The Catch-22 For Biden's VP Pick; Finding Hope in Historical Crises; COVID-19's Impacts on LI's Communities of Color; Poetry for the Pandemic
The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 30, 2020
Coming up on today's show:
- Presumed Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has promised to pick a woman to be his vice president. Rebecca Traister, writer-at-large for New York Magazine and the author of Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger (Simon & Schuster, 2018), talks about what that would mean in the light of recent allegation of sexual assault against Biden.
- Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize-winning presidential historian and author of The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels (Random House, 2018) and host of the new podcast Hope, Through History, explores the history of the Great Depression, the influenza pandemic of 1918, WWII and other calamities and how the nation came together and recovered.
- Martine Hackett, associate professor in the department of health professions at Hofstra University, shares how black communities in Nassau County have been hit disproportionately hard by COVID-19, and what public officials should be doing to try to improve health outcomes.
- On the final day of National Poetry Month, Shumita Basu, WNYC host and reporter, joins us to share some of the listener-submitted poems from the WNYC Poetry Challenge.
