More Floods Are Coming. How Can Cities Prepare?; Returning from Radicalization; J'ouvert on the Radio; Remembering The Concert For Bangladesh; Ask the Mayor

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 2, 2021

Coming up on today's show:

  • This week's storm was responsible for dramatic flooding in the New York City metro area.  Rebecca Hersher, reporter on NPR's Science Desk, where she reports on outbreaks, natural disasters, and environmental and health research, talks about how cities across the country and globe are trying to adapt their underground transit systems in the face of climate change and Annel Hernandez, associate director of the New York City Environmental Justice Alliance, talks about the city's and state's plans for climate change adaptation.
  • Carla Power, author of If the Oceans Were Ink and her latest book, Home, Land, Security: Deradicalization and the Journey Back From Extremism (One World, 2021), talks about her new book that explores the process of "deradicalization" and how to respond to extremism to lessen its grip.
  • Listeners who would normally be out for J'ouvert and The West Indian Day Parade call in to celebrate their Caribbean culture.
  •  Aaron Cohen, author of Move On Up: Chicago Soul Music and Black Cultural Power (University of Chicago Press, 2019) and Amazing Grace (Bloomsbury, 2011) and professor at City Colleges of Chicago, discusses how George Harrison's concert and album "The Concert For Bangladesh" was shaped by its time and has influenced music for generations to come.
  • New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio takes calls from listeners and discusses this week in NYC.

 

Transcripts are posted to the individual segment pages as soon as they are available.

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