SOTU Preview; New Brooklyn DA; The Nuclear Button Debate; A Young Woman's Guide to Social Change
Coming up on today's show:Â
- Elana Schor, congressional reporter for POLITICO, previews what to expect at this year's State of the Union Address.
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Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez talks about his work in Brooklyn and his new initiative he's calling "Justice 2020," where he will convene community leaders, criminal justice experts and reformers to try to strengthen community trust in the criminal justice system.
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Bruce Blair, research scholar at Princeton's Program on Science and Global Security and co-founder of Global Zero, the international movement for the elimination of nuclear weapons, discusses the debate over the authority to launch nuclear weapons.
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Marley Dias, launched the #1000BlackGirlBooks campaign to collect children's books featuring black protagonists and the author of Marley Dias Gets It Done (And So Can You!) (Scholastic, 2018), talks about the campaign she launched as a sixth-grader and her ongoing work that earned her the designation of "coolest black kid in America" from Ebony Magazine, and her book's introduction by Ava Duvernay.
