Stuart Kelter interviews Patrick Parr, an historian and biographer of writers and civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr., James Baldwin, Kurt Vonnegut, Ralph Ellison, and Kato Shidzue. Teaching in Japan since 2018, he currently writes a history column for Japan Today, about historical figures or businesses coming to Japan for the first time. His new book, Malcolm Before X, provides an in-depth accounting of Malcolm X’s family history, childhood, and transformative experiences during his six year incarceration in his early 20s. The book was published this past December and was named A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of 2024
 This week’s guest on the Mesilla Valley Sports Show is Scott Fister. Scott has been a coach, organizer, manager, and promoter for the sport of track and field in Las Cruces for over 25 years. He is also an organizer for the upcoming State 47 Las Cruces Marathon.
Walt and Peter chat with Dr. Mark Lusk and Kyle Boyd about immigration. Dr. Lusk teaches at UTEP. Kyle Boyd is a Deputy Director for the Border Servant Corps.
Walt and Peter visit with Algernon D’Ammassa, editor of the Las Cruces Bulletin. How is covering Las Cruces these days? They also discuss the Attorney General’s recent warning to the City of Las Cruces concerning the Open Meetings Law—an issue Algernon and the Bulletin first raised.
Stuart Kelter interviews Jonas Olofsson, a professor at Stockholm University in Sweden, where he directs the Sensory Cognitive Interaction Lab, with a particular focus on the sense of smell, as well as its loss, as it interacts with memory, emotion, language, and information processing. He is the author of the recent book, The Forgotten Sense: The New Science of Smell and the Extraordinary Power of the Nose, which is the subject of today’s interview.
On the very last Café con Leche program of the year, Greg was pleased to be talking with Heather Pollard and Mary Kay Papen about a range of efforts they've participated in and led over the past several decades. Particular attention will be focused on the Taylor-Mesilla Historic Site, but the support for Mesilla Valley Hospice through The Emporium and other community endeavors will also be discussed.
We thank sponsors Penny Peace and George Ivolin of Mad Hatter Gallery for their ongoing support. Last March, New Mexico State University, Dona Ana County and the city of Las Cruces were all searching for new leaders.
NMSU conducted a national search, attracting applications from college administrators throughout the country. The finalists were brought to Las Cruces for a rigorous and transparent interview process. When regents were unhappy with the first batch of finalists, instead of settling for someone they didn’t really want, they had the courage to start over. Randy's conversation with Bill McCamley is a thought-provoking dive into a wide array of considerations, including:
Immigration The Covid Pandemic Cultural and Personal Transitions Politics Our Economy Education Youth and Elders Government Democracy White Men In America Today Potential Positive Actions in 2025 Stuart Kelter interviews Farhad Khosrokhavar, a retired professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris, whose work focuses on the social movements in Iran after the Islamic Revolution, the uprisings during the Arab Spring of 2010-12, the Jihadist movements in France and the rest of Europe, and the philosophical foundations of the social sciences. He has published more than 30 books, eight of which were either translated or directly written in English, some translated into several languages, and has also written around 100 articles in French and English, which have been translated into German, Italian, Spanish, Arabic, and Persian. His latest book, Revolt Against Theocracy: The Mahsa Movement and the Feminist Uprising in Iran, is the focus of today's interview.
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