Monday Morning Politics; One Nation, Under Protest; We Want to Talk About Race; Key Contests in the New York Primary

4 segments
A protester carries a U.S. flag upside, a sign of distress, next to a burning building Thursday, May 28, 2020, in Minneapolis.

Coming up on today's show:

  • Jamil Smith, senior writer at Rolling Stone talks about the latest national political news.
  • Eric Adams, Brooklyn Borough President, talks about the protests in New York City following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.
  • Ahmaud Arbery. Breonna Taylor. George Floyd. The list of unarmed black people killed by the police and other armed white people keeps getting longer. Ijeoma Oluo author of So You Want to Talk About Race (Seal Press, 2019) and the forthcoming MEDIOCRE: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America (Seal Press, 2020), talks about how Americans can have honest conversations about these killings, and race, racism and white supremacy.
  • Ben Max, executive editor of Gotham Gazette and co-host of the Max & Murphy podcast, and Emily Ngo, NY1 News politics reporter, talk about the races to watch as New Yorkers go to the polls, or mail in their ballots, this month.