Julian Bond and Barack Obama during The 36th Annual NAACP Image Awards - Show at Dorothy Chandler Pavillion in Los Angeles, California, United States.

America's Controversial Legacy: Black Leadership, and The Death Penalty

The Leonard Lopate Show | Mar 6, 2015

Washington Post national reporter Mark Berman discusses the challenges of performing lethal injections as the drugs become less readily available. Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke talks about her latest engagement at Carnegie Hall. Author and performer Ben Rimalower’s new performance about his spending addiction. Historian Phyllis Leffler and activist and politician Julian Bond talk about the Civil Rights Movement and Black leadership in America.

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Composting Under the Mamdani Administration

Gregory Anderson talks about the sanitation department's work in enforcing the composting laws.

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Trump's Refugee Program Is Reserved for Whites Only

10,000 new spots for Afrikaners

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Queens body shop owner uses illegal tow truck scheme to flaunt wealthy 'f---ing life'

David Borukhov recruits tow truck drivers on Instagram, pitching the line of work as a way to get rich quick.

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Mayor Mamdani to appear on WNYC’s ‘Ask the Mayor' with Brian Lehrer

The mayor will join the show for quarterly interviews beginning Tuesday, June 2.