Live From The Greene Space: National Politics; The Eights | What Unites Us in 2018; Why Juneteenth Matters

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 19, 2018

Live from The Greene Space, you'll hear:

Catherine Rampell, opinion columnist for The Washington Post, talks about the national political news of the day.
Michael D'Antonio, executive editor of The Harris Poll and co-author (with John Gerzema) of The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future (Jossey-Bass, 2013), and Christina Greer, associate professor of political science at Fordham University and the author of Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford University Press 2013), discuss the findings of the Brian Lehrer Show and Harris poll with a look at what unites Americans.
Dr. Sherrill D. Wilson, urban anthropologist; former director of the Office of Public Education and Interpretation at the New York African Burial Ground Project; professor at Manhattan College and author of New York City's Black Slaveowners: A Social and Material Culture History (Garland Pub. Co, 1994), and Kenneth C. Davis, author of the "Don't Know Much About History" series and In the Shadow of Liberty: The Hidden History of Slavery, Four Presidents, and Five Black Lives (Henry Holt and Co, 2016), talk about the legacy of Juneteenth, a celebration of the end of slavery, in the age of mass incarceration, Black Lives Matter and the reappraisal of the Confederate monuments.