#AskTheMayor; What Kanye Said; Washington Thriller; Take a Walk With the Spirit of Jane Jacobs
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 4, 2018
Coming up on today's show:
- Bill de Blasio, Mayor of New York City, takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
- Tricia Rose, director of the Center for Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown and author of The Hip Hop Wars: What We Talk About When We Talk About Hip Hop — and Why It Matters (Civitas Books, 2008), talks about the controversial comments made by Kanye West, plus does the R. Kelly boycott effort mean music is reckoning with #MeToo?
- Jake Tapper, host of CNN's State of the Union and chief Washington correspondent and the author of The Hellfire Club (Little, Brown and Company, 2018), talks about writing his first thriller, about a 1950s congressman caught up in intrigue, and the news from Washington.
- Tara Kelly, head of policy and public programs at the Municipal Arts Society, and Samuel Brooks, president of the Mott Haven Historic Districts Association, who is leading the South Bronx tour, and Farrah Lafontant, co-leader of Preserve East New York's tours, and Lena Afridi, policy coordinator for equitable economic development at the Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development, and leader of the "Taking Care of Business in Jackson Heights" tour, talk about Jane's Walk NYC, walking tours happening this weekend all across the city that are inspired by the late urban activist Jane Jacobs.
