Managing Teen Anxiety About the Future, The Unhoused Teen Crisis, Full Bio: Althea Gibson, NYC Spring Theater Preview

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A recent New York Times article reports that some teenagers feel that decisions made by politicians and elected officials do not reflect their needs. Psychologist Lisa Damour, co-host of the Ask Lisa podcast, joins us to discuss how to help young people deal with their anxieties about politics and their futures.

Vicki Sokolik, the founder of the Florida-based nonprofit, Starting Right, Now which helps at risk and unhoused/unaccompanied young people, joins to discuss her new book, If You See Them: Young, Unhoused and Alone in America, about the invisibility of unhoused youth and resources to help.

Our Full Bio this month will focus on tennis great Althea Gibson, who broke barriers as one of the first Black athletes to cross the color line and compete on an international stage in tennis. She was also the first Black player to win a Grand Slam title. We’re spending the week talking to Sally Jacobs, author of the biography Althea: The Life of Tennis Champion Althea Gibson. Today, we discuss Gibson’s early life in Harlem.

With a slate of new shows planned to debut this spring, Vulture’s Jackson McHenry joins to talk about some of the most anticipated from big Broadway productions to smaller off-Broadway works.

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