Prejudice and Pride: 1989 and the AIDS Epidemic; LGBT Visibility in the 1990s; Reefer Managed: Talking to Your Kids; The Life of Frederick Douglass

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 23, 2019

On this Summer Friday, here are some of our favorite recent conversations:

  • Peter Staley, HIV/AIDS activist, former member of ACT-UP NY and founder of the Treatment Action Group, discusses his work as an activist for the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power — or ACT UP — in 1989 and how the epidemic impacted the LGBTQ rights movement.
  • Claire Potter, professor of history at the New School and executive editor of Public Seminar, discusses the media landscape and how it began to include the LGBT community in the 1990s.
  • A call-in for parents about how they talk to teens about pot versus alcohol.
  • David Blight professor of American history and director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, talks about his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (Simon & Schuster, 2018).

    These interviews originally aired earlier this year. Links to the unedited audio are here:

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