Racial Disparities of the Pandemic, Tori Amos, 'Spaceship Earth,' Kate Elizabeth Russell, Elizabeth Acevedo

All Of It with Alison Stewart | May 12, 2020

New York City Public Advocate Jumaane Williams joins us to talk about racial disparities related to the pandemic, from the enforcement of social distancing to the health effects of the virus on communities of color.

ProPublica senior reporting fellow Joshua Kaplan joins us to discuss his reporting and the data on racial disparities related to the pandemic.

Author and activist Jill Nelson joins us to talk about her arrest for graffiti in April.

Singer-songwriter Tori Amos discusses her new memoir, Resistance: A Songwriter's Story of Hope, Change, and Courage.

Director Matt Wolf discusses his documentary "Spaceship Earth" about the history of Biosphere 2, a self-engineered replica of Earth's ecosystem and social experiment that began in 1991.

Our May “Get Lit with All Of It” book club author, Kate Elizabeth Russell, joins us for a short conversation about her novel My Dark Vanessa, ahead of our event on May 26. 

Elizabeth Acevedo discusses her new YA novel, Clap When You Land.

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