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Indiana and North Carolina Results
Another primary closer to the Democratic Convention; has anything changed? WNYC’s Andrea Bernstein and Princeton professor Melissa Harris-Lacewell analyze the results from Indiana and North Carolina. Plus, Mary Tillman pays tribute to her son Pat Tillman in Boots on the Ground by Dusk , and Debbie Almontaser recalls her career as former head of Khalil Gibran International Academy.
Primary Results
WNYC Political Director Andrea Bernstein and Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Associate Professor of Politics and African American Studies at Princeton University, review the Democratic presidential primary results from Indiana and North Carolina.
NYPD: Stop and Search Record at Record High
NYPD officers set a record of stop and frisk searches for 2008. The number has left some questioning if some of those searches are racially motivated. New York Post reporter Leonardo Blair says he fell victim to racial profiling last year. His case has since attracted the attention of the New York Civil Liberties Union. Donna Lieberman, executive director of the NYCLU, explains the suit against the NYPD and the City of New York.
Update: Sean Bell Ruling
Today, organized "pray-ins" are scheduled for six locations around New York City. Coordinated by Reverend Al Sharpton, these demonstrations aim to draw attention to last weeks ruling involving the death of Sean Bell. New York State Senator Eric Adams and President of the Citizen's Crime Commission Richard Aborn discuss the latest.
Ousted Principal Responds
Debbie Almontaser is the former head of Khalil Gibran International Academy, New York City's first Arabic-language public school. She's currently seeking reinstatement as principal in the wake of controversy surrounding the school's curriculum.
A Mother's Story
Mary Tillman, mother of former NFL-player Pat Tillman, discusses her investigation into her son's friendly-fire death in Afghanistan. Her new book is Boots on the Ground By Dusk.
Event: Mary Tillman will be speaking tonight at 7pm, Barnes and Noble at 82nd and Broadway. Details can be found here.
Open Phones: The Brighter Side
Listeners give their take on the happier things in life. With all the tough issues we hit today, tell us something to lift our spirits!
Here's what makes one of the BL producers happy!
...and here's one that makes another BL producer happy!
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The Rocky Road Ahead
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [40]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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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.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
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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