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.
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Our Amendments: The 13th
This season, the Radiolab spin-off More Perfect is exploring all 27 Constitutional Amendments in words . . ..and music. Elie Mystal, executive editor of Above the Law and legal editor for WNYC's podcast More Perfect, offers his take on one: the 13th, which ended slavery.
.@ElieNYC: The original constitution was a "racist and flawed document that was so broken that it led us to actual fighting. It's with the 13th and 14th and 15th that the constitution becomes anything more than a declaration of the rights of white people."
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) October 18, 2018