Revisiting the Moynihan Report

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 17, 2015

Ta-Nehisi Coates, writer for The Atlantic and the author of Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau, 2015), continues the conversation about reparations in revisiting “the Moynihan report,” saying it was actually an argument for more support for black men, robbed of livelihoods by slavery and repression. Instead, mass incarceration "solved" the problem with its lasting harm to the black family.

→ Read More: You can find Ta-Nehisi Coates' multi-part cover story for The Atlantic right here.

Now: @tanehisicoates on his @TheAtlantic cover story, where he revisits the Moynihan Report. Bookmark + read later: http://t.co/lXtQdCYn01
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) September 17, 2015

"School To Prison Pipeline" and other language I try to avoid. http://t.co/IqVuGD69fj
— Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) September 16, 2015

.@BrianLehrer @tanehisicoates Look forward to reading the piece. Got this from my Dad, co-authored by Moynihan, 1964. pic.twitter.com/RSxjIhdqF7
— Michael J. Agovino (@SoccerDiarist) September 17, 2015

@BrianLehrer @tanehisicoates Said it would be "the most brutal act of public policy since reconstruction." https://t.co/mHatleUMPx
— Harry Siegel (@harrysiegel) September 17, 2015

Last caller is correct in that MANY Americans do get to place where we earn too much for support, not enough to live @BrianLehrer
— Matt Roberson (@lospapamatt) September 17, 2015

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