America's Controversial Legacy: Black Leadership, and The Death Penalty | The Leonard Lopate Show

4 segments

States Reexamine the Death Penalty as Lethal Injection Drugs Become Scarce 29 min

The "Luminous Standout" Sasha Cooke, at Carnegie Hall 19 min

Finding the Absurd in a Spending Addiction 13 min

The Evolution of Black Leaders and Black Leadership in America 33 min

Julian Bond and Barack Obama during The 36th Annual NAACP Image Awards - Show at Dorothy Chandler Pavillion in Los Angeles, California, United States.

Washington Post national reporter Mark Berman discusses the challenges of performing lethal injections as the drugs become less readily available. Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke talks about her latest engagement at Carnegie Hall. Author and performer Ben Rimalower’s new performance about his spending addiction. Historian Phyllis Leffler and activist and politician Julian Bond talk about the Civil Rights Movement and Black leadership in America.