Diane Orson
Special CorrespondentDiane Orson is a special correspondent with 海角换妻. She is a longtime reporter and contributor to National Public Radio. Her stories have been heard on Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition, Here and Now; and The World from PRX. She spent seven years as CT Public Radio's local host for Morning Edition.
Diane received a regional 2024 Edward R. Murrow Award for Excellence in Writing by the Radio Television Digital News Association. She was awarded a 2023 New England Emmy for , which she co-produced and hosted.
Her radio story about an 83-year old atomic veteran placed first in the Public Media Journalists Association 2021 national arts awards. She is the co-recipient of a 2021 Edward R. Murrow Award for a video based on that story.
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In the wake of the Texas school shooting, Monsignor Robert Weiss of St. Rose of Lima Church in Newtown talks about faith in the face of tragedy. He presided over the funerals of eight first-graders killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. -
The International Festival of Arts and Ideas will feature a discussion about barriers women face when returning home from prison 鈥� with women who have been through the experience. -
Former Polish President Lech Walesa spoke Tuesday at a World Affairs Council forum in Hartford. He talked about the Ukrainian refugee crisis in Poland and the Russian threat. -
Samson Occom was sent to Europe to raise funds for a school for Native American students, but the money was diverted to found Dartmouth College. Now a step toward reconciliation.
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The Mohegan Tribe long wanted Dartmouth College to return a collection of Samson Occom鈥檚 handwritten papers. -
鈥淚 sincerely hope this gesture will be one more step in our reconciliation for the disappointment Occom experienced,鈥� the Dartmouth College president said.
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Samson Occom was the first Native American student of Eleazar Wheelock, founder of Dartmouth College. In the 1760s, at Wheelock's urging, Occom traveled to Europe to raise funds for what he believed would be a school for Native American students. But Wheelock diverted the funds toward a college for white settlers, later named Dartmouth College. The documents to be repatriated include what is believed to be the earliest example of written Mohegan language. -
This hour on Disrupted, a conversation with NAACP 海角换妻 President Scot X Esdaile about the role the NAACP plays in our modern society. Plus, how student loan debt is hurting people of color. -
Yale University Art Gallery delivered stolen artifacts valued at more than $1 million to the New York District Attorney's Office. This comes amid a long-running investigation into suspected art trafficker Subhash Kapoor.
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Yale Professor Harold Hongju Koh talks about his recent argument on behalf of Ukraine at the International Court of Justice at The Hague.
