Birth Control Misinformation; NJ's Affordable Housing Fix; Defining 'Blackness'; Women's History for Young Readers

Coming up on today’s show:

Misinformation on social media—some of it seeded by groups that are anti-reproductive rights—is leading women away from using birth control. Lauren Weber, health and science accountability reporter at The Washington Post, explains how it is affecting women’s choices and access to reproductive care.
Gov. Phil Murphy signed legislation to improve the way New Jersey towns are held accountable for developing affordable housing. Mike Hayes, WNYC/Gothamist reporter covering equity and access to opportunity in New Jersey and the author or The Secret Files: Bill De Blasio, The NYPD, and the Broken Promises of Police Reform (Kingston Imperial, 2023), explains the new system and talks about the way Millburn, NJ, is failing to comply.
Henry Louis Gates Jr., Alphonse Fletcher university professor and director of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University, host of “Finding Your Roots” on PBS and the author of The Black Box: Writing the Race (Penguin Press, 2024), talks about his new book that examines the history of Black self-definition.
In honor of Women’s History Month, Tanya Lee Stone, director of the Writing Program at Champlain College and author of several books about unsung heroes and missing histories for young readers, most recently, Remembering Rosalind Franklin: Rosalind Franklin and the Discovery of the Double Helix Structure of DNA (Christy Ottaviano Books, 2024), discusses her latest nonfiction picture book on a female pioneer in science, and listeners call in to share how they teach women’s history.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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