West Virginia's Resource Curse, 'My Fair Lady' Returns to Broadway, Bryan Stevenson & The Legacy Museum

Midday on WNYC | May 10, 2018

Ken Ward Jr. shares his ongoing investigation into how West Virginia is making the same mistakes with natural gas companies as it did with the coal industry. Harry Hadden-Paton and Lauren Ambrose discuss their starring roles in the Broadway revival of My Fair Lady. Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, talks about the high profile opening of The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration in Montgomery, Alabama. For our latest "Please Explain," Dr. Nina Shapiro debunks medical myths about everything from gluten to detoxing.

This episode is guest hosted by Jonathan Capehart. 

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