Talking to Your Kids about Ferguson, Eric Garner, Race and the Police

The Brian Lehrer Show | Dec 12, 2014

When her 7-year-old son asked her why the police officer who killed Michael Brown wasn't arrested, Rachel Swarns knew she had to address it. Swarns is The New York Times' “The Working Life” columnist and author of American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama (Amistad, June 2012). She and KJ Dell'Antonia, editor and lead writer of the Motherlode blog for the Times, discuss the difficult conversations parents are having to have with their children.

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