E-mail a friendOctober 23, 2007
Former U.S. Labor secretary Robert Reich says there's a better range of possibilities for consumers. Singer-actress Dee Dee Bridgewater discusses her jazz roots and her experience in Mali; she also performs a song from her new CD.
Robert Reich
Robert Reich
Robert Reich has served in three administrations, including as Labor Secretary under President Clinton. He's also a best-selling author, prize-winning professor, media commentator and playwright. Now a public policy professor at UC Berkeley, he's been on the faculty at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and Brandeis University. The Rhodes scholar and Yale Law School grad is the author of 11 books, including Supercapitalism, in which he argues that capitalism should be separated from democracy.
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dee Dee Bridgewater
Jazz artist discusses embracing her ancestry. (4:02)
Called one of the best jazz singers of her generation, Dee Dee Bridgewater was inspired by her trumpeter father and Ella Fitzgerald's music. She started out singing in school talent shows and went on to work with such jazz greats as Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach, win a Tony Award—for her performance in the Broadway production of The Wiz—and two Grammys. As one of the U.N.'s first Food and Agriculture Organization ambassadors, she's toured many African villages, which inspired her new CD, "Red Earth."