WAMC’s Alan Chartock hosts this encore Power of Words. Chartock speaks with Professor and Author Allida Black on First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s Declaration of Human Rights Speech. (more…)

This week we present an encore program: WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with Dr. Amy Bass. Bass is a Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at New Rochelle College and Author of "One Goal: A Coach, a Team, and the Game that Brought a Divided Town Together."Additionally, Bass is a WAMC commentator. Photo courtesy of Dr. Amy Bass.

This week, in honor of Memorial Day we present an encore broadcast. WAMC’s Dr. Alan Chartock speaks with Dr. Ivan Steen and Dr. Ann Pfau, about the infamous invasion during WWll. Photo courtesy of Flickr/DVIDSHUB.

This week, we present an encore broadcast. WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with longtime music journalist Jesse Jarnow. Jarnow is the author of the book, "Wasn’t That A Time: The Weavers, The Blacklist, and The Battle for the Soul of America." Photo courtesy of Da Capo Press.

This week we present an encore broadcast. WAMC's Dr. Alan Chartock speaks with clarinetist, award-winning photographer, and author Arlene Alda about her book, "Just Kids from the Bronx: Telling It the Way It Was: An Oral History." Photo courtesy of Henry Holt & Co. Publishing/ MacMillan Publishing.

WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan, a Democrat who just began her third term.

This week we present an encore interview. WAMC's Alan Chartock speaks with Hedi McKinley, Holocaust survivor, social worker, and long-time WAMC volunteer.

This week we present an encore broadcast. Alan Chartock speaks with Joshua Rubenstein. Rubenstein is the author of "Leon Trotsky: A Revolutionary’s Life." Photo courtesy of Yale University Press.

A 2013 encore conversation with WAMC's Alan Chartock and Dr. David Nasaw, author of the New York Times best-selling book "The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy." Photo courtesy of Penguin Random House.

This week we present an encore broadcast: WAMC’s Alan Chartock In Conversation with the late, award-winning director and producer Arthur Penn. Dr. Arthur Penn was born on September 27, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Penn was most known for Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Little Big Man (1970) and The Miracle Worker (1962). He died on September 28, 2010 in Manhattan, New York City, New York. Photo courtesy of United Artists Corporation c. 1976.