Who are the Activists Changing our World?

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 13, 2016

The twenty-first century saw the most remarkable social changes of our country's history. Greg Jobin-Leeds, author and social activist, takes us through the most recent key movements including #BlackLivesMatter, Occupy Wall Street and the People’s Climate March in his book When We Fight, We Win! Twenty-First-Century Social Movements and the Activists that are Transforming Our World. Joining him to discuss the book are Rachel Schragis, an activist who participated in Occupy Wall Street and helped organize Domestic Worker Justice, and Rinku Sen, publisher of Race Forward and Color Lines. 

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