An era ended with the  repeal of ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and professor Aaron Belkin talks about what finally brought the policy down in How We Won. Then, was an innocent man executed last week in Georgia? Diann Rust-Tierney with the National Coalition Against the Death Penalty joins us.

The Secrets of the FBI, by bestselling author Ronald Kessler reveals the FBI’s most closely guarded secrets and the secrets of celebrities, politicians, and movie stars uncovered by agents during their investigations.

After World War I, black soldiers believed their participation in the fight for democracy earned them rights they had been promised since the close of the Civil War. Instead, a wave of riots and lynchings swept the country for eight months. Cameron McWhirter chronicles the mayhem in Red Summer, the first narrative history written about this epic encounter.

Columbia University Professor Dr. Manning Marable, died just days before the publication of Malcolm X which is filled with new information and shocking revelations that go beyond his autobiography. Zaheer Ali, one of the key researchers who worked with Dr. Marable on the biography joins Culture Shocks to talk about the book.

Bill Zimmerman recounts the radicalization via beatnikism, the civil rights movement, and antiwar protests that led him in 1969 to renounce a promising psychology professorship and become a full-time antiwar activist in Troublemaker.

Could real estate mogul Donald Trump and now “birther”  be considering a presidential bid in 2012?  Charles Dunn, professor at Regent University says his candidacy will help to re-elect Obama.  Then, a lawsuit has been filed that challenges the discriminatory view that transgender men cannot work as men. Michael Silverman with Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund talks about he case.

T.J. English’s most recent book is The Savage City, a blistering account of racial hostilities between the New York Police Department and the Black Liberation movement in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Sonny Ochs, the sister of  60′s folk singer, Phil Ochs talks about her brother and the Kenneth Bowser documentary, Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune detailing his life and music.

How serious is it that Japan cannot cool down its nuclear reactors after the recent earthquake? Robert Musil, former director of  Physicians for Social Responsibility and author of  Hope for a Heated Planet tells us what could happen. Then, the Southern Poverty Law Center has recently updated its list of hate groups in the United States. Heidi Beirich will tell us which groups have garnered some controversy.

Felice Gelman, a peace and justice activist with WESPAC talks about joining Egyptian protesters in solidarity last week in Cairo. Later, Dr. Harold Weaver, co-editor of Black Fire which captures the voices of 18 African Americans within the Quaker community about their viewpoints on racial justice joins us.