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It’s Monday, January 14 – From HPR2, it’s The Conversation…

A minority is a terrible thing to waste...

Shawn Kanaiaupuni, Ph.D. is a demographer/research scientist at Kamehameha Schools. She is also on the clinical faculty of the Public Health Sciences & Epidemiology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a member of the affiliate graduate faculty of the Department of Sociology at UH-Manoa. Tomorrow, Tuesday January 15^th, she'll be getting some insight about increasing native Hawaii college graduation rates from five presidents of traditionally black universities.

Hooray for Bollywood, the sequel, the prequel and then some...
Dr. Sai Bhatawadekar was a member of the comittee that put together the 6^th Annual Bollywood Film Festival at the Honolulu Museum of Art.  She is Assistant Professor of Hindi and Urdu at University of Hawaii and founder of the Indian Dance troupe Aaja Nachle.

At the crossroads of indigenous peoples, some are idle no more...
Alex Wilson is from the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Manitoba and works as a professor in the College of Education, Department of Educational Foundations, and also the Academic Director of the Aboriginal Education Research Centre at the University of Saskatchewan. Her work focuses on social justice, anti-oppressive education and Indigenous education. She is one of many people who are helping to organize events and educational tools for Idle No More.

The sound of massed voices…

Eldon Wegner is the president of the Honolulu Chorale Society, which opens its 2013 season tomorrow.

Plus a not-so-silly backyard goose, today’s reality check, and the world view from Al Jazeera…first the NPR news…