"Growing up, Rachel Maddow was heavily involved in social activism and did not see herself getting into news media, until her friends dared her to walk-on for a radio show.

"Maddow, television host and political commentator, engaged about 600 attendees in an open dialogue yesterday morning about 'The Rachel Maddow Show' and her views on politics and the media at an Eagleton Institute of Politics' 'It's ALL Politics' speaker series event held last night in the Nicholas Music Center on Douglass campus."

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