Artist Melissa Penny paints a mural depicting George Floyd as her daughter Anabelle Penny watches on Wednesday, June 10, 2020, in Vallejo, Calif.

Reckoning With Racism

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 9, 2020

Michael Eric Dyson, Vanderbilt professor, New York Times contributing opinion writer, and author of Long Time Coming: Reckoning with Race in America (St. Martin's Press, 2020), looks at America's long history of racism and talks about where to go from here.

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