COVID Relief & Equity; Municipal Elections; New Podcast La Brega; Therapists on Therapy Now
The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 23, 2021
On today's show:
- Heather McGhee, chair of Color of Change board of directors and the author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (One World, 2021), talks about her new book and how the Biden COVID-19 relief bill would address issues of equity.
- With the June primary four months away, Brigid Bergin, the City Hall and politics reporter for WNYC, and David Cruz, WNYC/Gothamist news editor, talk about some of the factors shaping the race, including big endorsements and big money.
- Alana Casanova-Burgess, host of La Brega, and reporter and producer for WNYC's On the Media, talks about her new podcast, La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience, including what "la brega" means to Puerto Ricans, and how it so often defines life on the island.
- Lori Gottlieb, psychotherapist, co-host of the Dear Therapists podcast, and the author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019), talks about how the role and job of therapist has been affected by the pandemic as therapists call in to share their stories.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.
