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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 171 days 14 hours 39 minutes
When the President Took on the Banks
Susan Berfield, investigative reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg News and the author of The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020) talks about the moment
NYPL's Reading List for Juneteenth
Kevin Young, poet, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the NYPL, New Yorker poetry editor and the author of Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News ( Graywolf Press, 2017) comes on t
A History of Juneteenth
Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, professor of history (and incoming chair of the department) at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of several books, including A Black Women's History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2020), talks about the history
Juneteenth: Past and Future Black Politics
Adam Serwer, staff writer at The Atlantic talks about how to be anti-racist now and the past and future Black politics.
Your Juneteenth Playlist
Terrance McKnight, evening host on WQXR brings some of the music he's listening to on Juneteenth and tells us what to expect for his evening special on WQXR. ?“The Black Experience in the Concert Hall," a live Juneteenth call-in with Terrance McKnight:
SCOTUS Rules Trump Administration Can't End DACA
Jami Floyd, WNYC's legal editor and host of All Things Considered and Beth Fertig, WNYC reporter covering court and immigration talk about the Supreme Court's decision that found the Trump administration can't end DACA -- and preview the cases that are s
Primary Preview: NY 17
Early and absentee voting is underway in the New York primary and one of the most hotly contested races is the Democratic primary to fill the House seat left open by Rep. Nita Lowey's retirement in New York's 17th Congressional District (Rockland/Westche
Social Justice Street Art
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, artist and creator of the art exhibition Stop Telling Women to Smile, talks about the street art popping up around the city and how art and activism go hand-in-hand. Tatyana also recently installed a series of murals at The Greene S
A Virologist on the Latest C?OVID-19 News
As New York City prepares to enter phase two of re-opening -- which could be as soon as Monday -- Dr. Angela Rasmussen, virologist at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in the Center for Infection and Immunity and a writer for Forbes mag
Imagining a 'Queer Future'
Jack Halberstam, Visiting Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University, and author of Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, takes calls from LGBTQ+ listeners about what everyone can learn from common LGBTQ+ experiences, and