The Southern Border & NYC; Tracking COVID Numbers; Cultural Critic Rebecca Carroll; NJ's Young Latino Men Devastated by COVID
The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 23, 2021
Coming up on today's show:Â
- Bitta Mostofi, commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, and Maria Odom, vice president for Legal Programs at Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), talk about the situation at the southern border and the implications for NYC of Pres. Biden's immigration policies.
- In some areas of New York City, positivity rates are reaching 15 percent. Jake Dobkin, co-founder of Gothamist, where he's been the de facto numbers-cruncher in chief for all things COVID-19, runs through the latest numbers, including on positivity rates, case rates, hospitalizations and vaccinations.
- Rebecca Carroll, former cultural critic at WNYC and the author of Surviving the White Gaze: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 2021), shares her story of growing up as a Black child adopted by white parents and her search for identity.
- New Jersey's Latino communities have been disproportionately devastated by COVID-19. Karen Yi, WNYC reporter covering New Jersey, reports on how younger Latino men, especially, have died from the disease at much higher rates than other groups.
Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.
