What to Tell Your Kids About COVID-19, The First American Women To Vote, 'Lost Family,' 'Radium Girls'

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Mar 12, 2020

Lead editor of parenting at The New York Times, Jessica Grose, joins us to discuss her piece “8 Questions Parents May Have About Coronavirus” and take listeners’ calls.

Ben Yakas of Gothamist joins us to discuss what stories he and the team are following this week.

Historian Carol Simon Levin explains how New Jersey women got the right to vote in 1776, almost 150 years before the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, for our year-long series, “Keep It 100.”

Author Libby Copeland joins us to talk about her book, The Lost Family: How DNA Testing Is Upending Who We Are.

Directors Lydia Dean Pilcher and Ginny Mohler join us to discuss their new film "Radium Girls," which they also co-wrote.

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