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\\u201cThe women in my family kept working, never saw any kind of deadline \\u2013\\u2018Oh well, now I\\u2019ll retire and not do anything.\\u2019 I think that\\u2019s what I\\u2019ll do as well, and hope I\\u2019ll get a few more things done before it\\u2019s over.\\u201d

Carol Jenkins, 72, award-winning news broadcast journalist, author, and \\u201calways an agitator\\u201d has \\u201cretired\\u201d many times only to find herself moving on to the next new thing. After 25 years at NBC as a news anchor and correspondent, she hosted a talk show, Carol Jenkins Live on WNYW, and then went on to become a farmer \\u2013yes, that\\u2019s right a farmer. When Gloria Steinem, a close friend, called one day and casually asked her what she was doing, Carol answered, \\u201cRight now? I\\u2019m herding turkeys.\\u201d \\xa0She was also caring for her aging mother and writing a book with her daughter Elizabeth Gardner Hines: Black Titan, about her millionaire and civil rights activist uncle, A.J. Gaston. Life after the farm? Carol was Founding President of The Women\\u2019s Media Center for years and then retired, to help rear her grandchildren and begin writing another book on her family\\u2019s long experience in journalism as a window on gender and racial bias in media. Last year she came out of retirement \\u2013again-- \\xa0to return to New York television as host of Black America, a new TV series on CUNY-TV about what it means to be Black in America today. Hope you\\u2019ll listen to our joyful conversation with this deservedly well-known storyteller and unflagging social justice activist.