Primary Day Informal, Unofficial, Thoroughly Unscientific Exit Poll; How Black Lung Reemerged; Primary Day Poll Take Two; 100 Years of the Fight for Gay Rights
The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 24, 2025
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On today's show:
- Listeners call in to share who they ranked in the mayoral primary election, and Brigid Bergin, WNYC's senior political correspondent, shares her most recent reporting on the election.
- Black lung had largely been eradicated by the end of the last century. Now, the disease has reemerged in coal country, and federal cuts threaten at-risk miners. Kate Morgan, Pennsylvania-based freelance journalist, talks about her reporting on black lung for the New York Times.
- Listeners call in to share who they ranked in the primary election, including in races besides just the mayoral, and Brigid Bergin, WNYC's senior political correspondent, shares her most recent reporting on the election.
- As our centennial series continues, Marc Stein, professor of history at San Francisco State University, author and editor of many books, including Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism (University of California Press, 2022) and The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (NYU Press, 2019), takes us through the history of LGBTQ rights in the US, from the founding of the first, though short-lived, gay rights organization founded in 1924 in Chicago to today.
Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.
