City Hall & City Council; 'Period Poverty'; 100 Years of West Indians in NYC; Summer Childcare Scramble

On today's show:

• Dana Rubinstein, New York Times metro reporter, talks about Mayor Adams' weekly press conference, as well as the City Council hearing on the nomination of Randy Mastro as corporation counsel.

• After both red and blue states passed legislation to make period products easily accessible in school bathrooms, Chabeli Carrazana, economy and child care reporter for The 19th, explains how anti-transgender rhetoric has made students who menstruate, regardless of their gender, more likely to face 'period poverty'.

• As our centennial series continues, Tyesha Maddox, associate professor of African and African American Studies at Fordham University and the author of A Home Away from Home: Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024), talks about the history of Caribbean immigrants in New York, while listeners share their stories.

• When school's out, parents often scramble to find affordable options for childcare. Elliot Haspel, contributor to The Atlantic and the author of Crawling Behind: America's Childcare Crisis and How to Fix It (Black Rose Writing, 2019), talks about how we got here and what it would take to fix the situation.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.