Monday Morning Politics; Inequities in School Reopening; A Reckoning for White Christians; The American Tradition of Shaming People on Unemployment
The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 10, 2020
Coming up on today's show:
- Juana Summers, political reporter for NPR covering demographics and culture, discusses the latest political news and previews next week's Democratic National Convention.
- Jessica Gould, WNYC education reporter, Mark Winston Griffith, executive director of the Brooklyn Movement Center, and Dr. Uché Blackstock, emergency medicine physician, founder & CEO of Advancing Health Equities and a Yahoo News medical contributor, join for another week of evolving school reopening plans focusing on COVID era education needs for communities of color.
- Robert P. Jones, CEO and founder of Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and the author of White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity (Simon & Schuster, 2020), looks at the historical reckoning and current opinion surveys to examine the ties between American Christianity and white supremacy.
- WNYC reporter Karen Rouse talks about how some Americans collecting unemployment are feeling shame and stigma for the first time as the debate over the extra $600 of unemployment assistance continues in Congress, and takes your calls.
For transcripts, see individual segment pages.
