After Russian leader Vladimir Putin assumed power in August 1999, speculation about his character, motives, and plans for Russia’s future has been rampant. A portrait of Putin has emerged in the West that is one-dimensional and diametrically opposed to the image of Putin the majority of Russians hold. Even after he stepped down as president in May 2008, retaining a significant measure of power as prime minister under his hand-picked successor, President Dmitri Medvedev, Putin remains poorly understood.

On this week’s WCVE Forum, Maya Angelou hosts a one-hour special that goes on a historical trek from the 1950's through the 1990's. Angelou renders a poetic portrait of the day-to-day lives of African Americans during the civil rights era, when artists and activists, musicians and ministers joined hands with people from all walks of life to bring about a historic change in our culture.

Engineers of the New Millennium: Responding to Disasters is a one-hour long program examining technological innovations in disaster emergency response.

Engineers of the New Millennium is a radio series that tells stories from the frontiers of engineering. The series, developed as a partnership between IEEE Spectrum Radio and the National Science Foundation, is broadcast on public radio stations across the U.S.

Born around 1820, Geronimo grew into a leading warrior and healer of the Chiricahua. But after his tribe was relocated to an Arizona reservation in 1872, he became a focus of the fury of terrified white settlers and of the growing tensions that divided Apaches struggling to survive under almost unendurable pressures. To angry whites, Geronimo became the archfiend, perpetrator of unspeakable savage cruelties. To his supporters, he remained the embodiment of proud resistance, the upholder of the old Chiricahua ways.