Monday Morning Politics; Meet the Candidates: Leecia Eve; Who Gets To Use Black English; NYC's Health Commissioner Exit Interview

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 20, 2018

Coming up on today's show:

Philip Bump, Washington Post national correspondent, talks about the latest national political news.
Leecia Eve, a vice president for government affairs at Verizon who worked for Sen. Hillary Clinton and for Gov. Andrew Cuomo, talks about her bid for the Democratic nomination for New York attorney general in the primary election on September 13th.
John McWhorter, teaches linguistics at Columbia University and author of The Power of Babel, Our Magnificent Bastard Tongue, and What Language Is, digs into why a white poet using African American Vernacular English outraged so many readers, and asks if there is away to imitate AAVE without being offensive.
Dr. Mary Bassett, commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, looks back on her tenure as NYC's health commissioner.

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