Judge Jones and a Call to End Racial Discrimination

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 26, 2016

Judge Nathaniel R. Jones, former lawyer and judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals who served as general counsel for the NAACP and author of Answering the Call: An Autobiography of the Modern Struggle to End Racial Discrimination in America (The New Press, 2016), discusses the evolution of racial equality in America, starting with the victories of the civil rights era and continues into the present in Ferguson, Baltimore and beyond.

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