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Support for Forum comes from Broadway S.F. presenting Parade, the musical revival based

on a true story. From three-time Tony-winning composer Jason Robert Brown comes the story of Leo and

Lucille Frank, a newlywed Jewish couple struggling to make a life in Georgia. When Leo is accused

of an unspeakable crime, it propels them into an unimaginable test of faith, humanity, justice,

and devotion.

The riveting and gloriously hopeful parade plays the Orphium Theater for three weeks only, May 20th through June 8th.

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From KQED. I'm Michael Krasny.

Coming up next on forum, defund the police may be a new rallying crime, but according to Harvard historian Khalil Ghi

Gibran Muhammad, black reformers, scholars, and activists have been calling out systemic racism

and law enforcement for at least 100 years. We'll talk to Professor Muhammad about historical

attempts to root out the use of excessive force, racial profiling, and other unconstitutional policing

practices, and obstacles to reform.

And we'll also discuss whether we as a nation are ready to accept an alternative vision

of policing.

That's next after this news. Welcome to Forum.

As the nation continues to reckon with the killing of George Floyd, which laid bare yet again the police's

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