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This documentary highlights key political, cultural and social issues covered by KUNM and other alternative media outlets in the early and mid-1970s. Originally aired Sunday December 4, 2022.

On this week’s Let’s Talk New Mexico, we’ll be taking a closer look at the Indian Child Welfare Act. If ICWA is deemed unconstitutional, how will this ruling impact tribal sovereignty and tribal-owned energy companies, gaming establishments and lands? How will this potential overturn of ICWA affect New Mexico Native children in foster care? We want to hear from you. What do you want to know about ICWA? Email us at LetsTalk@kunm.org or call in live, Thursday morning at 8, on 89.9 KUNM.

This week: Favorite Things This time on The Children's Hour, we explore some of our favorite things. Everyone has something they love best of all, for some of us it's our pets, and others it's something totally different.

It's National Poetry Month in the USA, and we are celebrating with a Poetry Palooza on The Children's Hour! We're joined by poet and educator, Allan Wolf. Wolf’s books for young people showcase his love of research, history, science, and poetry.

We celebrate Earth Day on The Children’s Hour with students working to save the environment around them. RiverXchange is a program that partners with schools in Albuquerque, which is nestled along the Rio Grande, to create projects that protect our precious environment.



This time on The Children's Hour we explore how reading to dogs can help kids feel confident and excited about reading. Read To The Dogs programs can be found in many libraries, and sometimes they come to schools.

It’s hard to get an appointment with a doctor right now and recent data helps explain why. From 2017 to 2021 the number of primary care physicians in the state dropped by 30%, and specialists are leaving too. Some providers are leaving for another profession or retiring, but others are leaving New Mexico for better pay or for more balanced lives in states with more robust healthcare systems.

Going to school when you don’t feel good can make learning hard. New Mexico has struggled to climb out of our last place ranking in education but also with providing quality healthcare. School based health centers may be a solution.

Hear the conversation with special guests, Amanza Walton-Desir, Member of Parliament, Co-operative Republic of Guyana, and Erin Johnson Kruft, Senior Director, Workforce and Community Success, CNM, as they discuss Women in Skilled Trades Professions, and the Global Expansion. Women's Focus - KUNM Public Radio - 89.9 FM and KUNM.org - Sat. April 29 - 12 noon -2:00 pm.

This time on The Children’s Hour, we take a step back in time, to over 80 years ago to World War II, one of the biggest conflicts in human history, which changed modern humanity forever. Learn from Ms. Teresa Rand Bridges’ bilingual 5th grade class at Alvarado Elementary, a public school in Albuquerque, New Mexico.