The Leonard Lopate Show

Bushwick Homecomings

Bushwick was one of New York's poorest areas in the 1990s, but it's now becoming part of the wave of gentrification sweeping across the city. Stephanie Joshua's new documentary, Bushwick Homecomings, explores how residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood are reacting the rapid changes going on around them and what those changes might mean for their futures.

Bushwick Homecomings is screening at the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival. For more infromation, visit the festival website.

For more information about film, including dates of other upcoming screenings, visit the film's website.

Weigh in: How has your neighborhood been changed by gentrification?

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Banished

During the time between the Civil War and the Great Depression, dozens of Southern counties banished thriving African-American communities from their midst. This little-known phenomenon typically began with a criminal accusation of a black man and his lynching, followed by the violent eviction of all the black families living in the county - and the subsequent appropriation of their land. Today, these counties remain virtually all white and their victims’ descendants remain uncompensated. Filmmaker and New York University film professor Marco Williams interviewed both white and black residents of three such counties in Georgia, Missouri, and Arkansas for his new documentary, Banished: How Whites Drive Blacks Out of Town in America.

Banished will be playing at Film Forum though October 9.

Marco Williams will take part in a Q&A session
tonight at 8 pm
at Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street.
Call 212-727-8112 for tickets.

Weigh in: How have you been affected by racism?

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Please Explain: Currency Valuation

Anyone who has traveled outside the United States knows that the value of a dollar all depends on where you are. On today's Please Explain, Professor Mark Duckenfield of the London School of Economics and Associate Editor for Barron's Mike Santoli are here to answer your questions about how currencies are valued, how exchange rates are set, how currencies are traded, how relative values affect international trade, and how recent trends in currency values can affect your wallet.

Call us at 212-433-WNYC or post your questions and comments here.

Weigh in: How has the weak dollar affected you?

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Lust, Caution

Director Ang Lee discusses "Lust, Caution," his new film based on a short story by Eileen Chang. The movie takes place in Shanghai just before the outbreak of World War II, and follows a young Chinese actress as she becomes part of an intricate plot to ensnare a top Japanese collaborator.

Lust, Caution opens tonight at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas and in theaters nationwide on October 5. For more information, visit the film's website.

Listen to our Underappreicated Literature series segment about Eileen Change, author of Lust, Caution, here.

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