Monday Morning Politics; America's Blackface Obsession; Black Migrations 2; Another Chance For New York Single-Payer Health Care

Coming up on today's show:

• Julie Davis, New York Times congressional reporter, discusses the latest political news.
• Davarian Baldwin, professor of American Studies at Trinity College, dissects the history of blackface in American culture and how it became prevalent cultural phenomenon.
• The theme for African American history month this year is "Black Migrations."  Every Monday in February, we explore different facets of the theme.  This week: Dominique Jean-Louis, a curatorial project historian at the New York Historical Society, where she worked on the “Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow” exhibition, and Gloria Browne-Marshall,  professor of constitutional law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, civil rights attorney, ASALH board member and chair of the 400th Commemoration, and the author of Race, Law, and American Society: 1607-Present (Routledge, 2007), look at “The Great Migration” when millions of African Americans left the rural South for Northern cities, like New York and Newark.
• New York State Assembly Member Richard Gottfried (D-75th District) and chair of the NYS Assembly Committee on Health, discusses his single-payer health care proposal for New York, which has been reintroduced with amendments, and has a chance of passing now that Democrats control the legislature -- plus weighs in on the measles outbreak in Brooklyn and Rockland County.