Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.
https://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl
Obama to Cuba: It's Time to Lift the Embargo
President Obama is spending 3 days in Cuba in an attempt to bridge the relationship between the United States and Cuba after decades of closed communication.
Listen to the president's speech in Cuba (or watch below).
And skip ahead to 33:48 to hear NYU comparative literature professor Ana Maria Dopico provide analysis. She said Obama's speech had several audiences in mind: a Cuban audience in Havana of course, but also the Cuban diaspora and progressives, for whom he addressed how Cuba was built by slaves and immigrants and the ties of blood and brotherhood.