On today’s show:
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Errol Louis, political anchor of Spectrum NY1 News, host of Inside City Hall on NY1, New York Magazine columnist and host of the podcast You Decide, and Rich Barrabi, co-anchor of “Mornings on News 12” and host of “Power and Politics” on News 12 Long Island, recap News 12 Long Island’s debate between Democrat Tom Suozzi and Republican Mazi Pilip, who are in a tight race in a special election to replace George Santos in Congress in New York’s 3rd Congressional district, and discuss the major issues at play.
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This year’s winners of the Lehrer Award for Community Well-Being focus their work on caring for the migrants arriving in NYC from the southern border. Nuala O’Doherty-Naranjo, attorney, community activist and the founder of the Jackson Heights Immigrant Center, Jesus Aguais, president of Aid for Life, and Power Malu, founder of Artists Athletes Activists, talk about their work connecting migrants with the services and the community they need.
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Emily Bazelon, staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, co-host of Slate’s “Political Gabfest” podcast, Truman Capote fellow for creative writing and law at Yale Law School and author of Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (Random House, 2019,) offers analysis of the oral arguments held at the Supreme Court over Colorado’s decision to disqualify Trump from the primary ballot.
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Mark Anthony Neal, professor of African & African American Studies and chair of the Department of African & African American Studies at Duke University, offers an abridged history of Black comedy as a tool for activism, from Dick Gregory to the present.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
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