Five Minutes With
Tapping For Tuition: Penn State Student Dances to Fund His Education
Joshua Johnson has been dancing for six years.
Posted Wednesday, March 14, 2012 in Five Minutes With by Naima Ramos-Chapman
Richard Cordray Talks Student Lending, For-Profit Colleges with Campus Progress
Cordray is the new director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Posted Monday, March 12, 2012 in Five Minutes With by Naima Ramos-Chapman
Five Minutes With: Tar Sands Arrestee
Ben Kessler served in Afghanistan and now spends most of his time fighting to counter the negative effects of climate change.
Posted Tuesday, September 6, 2011 in Five Minutes With by Candice Bernd
Former Campus Progress Intern Vying for School Board Seat
Elizabeth Munguia wants to bring a young voice to her California school board and work to improve college readiness among students.
Posted Tuesday, August 30, 2011 in Reporting & Five Minutes With by Emily Wood
Five Minutes With Tree-Occupying Coal Activist Catherine-Ann MacDougal
Catherine-Ann MacDougal has spent the past month living in tree in an effort to prevent coal companies from blasting off the tops of nearby mountains.
Posted Thursday, August 18, 2011 in Five Minutes With by Jake Blumgart
Frances Fox Piven Talks Tea Party Politics
The 78-year-old activist and academic faces down Glenn Beck and death threats to organize against the modern movement to cut government spending on important social services.
Posted Friday, April 1, 2011 in Five Minutes With by Micah Uetricht
Six Questions with Zach Wahls, Who Defended His Moms in Iowa’s Legislature
The young man who became a YouTube sensation for defending his moms before the Iowa House of Representatives talks youth activism on LGBTQ rights, his awesome family, and—of course—Iowa.
Posted Friday, February 18, 2011 in Five Minutes With by Jessica Mowles
Hannah Giles’ Sister, Regis, Loves Guns
The sister of Hannah GIles, the woman who helped bring down ACORN, has a mission of her own.
Posted Friday, February 11, 2011 in Reporting & Five Minutes With by Kay Steiger
Five Minutes With Robert Pollin
An economist says getting back to five percent unemployment just isn’t good enough.
Posted Monday, February 7, 2011 in Five Minutes With by George Warner
Five Minutes With Openly Lesbian Houston Mayor Annise Parker
Huston’s openly lesbian mayor talks about her run for office, what the presence of LGBTQ people at the table can do, and what people say to her in the elevator.
Posted Wednesday, November 17, 2010 in Five Minutes With by Matt Comer
Five Minutes With Andrew Hacker
A professor criticizes the higher education “industry” and offers alternatives for young people looking at top schools.
Posted Monday, November 8, 2010 in Five Minutes With by Jessica Newman
Five Minutes With HIV/AIDS Activist Paula Akugizibwe
Posted Thursday, October 14, 2010 in Five Minutes With by Kayvan Farchadi
AUDIO: Five Minutes With Eddie Glaude
Campus Progress interviews Eddie Glaude about Ethnic Studies Week, an effort put together by educators protesting Arizona’s recent ban on ethnic studies and revisions to Texas’s public school curriculum.
Posted Friday, October 8, 2010 in Five Minutes With by Shani Hilton
Five Minutes With Isabel Wilkerson
The Pulitzer Prize winning journalist talks about her new critically acclaimed book on the Great Migration and the future of narrative journalism.
Posted Monday, September 27, 2010 in Five Minutes With by Derrick Haynes
Five Minutes With Jim Hightower
The Texas populist on the Tea Party, financial regulation, and what young people are doing to change America.
Posted Wednesday, September 22, 2010 in Five Minutes With by James M. Russell
Five Minutes With Lt. Dan Choi, ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Activist
Campus Progress sits down with Lt. Dan Choi, a graduate of West Point. He has been a leader in pushing for the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” legislation that bans gays and lesbians from serving openly in the U.S. military.
Posted Wednesday, August 4, 2010 in Five Minutes With by Kay Steiger
Five Minutes With Dolores Huerta
“Si se puede. Yes we can.” Before this slogan of hope and self-efficacy united a nation in the 2008 presidential election, it was the slogan of the United Farm Workers, coined by its cofounder Dolores Huerta.
Posted Thursday, July 22, 2010 in Five Minutes With by Mary Elizabeth Lohr
Helen Thomas
Helen Thomas on women journalists, comparing wars, and undying curiosity.
Posted Monday, June 7, 2010 in Five Minutes With
Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton
Washington, D.C.’s only congressional representative talks with Campus Progress about her city’s new same-sex marriage law.
Posted Thursday, April 1, 2010 in Five Minutes With by Pema Levy
Kai Wright
The new editorial director of Colorlines, one of the most influential newsmagazines on race and politics, talks about Obama, the left, and the future of journalism.
Posted Tuesday, March 16, 2010 in Five Minutes With by Jake Blumgart
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