We’ll explore a question raised by the Sean Bell shooting: Can black police officers be racist? Two of the shooters on the Bell case were black and two others were also non-white, leading to a different kind of debate about the role of race. Also, astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson, on his new book Death by Black Hole and why he thinks science and religion can get along; plus, a survey of Republican presidential hopefuls, and Eugene Robinson on the execution of Saddam Hussein.
Role of Race in Racism
John McWhorter, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and author of Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America (Gotham Books, 2005),
- says it's time to have a discussion about why young men of color keep getting into altercations with police
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- says it's time to have a discussion about why young men of color keep getting into altercations with police
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The Field on the Right
Todd Purdham, Vanity Fair national editor,
- surveys the field of Republican presidential hopefuls
Read Todd Purdham's profile of John McCain from the February issue of Vanity Fair
- surveys the field of Republican presidential hopefuls
Read Todd Purdham's profile of John McCain from the February issue of Vanity Fair
Life, the Universe and Everything
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History, director of the Hayden Planetarium, host of NOVA scienceNOW and author Death By Black Hole And Other Cosmic Quandaries (W.W. Norton, 2006)
- discusses life, the universe and the meaning of it all
Death ...
- discusses life, the universe and the meaning of it all
Death ...
Through a cellphone darkly
Eugene Robinson, columnist and associate editor at the Washington Post, and author of Last Dance in Havana (Free Press, 2004),
- on what the cellphone video of Saddam Hussein’s execution says about Iraq’s future—and its past
- on what the cellphone video of Saddam Hussein’s execution says about Iraq’s future—and its past
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Neil DeGrasse Tyson, astrsophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History, director of the Hayden Planetarium, and author of "Death by Black ...
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