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MTA Chair Janno Lieber on Funding the MTA; Teaching Kids About the Costs of Racism; Afro-Latino Music; Oscar Nominee Docs: A House Made of Splinters
The Brian Lehrer Show | Feb 22, 2023
Coming up on today's show:
- John "Janno" Lieber, chair and CEO of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), talks about the state of the MTA's finances and other transit news.
- 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) and the new edition for young readers, The Sum of Us: How Racism Hurts Everyone (Delacorte Press, 2023), talks about teaching young readers about the issues of equity and racism and building a future that benefits everyone.
- In honor of Black History Month, we're covering the lesser discussed history of Afro-Latinos every Wednesday of February. This week, Arturo O'Farrill, 6-time Grammy Award-winning pianist and composer, global jazz studies professor at UCLA and the associate dean for equity, diversity, and inclusion at The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, and artistic director of the Afro Latin Jazz Alliance, takes us on a deep dive into Afro-Latino music.
- This week, hear from the creators of the five films nominated for the Best Feature Documentary Oscar, ahead of the ceremony on March 12th. Today: Simon Lereng Wilmont, Danish Peabody Award-winning documentary director, discusses his film, "A House Made of Splinters" about a Ukrainian "halfway house" for vulnerable children.
