MLK Jr. Day: Impeachment Update: Textbooks Across State Lines; MLK Today; Teaching Martin Luther King Jr.

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 20, 2020

On today's show:

  • Alana Abramson, Congressional reporter for Time Magazine, brings us the latest on impeachment and tells us what to expect when the trial gets underway on Tuesday;
  • Dana Goldstein, education reporter for The New York Times and the author of The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession (Doubleday, 2014), read thousands of pages of American History textbooks to find differences in what students are taught in different states. She reports on how the politics of California and Texas affected what publishers included in textbooks for students in those states; 
  • Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of Black Lives Matter, and the author of (written with asha bandele, now in paperback) When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir (St. Martin's Press, 2018), talks about how young Black Americans respond to the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.;
  • The phones are open for teachers on how the cover the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. for students of various ages.

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