What Would Reparations Look Like?; Breaking Down 51 City Council Races; Ask the Mayor; Rethinking Vaccine Outreach

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 4, 2021
Coming up on today's show:
  • The 100-year anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre was this week and it has restarted the conversations surrounding reparations. Andre Perry, senior fellow with the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, a scholar-in-residence at American University, and a columnist for the Hechinger Report, breaks down what reparations would look like and how a town in Illinois may be creating the framework for national reparations.
  • NYC primary voters will have to choose between candidates running for city-wide and borough-wide offices, as well as other offices.  Today, Amanda Luz Henning Santiago, City & State NY staff reporter and author of their Excelsior newsletter, explains the role of the 51 City Council Members.
  • New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.
  • Now that vaccines are more accessible, the approach to convincing the last individuals needs to be reimagined. S. Mitra Kalita, co-founder of URL Media and CEO and publisher of Epicenter-NYC, and Dr. Ayrenne Adams, M.D. M.P.H., primary care doctor and Clinical Leadership Fellow with NYC Health + Hospitals, shares what she is seeing and gives advice to listeners on convincing those in their lives.

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