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Westminster Town Hall Forum
This archival collection highlights numerous Westminster Town Hall Forum speaking events that have been broadcast on MPR’s airwaves for over four decades.
Westminster Town Hall Forum has hosted a free and open public forum since 1980, with talks by some of the most important and inspiring speakers in the world. The organization’s mission with event is to invite voices of conscience to address the issues of the day from an ethical perspective.
17 Collection Items
- Westminster Townhall Forum: Michael Lerner - Transcending Racism and Hate
Midday presents a live broadcast of the Westminster Town Hall Forum, featuring author Rabbi Michael Lerner. The title of his presentation is “Transcending Racism and Hate.”
- Westminster Town Hall Forum: Gordon Parks - A Life of Art
Midday presents a Westminster Town Hall Forum with writer, photographer, and artist Gordon Parks. His address is entitled “A Life of Art.” Parks recalls his family, time in St. Paul, and his art. Following the speech, Parks answers audience questions.
- Westminster Town Hall Forum: David McCullough - American Society, Civil and Uncivil
Midday presents a live broadcast of the Westminster Town Hall Forum, featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough. His lecture is entitled, “American Society: Civil and Uncivil.”
- Westminster Town Hall Forum: Juan Williams - Eyes on the Prize
Midday presents a live broadcast of the Westminster Town Hall Forum, featuring author and Washington Post editorialist Juan Williams. Williams talks about the absence of the issue of race in presidential politics.
- Westminster Town Hall Forum: E. J. Dionne - Why Americans Hate Politics
Midday presents a live broadcast of the Westminster Town Hall Forum, featuring Washington Post political writer E. J. Dionne. His speech is on why Americans hate politics.
- Westminster Town Hall Forum: Dr. Abraham Verghese - Communities Respond to the AIDS Crisis
Midday presents a Westminster Town Hall Forum speech, featuring Dr. Abraham Verghese, of Texas Tech University. Verghese speaks about a community's response to AIDS. Verghese is author of My Own Country: A Doctor's Story.
- Westminster Town Hall Forum: Frances Moore Lappe - Rebuilding Our Nation, Remaking Our Lives
Midday presents a Westminster Town Hall Forum with Frances Moore Lappe speaking at the Westminster Town Hall Forum. Lappe’s address is entitled "Rebuilding Our Nation, Remaking Our Lives."
- Westminster Town Hall Forum: Cornel West - The Politics of Race in America
Midday presents Dr. Cornell West, a professor of religion and director of Afro-American Studies Department at Princeton, speaking at the Westminster Town Hall Forum. West’s speech is entitled "The Politics of Race in America."
- Westminster Town Hall Forum: Amy Tan - Ethnic Correctness and it's Toll on Literature
Midday presents author Amy Tan, author of the bestseller The Joy Luck Club, speaking at the Westminster Town Hall Forum on how "ethnic correctness", as she puts it, is taking its toll on literature.
- Westminster Town Hall Forum: Isabel Allende - Latin America, Romance, and Reality
Midday presents a Westminster Town Hall Forum with Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende. Her address is entitled “Latin America, Romance, and Reality.”