‘Unrelenting Devastation’ from California Wildfires; Confederate Flags Near You; Housing Affordability and Mayor Dinkins; Thirty Four Ways to Talk Race
Coming up on today's show:
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Julie Johnson, cannabis reporter at The Press Democrat in Sonoma County, CA, reports on the wildfires in California that her newspaper says are causing "unrelenting devastation," and Philip Bump, Washington Post correspondent, talks about how climate change is exacerbating the fires.
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Arun Venugopal, WNYC reporter and host of Micropolis, discusses his latest reporting on why some New Yorkers choose to fly the Confederate flag.
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David Dinkins, former mayor of New York City, professor in the practice of public affairs at Columbia University, and Barbara Fife, deputy mayor for planning and development in in the Dinkins administration , discuss the administration’s accomplishments and policies in creating affordable housing.
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George Yancy, Emory University philosophy professor and the author of On Race: 34 Conversations in a Time of Crisis (Oxford University Press, 2017), talks about a series of interviews he conducted with prominent thinkers about the meaning and effects of race, collected in a new book.
