Eric Schneiderman Resigns; The Eights | 1948 and the Start of the Civil Rights Movement; Stopping By America's Towns
The Brian Lehrer Show | May 8, 2018
Coming up on today's show:
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Jane Mayer, New Yorker staff writer and the author of Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right (Doubleday, 2016), talks about the abuse allegations she reported (with Ronan Farrow) against New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, prompting him to resign. Then, Alexis Grenell, co-founder of Pythia Public, a political and public affairs firm, and a frequent contributor to the Daily News, puts it in context and discusses what comes next.
- Richard Rothstein, a research associate of the Economic Policy Institute and a fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, and the winner of this year’s Sidney Hillman prize for journalism for The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America (Liveright, 2017), now in paperback, and Jelani Cobb, a historian, professor of journalism at Columbia University and staff writer for The New Yorker, talk about how the government explicitly sanctioned racial segregation in the post-World War Two era, which we’re still feeling today, plus the status of the civil rights movement — and the backlash to it — in 1948.
- James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic, former speechwriter for President Carter and co-author, with Deborah Fallows, of Our Towns: A 100,000-Mile Journey into the Heart of America (Pantheon, 2018), talk about their 5-year journey in a single-engine prop place to small and mid-sized American cities.
