Nancy Biberman

Join Brian Lehrer for conversations with Ben Smith, Katie Couric, Jeff Weaver, Peniel Joseph and Raymond Brown. He'll be taking questions from callers and the audience. 

A look at the progress and backlash associated with the civil rights movement in 1968 and how those factors contributed to the election of President Richard Nixon. 

On April 23, 1968, Columbia University was brought to a standstill by a historic student protest.

Nancy Biberman, president and founder of the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation, discusses the de Blasio affordable housing plan, being rolled out today.

In 2007, some Bronx middle school students advocated for sex education classes in their public schools. Nancy Biberman, founder and president of the Bronx community development non-profit WHEDco, and two of the original participants, Yanilsa Frias and Katherine George, now on their way to college, talk about the recent mandate from the Bloomberg administration that schools teach sex education in middle and high schools.

Nancy Biberman, president of Women's Housing and Economic Development Corporation (WHEDCO) in the Bronx argues that sex education should be mandatory in New York's public schools. She is joined by Estephania Paredes, a 9th grade student activist in the WHEDCO program. Then Reverend Debra H. Haffner, a Unitarian Universalist minister ...