This week features two significant, engaging and funny interviews about freedom, the quest for it, the human practice of enslaving others, and the travails of migration between Mexico and the US.  We do not limit ourselves to 140 characters of calulated insults or lies;  rather we seek illumination through thoughtfulness, imagination, humor, and truth.

Nobel Laureate TONI MORRISON discusses the human history of slavery and how telling stories and making music keeps human creativity alive in dire times. She is the author of Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and Song of Solomon.

LUIS ALBERTO URREA researched a brilliant and moving account of the "walkers" who seek to cross the infernal heat of the Southwest Desert and encounter the Border Patrol.  Luis finds human stories on both sides of the border.

With Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir. 

Sedge’s flâneur files.