Springfield Public Forum

Shields & Brooks: NewsHour

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Mark Shields and David Brooks provide weekly political analysis and commentary on national campaigns for the award-winning NewsHour on PBS

Robin Wright

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Robin Wright bio information

Sustainable Cities

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fuel the firea discussion with Henry Cisneros

Executive Chairman of CityView and former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

TAYLOR BRANCH: CIVIL RIGHTS ERA

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Branch is an American Pulitzer Prize winning author and public speaker best known for his landmark trilogy on the civil rights era, America in the King Years. He began his career as a magazine journalist for The Washington Monthly in 1970, moving later to Harper’s and Esquire.

PETER GALBRAITH: DIPLOMATIC

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Author, academic, commentator, policy advisor, and former United States diplomat. Served as the first U.S. Ambassador to Croatia and is currently the Senior Diplomatic Fellow at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.

ROBERT SATLOFF: ARAB & ISLAMIC POLITICS

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An expert on Arab and Islamic politics as well as U.S. Middle East policy, Dr. Satloff has written and spoken widely on the Arab-Israeli peace process, the Islamist challenge to the growth of democracy in the region. Currently the executive director of The Washington Institute.

PAUL RUSESABAGINA: HUMANITARIAN

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Rwandan humanitarian who has been internationally honored for saving 1,268 refugees during the Rwandan Genocide. He resisted the madness that surrounded him and quietly sheltered Tutsis and moderate Hutus within the walls of the luxury hotel he managed.

ROGER MUDD: CORRESPONDENT

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Documentary host and correspondent for The History Channel from 1995 until he retired in 2004. Between 1961 to 1992, Mudd was a Washington correspondent for CBS News, NBC News and the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour on PBS.

JAMES MCLURKIN: SWARM ROBOTICS

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An engineering professor at Rice University specializing in swarm robotics. McLurkin and his robots were featured on a PBS Nova episode in 2005.

GEOFFREY CANADA: ACTIVIST

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Canada is a social activist and educator. Since 1990, he has been president and CEO of the Harlem Children’s Zone in Harlem, New York, an organization which states its goal is to increase high school and college graduation rates among students in Harlem.