Hate Crimes; Bail Reform in NJ; 'Sober Curious'; #BLTrees

Mayor Adams urged all New Yorkers to reserve judgement about his Blueprint to End Gun Violence until they read the actual plan. So let's read it and talk about it together on the show. Here are some discussion questions to get you started.

On today's show:

• Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino, discusses the rise of anti-Black and anti-Asian hate crimes around the country and in New York City.
• Elie Honig, senior legal analyst at CNN, host of the CAFE podcast "Up Against The Mob," and former New Jersey and federal prosecutor, and Alexander Shalom, senior supervising attorney and director of Supreme Court advocacy at the ACLU-NJ, talk about how bail reform has worked in New Jersey since 2017.
• Ana Marie Cox, writer, host of the science fiction podcast "Space the Nation," and author of The Cut's new advice column about sobriety, answers listener questions about drinking and not drinking.
• We check in on our year-long project #BLTrees, following the seasons through the trees around us with Marielle Anzelone, urban botanist and ecologist and the founder of NYC Wildflower Week. This month, she's joined by Myla Aronson, professor in the Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources department at Rutgers University, director of the Hutcheson Memorial Forest, one of the last remaining old growth forests in New Jersey, and co-director of Urban Biodiversity Research Coordination Network (UrBioNet) to talk about the urban forests and the differences between planted trees and wild growth, and why that distinction matters.

Transcripts are posted to each segment page as soon as they are available.