Biden's Immigration Actions; How to Protect Black Girls; West Farms 10460: An Overview; The Role of Black History Month in Black Lives

President Joe Biden signs a series of executive orders on health care, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021.

Coming up on today's show:

  • Elora Mukherjee, director of Columbia Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, talks about the recent executive orders by Pres. Biden and the impact of the changes on immigration policies and how they're carried out.
  • Ashley Gantt, organizer with the Rochester chapter of the New York Civil Liberties Union, and Ashley Sawyer, attorney and director of Policy and Government Relations at Girls for Gender Equity, an intergenerational organization committed to the physical, psychological, social, and economic development of girls and women, talk about the aftermath of an incident in which Rochester police pepper-spraying a 9-year-old girl while responding to a report of “family trouble," and the need to protect Black girls from gender- and racial-based violence.
  • Gregory Jost, adjunct professor of sociology at Fordham University and a researcher, facilitator, and organizer with expertise on the history of redlining and the Bronx, and Wanda Salaman, a longtime activist and the executive director of Mothers on the Move, a member-led community organization that advocates for the well-being of low-income people of color in the South Bronx, offer a historical and sociological overview of a neighborhood in the Bronx that has become the epicenter of the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic and kick off our series, West Farms 10460.
  • United States of Anxiety's host Kai Wright and senior producer Veralyn Williams talk about their feelings around Black History Month -- skepticism and enthusiasm, respectively, and its origins

Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.