What NYC Owes Eric Garner; Scott Pelley's Stories; Anita Hill's Courage; SAT Adversity Score
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 21, 2019
Coming up on today's show:
- Mara Gay, New York Times editorial board member, and Phil Stinson, professor and criminologist at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, reports on the latest from the administrative trial of police officer Daniel Pantaleo who killed Eric Garner in 2015. Plus, what we've learned about police transparency and accountability in the four years the Garner family has been waiting for justice and disciplinary action.
- Scott Pelley, 60 Minutes correspondent, former CBS Evening News anchor and the author of Truth Worth Telling: A Reporter's Search for Meaning in the Stories of Our Times (Hanover Square Press, 2019), talks about the importance of a free press through the stories of individuals he has interviewed in his 45 years in journalism.
- Attorney, law professor, equal rights activist and recipient of the 2019 PEN Courage award, Anita Hill and PEN America chief executive officer, Suzanne Nossel talk about Prof. Hill's work on behalf of gender and racial equality and her award.
- Scott Jaschik, editor and co-founder of Inside Higher Ed., explains why the College Board plans to assign an adversity score to every student who takes the SAT. The score is meant to assess the student's economic and social background.
