The #MomOfTheYear Controversy

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 1, 2015

Stacey Patton, a senior enterprise reporter for the Chronicle of Higher Education, an adjunct professor of American history at American University, and the author of That Mean Old Yesterday, discusses Toya Graham, the Baltimore mother caught on camera physically disciplining her son at the riots and why all that attention isn't necessarily a good thing.

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