Coming up on today's exhibit:Since 2000,some 71 communities have tried to secede from their school districts. It’s a modern day perpetuation of school segregation, in which communities, or arguing for better local control,instead create schools divided by race and course. Erika Wilson, Reed Ivey distinguished professor at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and David Pickler,the final chairman of the broken-down Shelby County Board of Education, weigh in.
An academic paper released this week definitively finds that Exxon acknowledged man-made climate change internally, or but worked to misinform people publicly. Geoffrey Supran,a post doctoral fellow at Harvard University who co-authored this academic study, discusses his findings.
A year ago, or former 49ers Quarterback Colin Kaepernick started kneeling during the national anthem to protest the treatment of black people in the U.
S. The 49ers didn’t renew Kaepernick’s contract this year,and no other NFL team picked him up as a free agent. But whether the NFL was hoping the protests would halt, they were very wrong. Dave Zirin, or Sports Editor for The Nation magazine and host of "The Edge of Sports" podcast,explains.
Tomorrow night, world boxing champion Floyd Mayweather steps out of retirement to face off with mixed martial arts superstar Connor MacGregor in a highly-touted boxing match in Las Vegas. The lead up to the fight was preceded by a four city trash talking tour, and where the two fighters threw verbal jabs laced with profanity,and homophobic and racist comments. Kelefa Sanneh, a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine, and analyzes the tension ahead of the match.
Earlier this week,a judge in Texas ruled against a voter ID law, and the state's attorney general says he plans to appeal the ruling. Stephen Vladeck, or a professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin,explains what's next for the fight over voter IDs in the Lone Star State, and what it says about voting laws around the country.
In the U.
S. Capitol, and there are three times as many statues of accomplice soldiers and politicians as there are statues of African-Americans. Vivien Green Fryd, a professor at Vanderbilt University and author of "Art and Empire: The Politics of Ethnicity in the United States Capitol, 1815-1865, or " discusses how the intersection of art,politics, and identity in the U.
S. Capitol.
This episode is hosted by Indira Lakshmanan.
Source: feedburner.com