hypervisibility obscures how the global and historical play important roles in shaping adoption. Specifically, the local/present framework erases and obfuscates the productive and political symbolic violence of transracial/national adoption.

My thesis, "Love and Violence in Transracial/national Adoption," examines a New York Times special transracial adoption blog series, "Relative Choices," to critically interrogate how love and violence operate in adoption discourse. In doing so, it explores two main questions: How have transracial/national adoptions been posited in the past and how does that inform current articulations? Second, how would a global/historical framework help rethink transracial/national adoptions beyond one based on the local/present? Specifically, I am interested in how a global/historical framework, on a larger level, disrupts our understandings of narratives of love, inclusion and progress and, on an individual family or particular level, how does such a framework challenge the strict constructions of the family, and then lastly, on both levels how does it reveal the productive violence at play? I argue that the normative narrative of adoption discourse has shifted from assimilation overdrive to the embracement of colorblindness and liberal multiculturalism through claims of inclusion, progression, and revolution. The condition of possibility for these assertions is mobilized by the ability of many adoptive supporters, parents and even adoptees to strategically place adoption in a local/ present framework. This positioning individualizes, depoliticizes, ahistoricizes transracial/national adoption, and it enables love to operate as the encompassing and guiding principle for adoption. While the concept and role of love is no doubt integral to the act (commitment) and process of adoption, its presence and hypervisibility obscures how the global and historical play important roles in shaping adoption. Specifically, the local/present framework erases and obfuscates the productive and political symbolic violence of transracial/national adoption.

Since its national debut in 1987, Fresh Air with Terry Gross has been a highly acclaimed and much adored weekday magazine among public radio listeners. Each week, nearly 4.8 million people turn to Peabody Award-winning host Terry Gross for insightful conversations with the leading voices in contemporary arts and issues. The renowned program reaches a global audience, with over 620 public radio stations broadcasting Fresh Air, and 3 million podcast downloads each week. Fresh Air has broken the mold of 'talk show' by weaving together superior journalism and intimate storytelling from modern-day intellectuals, politicians and artists alike. Through probing questions and careful research, Gross's interviews are lauded for revealing a fresh perspective on cultural icons and trends. Her thorough conversations are often complemented by commentary from well-known contributors. Fresh Air is produced at WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and broadcast nationally by NPR., (1.) Actor JAMES FRANCO. He plays Harvey Milk's longtime companion in the new film Milk, starring Sean Penn in the title role. Franco got his big break on the short lived but critically acclaimed TV show Freaks and Geeks. He went on to play Harry Osborn in all three Spiderman films. Prior to Milk, he was in Pineapple Express, and he's going to play Alan Ginsburg in the upcoming film Howl.(THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE SHOW.) (2.) Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN reviews A Mercy, Toni Morrison's new novel. Maureen says it's being hailed as a sort of prequel to Beloved.

This thesis studies the experiences of ten married couples in New Zealand, in particular the women, who have completed the process of adopting a child or children from overseas. It has two main objectives: first to highlight the role of the woman within a married couple applying to adopt intercountry; and second, to note any gender differences in the experience and perception of this process and the issues involved. The research design for this study followed the approach of eidetic phenomenology which focuses on the perceptions and meanings that people use to interpret their own experiences. Data were collected using in-depth, audiotaped personal interviews with the participants, and detailed case notes made during the interview. Personal observations after each interview were also used. The data were analysed using content analysis with cross-case groupings of responses into themes. The findings indicate that women are the main instigators and organisers in the process of achieving an intercountry adoption. Within this role the women often felt unsupported by both professionals and organisations involved. The findings also indicate areas for further research and review for professional practice and policy, in order to provide more effective and supportive assistance throughout the process of adopting a child or children from overseas.

Thomas L. Riggs wrote to Anna Riggs (sister) on April 11, 1869 to mourn their recently deceased mother. Must of the initial section of the letter discusses Thomas and Anna's childhood. Thomas comments on his plan to visit in mid-June. He also mentions a desire to bring a promising ten year old black boy back with him so the child might be "well raised." Thomas then returns to discussing memories of their mother and his regret for not returning home more often. Thomas concludes the letter by reiterating a lesson from their father, "put into practice the teaching of her life.", The Thomas L. Riggs Papers, available at the Center for Western Studies, document the activities of Thomas Riggs, the Indian workers, and missionaries in his charge. Other material in the collection also cover the work of Alfred L. Riggs at the Santee Normal Training School and the work of the Presbyterian missionary John P. Williamson. This collection is arranged in three series: correspondence; notes, manuscripts, talks, and reports; and an 1938 - 1946 account book.