Monday Morning Politics with Jonathan Lemire; What to Expect From New DSNY Guidelines; History of the March on Washington; The Post-Civil Rights Reality
The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 28, 2023
Coming up on today's show:
- Jonathan Lemire, host of “Way Too Early" on MSNBC, Politico White House bureau chief, and the author of The Big Lie: Election Chaos, Political Opportunism, and the State of American Politics After 2020 (Flatiron Books, 2022), discuses the latest national political news.
- As the New York City Department of Sanitation plans to ramp up its fines for restaurants and residential buildings, Sophia Chang, WNYC/Gothamist reporter, joins to break down the new guidelines and their deadlines, plus other sanitation-related news.
- The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place in Washington on August 28, 1963, and is where MLK gave his "I Have a Dream" speech. William Jones, historian at the University of Minnesota and the author of The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights (W.W. Norton & Co., 2013), talks about the march and listeners share their memories of the day.
- Kyle Moore, economist with the Economic Policy Institute’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy at the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), talks about a new report from EPI that examines the economic impact of Civil Rights-era legislation and where gaps remain.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
