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This week's discussion with Carline Murphy, Fontaine Dunn, and Maria Ausherman will be on two women and their work. Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948) was an important artist of the Harlem Renaissance, which was an intellectual and cultural revival of African music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater and politics centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City in the 1920s and 1930s. Her portraits of famous Americans helped publicize their accomplishments and aided the civil rights movement.

Maria Ausherman is an author and teacher living in nearby Stuyvesant, New York. She obtained her BA at UNC-Chapel Hill, her MA at City University of New York, her MEd at the University of Georgia in Athens where she also studied art history and wrote her dissertation on photography.

Fontaine Dunn is an artist and writer living in Hudson, New York. She taught painting and drawing at Sarah Lawrence College, Princeton University and the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She also has been an instructor of English for speakers of other languages. She obtained her BFA from Tulane University and her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University.

"Li Le, Li Tan" is a Creole language radio program meaning "it’s the time, it’s the hour." The show's mission is to promote Haitian language, music, arts, and culture; to raise awareness and to discuss Haiti’s history and its relevance to today’s world; and to share news on current events happening here in the counties and in Haiti. Broadcast live from Columbia County, New York.

Known as Azouke Legba, Gregory Sanon, a native of Haiti and co-founder of Haitian Community Development Project (HCDP), is a musician with compositions ranging from political protest, to support for children’s rights and health, to spiritual music for Voodoo ceremonies. He fuses his native music with traditional rock music such as that of Jimmy Hendrix and Santana. He has played with the famous dancer and choreographer Kathryn Dunham.