Brian Lehrer Weekend: Nikole Hannah-Jones; Ali Velshi; Medical Aid in Dying
The Brian Lehrer Show
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🗓️ 18 May 2024
⏱️ 87 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, Brian Laira here. |
| 0:01.3 | Up next, Brian Lairor Weekend, |
| 0:03.0 | three of our favorite segments from the week, |
| 0:05.0 | packaged together for you to listen to on the weekend. |
| 0:07.6 | So enjoy, and I'll see you back on the radio Monday at 10 a.m. |
| 0:11.2 | on WNYC and WNYC.org. |
| 0:14.3 | Thank you. It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. |
| 0:36.7 | Good morning again, everyone. With us now, New York Times Magazine, |
| 0:40.4 | correspondent Nicole Hannah-Jones on her recent essay that you may have seen in the Times Magazine |
| 0:45.1 | about the history and current politics of colorblindness in American racial politics. |
| 0:51.1 | It's called The Colorblindness Trap how a civil rights ideal got hijacked. |
| 0:56.2 | The news hook is the Supreme Court ruling last year that bans most race-based affirmative |
| 1:01.7 | action in higher education, and the legal follow-ups to that, even, and this may sound surreal |
| 1:07.9 | and like a bad satire if it wasn't so serious, but the so-called colorblindness |
| 1:12.6 | movement is even challenging HBCUs, historically black colleges and universities like Howard, |
| 1:18.9 | where Nicole also teaches, on whether they can take race into account in their admissions process, |
| 1:25.1 | even as the Supreme Court made it harder to get in elsewhere. |
| 1:28.5 | Nicole Hannah-Jones is probably best known for her Pulitzer Prize-winning essay in the Times |
| 1:33.1 | 1619 Project, which she spearheaded. She's a MacArthur Genius Grant winner, and even won an |
| 1:39.6 | Emmy recently for the Hulu TV, Hulu TV 1619 docu series. The book version of the 1619 project is also about |
| 1:48.9 | to be released in paperback. Again, her recent essay in the Times that we'll be talking about |
| 1:54.4 | is called the colorblindness trap. Nicole, nice to have you on again. Welcome back to WNYC. |
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