#AskTheMayor; Cindy Hyde-Smith's Education; The Souls of Yellow Folk

The Brian Lehrer Show | Nov 30, 2018

Coming up on today's show:

  • New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC. 
  • Noliwe Rooks, the director of American Studies at Cornell University, former associate director of African American studies at Princeton University and the author of, Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education, links newly elected Mississippi Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith's controversial comments during the campaign to the publicly funded  "segregation academy" she attended and discusses the impact of those schools on public education in the South. 
  • Craig McCarthy and Disha Raychaudhuri, reporters for NJ Advance Media, talk about The Force Report, a database of police use of force across the state of New Jersey that came out of a 16-month investigation by NJ Advance Media.
  • With a nod to WEB Dubois' The Souls of Black Folks, Wesley Yang talks about the Asian American experience.

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