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Free online lectures: Explore a world of ideas

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Public Broadcasting Atlanta's (PBA) Forum Network is an online, on-demand archive of discussions given by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy-makers and community leaders. These discussion events are hosted by cultural and educational organizations in metro Atlanta and beyond. Through the Forum Network, people across the world can now listen and watch these events online. We encourage our audience to browse our featured, new, and popular lectures. Explore all lectures by Topics, Series, Partners, and Speakers. To provide our viewers with added information lectures are further augmented with speaker biographies, related lectures and books, captions and transcripts, and downloadable audio. **About Atlanta Public Broadcasting ** Great cities are known by their museums, theaters, symphonies and parks. But the greatest impact on a city's cultural life radiates invisibly through the air. For Atlanta, that cultural force is Public Broadcasting Atlanta. WABE 90.1 FM and PBA 30, brings NPR News, music, the arts and PBS programming to hundreds of thousands of listeners and viewers each year. Today, people turn to public broadcasting for their news, music, arts and entertainment. Yet, few people realize that public broadcasting began as "educational television" -- strictly a learning resource. As a broadcast service of Atlanta Public Schools in partnership with the Atlanta Educational Telecommunications Collaborative (AETC), PBA has never lost sight of its original mission. Education remains at the core of our operation at every level, from preschoolers to our elders.

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  • Kai Ryssdal discusses the business and financial program *Marketplace* and what's happening in the world of business.
    Partner:
    PBA
  • Elaine Brown talks about her history as a leader of the Black Panthers, and about her current work with the Michael Lewis Legal Defense Committee. This lecture is presented by the The University of Georgia.
    Partner:
    PBA
  • Host of the book review show* Between the Lines*, Valerie Jackson and Juan Williams discuss his involvement with *Eyes on the Prize* and his new book *Enough: The Phony Leaders, Dead End Movements, and Culture of Failure that are Undermining Black America and What We Can Do About it*.
    Partner:
    PBA
  • As Mayor Kasim Reed prepares to select a new police chief, he hosts a town hall meeting with the three finalists for the job — Dr. Cedric L. Alexander, federal security director for the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport; City of Atlanta Interim Police Chief George N. Turner; and Louisville Police Chief Robert Crump White. The mayor begins with a brief overview of their qualifications. Deidra Dukes of Fox 5 and Bill Nigut, a former political reporter who now heads the Anti-Defamation League’s efforts in the South, ask questions of the three finalists. Dukes and Nigut also ask Alexander, Turner and White questions submitted by residents.
    Partner:
    PBA
  • At this Cobb County neighborhood forum, Jane Hayes, Chief of Transportation Planning and Finance for the Atlanta Regional Commission, discusses the region's sustainability. This is the first of four planned neighborhood forums. She talks about air quality, water availability, transportation projects, and green space. She presents a vision for the growth of the region.
    Partner:
    PBA
  • Basketball Legend Chris Webber talks with freshman students at Atlanta's Grady High School on how to go through a process of achieving career goals. He tells kids that the thing that's your hobby today, might be your talent. Find something that you love to do, find people that you love to work with who will encourage you, don't listen to the "haters" when they say you can't do it, write a list of all the negative things and the reasons that you shouldn't make it, and then go get what you are looking for.
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    PBA
  • Don Walker, former Delta Airlines pilot, talks about Situational Awareness to a class at Atlanta's Grady High School. Don explains why "texting while driving" will get you killed--sucking you in with what's known in the airline industry as "Target Fixation". He also talks about the importance of writing down your plans, and learning how to adapt those plans when necessary, so that you can achieve your goals.
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    PBA
  • Phil Newman, manager of Distributed Products for The Weather Channel, describes his job of finding new places to present weather information to drive traffic back to weather.com. He discusses his career with a group of students at Atlanta's Grady High School as part of a project called gradytalks.info.
    Partner:
    PBA
  • Jeff Johnson, Executive Director of Community Affairs/On-Air Talent at Peachtree TV/WPCH-TV, tells a group of students at Atlanta's Grady High School how to embrace change and start their career by making a good impression and being yourself.
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    PBA
  • Heidi Day, founder and executive director of Chayil, Inc., talks to a group of Grady High School students about a recent random act of violence--Bobby Tilman's Murder--and how the students at a party stood idly by and didn't stop his killing. Heidi talks about "Group Think" and how the party participants contributed to his death.
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    PBA