It's the Brian Laris Show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone.

Today on the show for Juneteenth, we are honored to have the great Harvard historian, Taya Miles.

Maybe you read her National Book Award winning

bestseller, All That She Carried, which came out in 2021. She's got a new book called Night Flyer,

Harriet Tubman, and the Faith Dreams of a Free People, which is a biography, but also more than a

biography of Tubman as an individual. Looking forward to Tyam Miles coming up today.

And we'll take your Juneteenth calls later for descendants of enslaved African Americans

on what you've learned about your family history from the modern genealogy tools like DNA tests

that are available today and how what you've learned has affected you as you

live your life today. And we'll have our lead Eric Adams reporter, Elizabeth Kibb, as usual on

Wednesdays after the mayor's weekly news conference. Topics today will include compensating

for the closing of libraries on Sundays in the heat waves of summer, with libraries often used

by people without AC as cooling centers. And Mayor Adams on the idea, Governor Hockel floated

of banning masks on the subways. Is it increasing COVID risk to decrease heat crimes risk?

Would you make that trade? That's all coming up,

but we start with a political earthquake rocking New Jersey, the indictment of Democratic Party

power broker George Norcross on racketeering charges, and who better to explain this

Garden State intrigue than our own Nancy Solomon, who hosts the

monthly Ask Governor Murphy Call-in Show here on WNYC.

The Murphy-Norcross relationship has been notoriously complicated, and Nancy is host of the

acclaimed WNYC podcast series, Dead End, a New Jersey political murder mystery, which is very much about

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