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This edition: MLK Jr. Day And Obama's Farewell

Episode Details

Original tape date: January 11, 2017. First aired: January 11, 2017.

In light of Martin Luther King Junior Day a look at racial and social progress in America. Brian's guest include Janai Nelson, associate and director counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund and urban revitalization strategist Majora Carter.

Guest List

Majora Carter Urban Revitalization Strategist; Founder, StartUp Box

Janai Nelson Associate Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Ed Fund

  • About this series

  • In January, POTUS 2016 officially becomes POTUS 2017 with popular WNYC host Brian Lehrer. The weekly half-hour program keeps watch on the oval office with a roundtable of guests. A regular segment, “Evidence-Based Politics,” looks deeply into one timely issue with a researcher who has published a rigorous study on the subject. The segment is designed to pour cold hard facts on the overheated political rhetoric that can misinform the public and policy-makers.

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