Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. joins low-wage workers at a rally outside the Capitol in Washington, Monday, April 28, 2014, to urge Congress to raise the minimum wage as lawmakers return to Washington.

What's in Store for Congressman Keith Ellison, Guerrilla Girl Donna Kaz, the Criminal World of Museum Curation

The Leonard Lopate Show | Feb 23, 2017

New Yorker staff writer Vinson Cunningham joins us to discuss his latest article, “The Protest Candidate.” (Online: “Will Keith Ellison Move the Democrats Left?”), which profiles Keith Ellison, the Minnesota congressman who ran for the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee. Writer and activist Donna Kaz joins us to discuss her book Un/Masked: Memoirs of a Guerrilla Girl on Tour. Gary Vikan, a medieval scholar and former Director of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, joins us to discuss his latest book, Sacred and Stolen: Confessions of a Museum Director. 

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