American Foundation for Equal Rights
Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black is a founding board member of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, and the author of 8, a play that chronicles the federal trial of Proposition 8, based on the actual court transcripts and first-hand interviews.
Dustin Lance Black: ABC's 'When We Rise' Filmmaker Dustin Lance Black visits The Treatment to discuss his passion for chronicling the LGBT movement of 1970s San Francisco in the ABC miniseries When We Rise.
Hollywood Helps Swing Public Opinion on Prop 8 Dustin Lance Black won an Oscar for his screenplay for Milk , the film about gay rights leader Harvey Milk of San Francisco. He's also author of 8 , which opened on Broadway in 2011. It's based on transcripts from the trial that led federal judge Vaughn Walker to declare Proposition 8 unconstitutional.
Hua Hsu: A Floating Chinaman Author Hua Hsu stops by to discuss his book A Floating Chinaman, recounting the life of 1930's actor/writer H.T. Tsiang and his struggles entering the American literary world.
Claudio Magris: Blameless In Claudio Magris' Blameless, a museum of the implements of war and destruction is created to inspire peace. But this conversation is not just about war and peace.
Trump says goodbye Paris Accord: What does it mean for U.S. and the planet? President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the U.S. will withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, the landmark international agreement to limit greenhouse gas emissions. Trump was to renegotiate a new deal, but will that happen?
