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Gay in the NBA
John Amaechi has just become the first former pro basketball player to announce publicly that he's gay. You've been hearing the backlash in the news. Now hear him explain why he waited until he retired to write Man in the Middle. Also, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, and facing America's history of lynching.
Speaker in the (WNYC) House
Christine Quinn, speaker, New York City Council, talks about her State of the City address, middle school reform, and tax credits for renters.
Basketball's Closet
John Amaechi, former NBA player and author, Man in the Middle
(ESPN Books, 2007), talks about being gay in the NBA and the reaction to his book--and why he once turned down a $17 million contract in favor of a $600,000 one.
Man in the Middle is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Restoring Justice
In her new book, The Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Lynching in the Twenty-First Century (Beacon Press, 2007) civil rights lawyer and law professor Sherrilyn Ifill, asks if the U.S. should look to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation process to address the history of lynching.
The Courthouse Lawn is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Event
Sherrilyn Ifill will read from The Courthouse Lawn at
Hue-Man Bookstore
2319 Frederick Douglass Blvd.
Saturday, Feb 24th at 4 p.m.
Blue Skies
Alexandra Marks, correspondent, The Christian Science Monitor, talks about JetBlue and their proposed Passenger Bill of Rights
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
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Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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