Coming up on today’s show:
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After last week’s news of comments from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s report on Biden’s age and mental agility hit a nerve, Damon Linker, senior lecturer in political science at the University of Pennsylvania and writer of the Substack newsletter “Notes from the Middleground,” explains his argument expressed in a recently published piece for the Atlantic that “Democrats Should Pick a New Presidential Candidate Now,” what the process for choosing that new candidate could look like, and names that have been floated for the position.
Mayor Adams holds one off-topic press conference per week, where reporters can ask him questions on any subject. Elizabeth Kim, Gothamist and WNYC reporter, recaps what he talked about at this week’s event.
This month we hear from the makers of the 5 films nominated for the Academy Award for best feature documentary. Today, Kaouther Ben Hania, writer and director, talks about her film which explores the life of a Tunisian mother and her four daughters.
While history looks back on both Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X as revolutionary figures in their own rights, their ideological roots led them to pursue different visions for Black American liberation. Peniel Joseph, professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. (Basic Books, 2020), peels back behind the veneer of history, provides a deeper look at the ideologies they subscribed to throughout their lives, and reflects on how integrationism and Black nationalism have worked out in modern American society.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
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