Anti-Trans Legislation Spreads; City's Voucher Program in Disarray; Gun Laws Relaxed Despite Violence; Abrahamic Holy Month: Interfaith Dialogue
Coming up on today's show:
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Alejandra Caraballo, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic and former staff attorney at the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund and the LGBTQ Law Project at New York Legal Assistance Group, discusses the human rights and legal implications of the anti-trans legislation being passed in states like Kentucky, Tennessee and Louisiana.
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David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC/Gothamist, talks about the problems within the city's voucher program, intended to help homeless New Yorkers get back on their feet, that led to a group of tenants filing a lawsuit yesterday.
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Jennifer Mascia, senior news writer and a founding staffer at The Trace, discusses the recent gun-related headlines, including the protests following the shooting at a private Christian school in Nashville and a recent Florida law that no longer requires permits for concealed carry.
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Sharon Kleinbaum, senior rabbi and spiritual leader of Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in New York City, Imam Khalid Latif, university chaplain for New York University, and executive director of the Islamic Center at NYU and Jacqueline Lewis, senior minister at Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village and the author of Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World (Harmony, 2021), share their relationship to their faith, plus talk about some of the similarities in the three Abrahamic religions.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
