Lenny Kravitz, Malcolm X Biography, COVID Etiquette, 'This Is What Democracy Looked Like'
Four-time Grammy-winner Lenny Kravitz joins us to discuss his new memoir, Let Love Rule, in which he reflects on the first 25 years of his life, from childhood to the release of his debut album.
Malcolm X officially left the Nation of Islam in March 1964. Less than a year later, he was assassinated in a Harlem ballroom. In the fourth of five conversations, Tamara Payne describes the final year of Malcolm’s life and how traveling the world changed his perspective on faith and race. She discusses what her father learned about Malcolm X’s assassination of February 1965 for the new biography, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X.
As the weather gets cooler and the holidays approach, many of us are having to navigate totally new etiquette dilemmas because of COVID-19: How do you figure out Thanksgiving when your friends and family have precautions are different than your own? Or curtail the guest list because you're worried about social distancing? How do you set the ground rules for your kid's playdate with a new friend? New York Times Social Q's columnist Philip Galanes shares his advice on some of these quandaries and takes listener calls.
Ahead of the start of early voting in New York, we take a look at what ballots have looked like throughout history. Alicia Cheng, author of This Is What Democracy Looked Like: A Visual History of the Printed Ballot, joins us to discuss curating an exhibit of the same name at Cooper Union. The exhibit follows the history of American elections through print reproductions of 26 individual ballots and will be on view from October 19, 2020 through November 7, 2020 on the Foundation Building’s Fourth Avenue side.
