Malcolm X Biography, City Center's Fall For Dance, Misty Copeland, WeWork

After he left prison, Malcolm X rose quickly through the ranks of the Nation of Islam, becoming its national spokesman. In the third of five conversations, Tamara Payne explains what drew Malcolm X to the organization and how he in turn recruited others with his fiery speeches; plus, a look at his relationship with civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Payne was the principal researcher for the new book, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X, which her father Les Payne worked on for more than 25 years.

Fall for Dance, City Center's program featuring ensembles from across the country, has become a staple of the fall arts calendar. And, like so much else in 2020, this year it's going digital. City Center's Vice President of Programming, Stanford Makishi gives us a preview of this year's program, including the world premiere of four commissioned pieces.

Ballerina Misty Copeland, who in 2015 became the first African American woman to be promoted to principal dancer in the American Ballet Theater's 75-year history, joins us to discuss her new children's book Bunheads, the first in a series of picture books inspired by Misty's own early experiences in ballet.

New York Magazine contributing editor Reeves Wiedeman joins us to discuss his latest book, Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork, which tells the inside story of the once $47 billion start-up, its 2019 bankruptcy and its founder's subsequent fall from grace.