For Women’s History Month, Laura speaks to Blanche Wiesen Cook about Eleanor Roosevelt – the First Lady of the World – and why her work still resonates. Plus, a documentary by filmmaker Ross Watne on Arthurdale, the experimental, government-funded community Roosevelt championed in Depression-era West Virginia
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by Laura Flanders, The Real News Network
March 19, 2018
Laura Flanders is an Air America radio host and journalist. She is the author of Bushwomen: Tales of a Cynical Species and Real Majority, Media Minority: The Cost of Sidelining Women in Reporting. Flanders was the Founding Director of the Women's Desk at the media-watch group FAIR.
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