How Colleges Really Work, Reading Children's Books As An Adult, How Bananas Reach Your Bodega, The Lost Stories Of Missing Black Girls

The Leonard Lopate Show | Aug 14, 2017

Jacques Berlinerblau explains the inner workings of higher education. Bruce Handy revisits children's literature as an adult. Annie Correal on the long journey bananas take to get to your bodega. Rotando Freeman and BuzzFeed's Jessica Testa discuss how law enforcement and the media investigates and cover missing black girls.

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