Coming up on today’s show:
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Samantha Max, reporter covering public safety for WNYC/Gothamist, and Dean Meminger, criminal justice reporter and anchor for NY1 News, talk about the big news that NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell has resigned — and some of the possible reasons why, plus a report that found officers in anti-crime units are engaging in illegal stop-and-frisk stops, almost entirely targeting people of color.
Chris Alexander, inaugural executive director of the New York State Office of Cannabis Management, discusses how the state plans to remedy its slow rollout of legal recreational cannabis sales, including one proposal to allow farmers to sell cannabis at Farmer’s Markets.
Linda Villarosa, writer at the New York Times Magazine and contributor to the bestselling 1619 Project and the author of Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation (Anchor, 2023), talks about the racial health disparities in women’s health, especially during and just after pregnancy.
Carl Hancock Rux, poet, playwright, recording artist, essayist and radio journalist, talks about the series of events he’s orchestrated for a site-specific work across Lincoln Center on Sunday called “To a Garden Luxuriously Verdant (Enameled with Countless Flowerings): A Juneteenth Celebration.”
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
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