Iowa filmmaker Nik Heftman joins The Iowa Mercury’s Douglas Burns for a timely and wide-ranging discussion on DEI and Drake University President Marty Martin’s forceful and courageous stand on it, a France leader’s call for a return of the Statue of Liberty, the protests of Telsa, continued screenings of Nik’s documentary on spoken-word artist Caleb Rainey who performs under the name “The Negro Artist.”
Heftman and Burns also talk at length about an Iowa Writers’ Collaborative panel at the Des Moines Book Festival, and a history discussion led by Rachelle Chase at that event.
And much more …
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(Douglas Burns, founder of The Iowa Mercury and a fourth-generation Iowa journalist from Carroll, is a member of the Iowa Writers’ Collaborative. Read dozens of the most talented writers in Iowa in just one place. The Iowa Writers' Collaborative spans the full state. It’s one of the biggest things going in Iowa journalism and writing now — and you don’t want to miss. This collaborative is — as the outstanding Quad Cities journalist Ed Tibbetts says — YOUR SUNDAY IOWA newspaper. )
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