WMC Live #1: Gloria Steinem, Melanie Campbell, Emma Axelrod. (Original Airdate 8/26/2012)
Robin celebrates Women's Equality Day with the launch of WMC Live, and explains what The Women's Media Center is and how it came to be. Her guests are Emma Axelrod, a teen activist from New Jersey, who helped get the first female moderator of a presidential debate in 20 years; Melanie Campbell, president of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, talking about black voter suppression; and Gloria Steinem in depth: on her latest (unfinished) book, gun control, the shortage of women news writers reporting on the presidential campaign, capital punishment, walking through fields of lavender\u2014and more.