Wednesday Morning Politics; NYC Summer Memories; One Bed-Stuy School's Integration Story; The Flags You Fly

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 5, 2023

Coming up on today's show:

  • Susan Glasser, staff writer for The New Yorker and co-author, with Peter Baker, of The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 (Doubleday, 2022), talks about the latest national political news after the long holiday weekend.

  • Elizabeth Glazer, founder of the journal Vital City and former director of the New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, talks about indelible NYC summer memories, and shares her thoughts on the state of public safety and criminal justice in the city.

  • Clara Hemphill, founding editor of InsideSchools.org and the author of A Brighter Choice: Building a Just School in an Unequal City (Teachers College Press, 2023), talks about her new book which follows a group of parents at a public school in gentrifying Bed-Stuy as they try to come together across racial and class lines. And Keesha Wright-Sheppard, Brighter Choice Community School PTA president, talks about the work of the parents at school.

  • The day after Independence Day, listeners call in to share all the different types of flags they fly and how they represent their values.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

 

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