The Brian Lehrer Show

New York City Street Vendor (ratherbebiking/flickr)

There Goes the Neighborhood

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

In the forty years since the Civil Rights Movement what has happened to integration in our cities? William Julius Wilson talks about why our cities are diverse but not integrated in terms of race or class. Plus, the winner of the Vendy Awards, which celebrates excellence in street cuisine.

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If I Had a Book Deal....

Sarah Crichton, publisher of Sarah Crichton Books, a new imprint at Farrar, Straus & Giroux and co-author, A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl (Scribner Book Company)
- talks about why OJ Simpson and the book deal that wasn't

A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl available for purchase at Amazon.com

Going Into Laborers

Kevin Plunket, Partner in the law firm Thacher Proffitt and Wood and lead trial attorney for Mamaroneck
and
Fernanda Santos, Metro Reporter for the New York Times
and
Alan Levine, Special Counsel for the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund
-on the ruling that police in Mamaroneck harassed day laborers

Veni, Vidi, Vendy

Sean Basinski, Director of the Street Vendor Project
and
Thiru "Dosa Man" Kumar, vendor at Washington Square Park South at Sullivan Street
and
Samiul Haque Noor, from "Sammy's Halal" at 73rd Street and Broadway, Queens
-discuss "The Vendy Awards", given to the city's best street vendor.

There Goes the Neighborhood

William Julius Wilson ,Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor and Director of Joblessness and Urban Poverty Research Program at Harvard University, and author, There Goes the Neighborhood: Racial, Ethnic and Class Tensions in Four Chicago Neighborhoods and Their Meaning for America(Knopf 2006)
-talks about class and race tension in Urban America

There Goes the Neighborhood, available for purchase at Amazon.com