This week on The Exchange, we hear from some Morningside University students in a history class where they are studying genocide, and the current loss of life in Ukraine.
Students in Rabbi Green’s class are comparing the history of genocide and the situation in Ukraine today. Russian President Vladamire Putin continues to bombard civilians.
And speaking of tyrants, we talk with the author of a new book about some famous and not so famous tyrants and near-tyrants yesterday and today. Andrew Fiala is the author of Tyranny From Plato to Trump.
And we talk with the author of a new novel in the style of George Orwell’s Animal Farm set in Zimbabwe in the time of that country’s tyrannical leader Robert Mugabe. NoViolet Bulawayo is the author of Glory.
Many concerned Siouxland citizens are still talking about the recent visit of attorney and self-described constitutional expert Kris anne Hall a few weeks ago. Hall conducted a training with Woodbury County Sheriff’s deputies and a public session at Woodbury County Community College.
The Director of the Human Rights Commission Karen Mackey shares her thoughts on the visit of Hall. She tells Siouxland Public Media’s Sheila Brummer about her concerns surrounding the message delivered to community members and a training session for members of the Woodbury County Sheriff’s Office on March 11th and 12th.
And we remember the nation's first Native American physician, Susan Le Fleshe Picotte, in a Small Wonder from Jim Scrap. Le Fleshe Picotte was from Walthill, Nebraska. She is widely acknowledged as one of the first Indigenous peoples, and the first Indigenous woman, to earn a medical degree.[2] She campaigned for public health and for the formal, legal allotment of landto members of the Omaha tribe.
