Los Angeles Lakers' LeBron James, second from left, wears a Black Lives Matter shirt and kneels with teammates during the national anthem prior to an NBA basketball game against the LA Clippers.

RNC Day 3 Recap; NBA Boycotts for Racial Justice; Brian Stelter on Fox News & the Trump White House; Restaurants Struggle

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 27, 2020

Coming up on today's show:

Rachel Scott, ABC News White House and D.C. correspondent, discusses the third night of the Republican National Convention.
The Milwaukee Bucks refused to take the court for their playoff game yesterday, sparking a boycott across the NBA and other professional sports against police violence and racial injustice. William Rhoden, former longtime sports columnist at The New York Times, now a writer for the site The Undefeated, talks about how the players got here, and what their high profile protests could mean for Black Lives Matter and racial justice in the United States.
Brian Stelter, CNN's host of Reliable Sources and senior media correspondent and the author of Hoax: Donald Trump, Fox News, and the Dangerous Distortion of Truth (Atria/One Signal Publishers, 2020), examines the relationship between Pres. Trump and Fox News.
With the news that indoor dining will not return to New York City anytime soon, Ben Yakas, arts and culture editor for Gothamist and WNYC, talks about what restaurants can do to survive the COVID-19 pandemic.

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