Fears In Little Pakistan, Brooklyn; Local Farms Feel The Pressure Of ICE; The Unlikely First Women Soldiers; Helene Stapinski Uncovers a Family Murder

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 20, 2017

Jennifer Gonnerman and Mohammad Razvi discuss the growing fear and anxiety about hate crimes and immigration roundups in Little Pakistan, Brooklyn. Novelist Elizabeth Cobbs discusses the women soldiers who operated the telephone switchboards in France for the U.S. Army during World War I. Journalist Helene Stapinski investigates a family mystery involving her great-great-grandmother. Journalist Michael Frank, Director at Greenmarket Michael Hurwitz, and Zaid, one of the organic farmers who supplies food to the NYC Greenmarkets, explore how farmers and farmworkers in upstate New York are faring under the current administration — and a newly emboldened ICE. 

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