Tulsa & Reparations; NJ Primary Preview; Workplace Vaccine Mandates, Explained; Pride Parade Returns

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 2, 2021

Coming up on today's show: 

  • It's been 100 years since a white mob in Tulsa, Oklahoma, committed one of the worst racial massacres in U.S. history. KalaLea, host of WNYC Studios’ new podcast, Blindspot: Tulsa Burning, and DeNeen Brown, staff writer at The Washington Post, discuss the current reckoning with the Tulsa Race Massacre and why many are calling for reparations for family members of the decedents.
  • Nancy Solomon, WNYC New Jersey reporter, and Matt Katz, WNYC reporter and author of American Governor: Chris Christie's Bridge to Redemption (Threshold Editions 2016), preview next week's New Jersey primaries which will decide which Republican will run against Gov. Murphy in the general election.
  • Under recent guidance from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), employers have the legal right to make such a requirement. Dorit Reiss, law professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law who specializes in vaccine law policy, talks about what that means in practice and takes your calls.
  • NYC Pride was cancelled last year for the first time in half a century due to the pandemic. André Thomas, co-chair of Heritage of Pride Inc., the organizers of NYC Pride events, talks about the plans for this year, including the decision to bar NYPD officers from marching in the Pride Parade.

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

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