Leonard Lopate Weekend: Mothers Tackling Racism; The Women Who Transformed Astronomy; Investigating ISIS

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 6, 2017

April Ryan, veteran journalist, host and Washington Bureau Chief for American Urban Radio Networks (AURN), discusses her latest book, "At Mama’s Knee: Mothers and Race in Black and White." Dava Sobel discusses her latest book "The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars." Graeme Wood, a national correspondent for The Atlantic, joins us to discuss his book, "The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State."

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