Monday Morning Politics; NJ Education Under Future Gov. Sherrill; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: Protest and Ideology

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 19
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On today's show: 

  • Eleanor Mueller, congress reporter at Semafor, talks about the latest national political news of the day.

  • Jessie Gómez, Chalkbeat Newark reporter covering Newark Public Schools, talks about what to expect from New Jersey's new governor on education issues.

  • Gloria Browne-Marshall, professor of constitutional law at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, civil rights attorney, and author of A Protest History of the United States (Beacon Press, 2025), talks about the exercise of what Dr. King called the American "right to protest for right."

  • Peniel Joseph, Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century (Basic Books, 2022), talks about what was accomplished, as well as the inequality that remained unaddressed.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

 

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