30 Issues in 30 Days: Racial Justice and the Presidential Election - a podcast by WNYC

On today's show, a rebroadcast of last night's national call-in special America Are We Ready? co-hosted by Brian Lehrer and WNYC's Kai Wright, host of The United States of Anxiety, where they tackled the big issues related to racial justice and the presidential election, in the show's signature election-year series 30 Issues in 30 days! 

Hour One: TruthThe extent of racial disparity as it exists today, more than 150 years after the end of slavery, more than 50 years after the Civil Rights Act, is a big issue in this year’s election. In this hour with Keisha Blain, University of Pittsburgh historian and president of the African American Intellectual History Society, we’ll account for disparities in wealth and income, health, political power and more, and point to the policies of both parties that have been most responsible for perpetuating those disparities and ask what truths need to be understood in order for any president to make serious progress toward racial equality?

Hour Two: ReconciliationReconciliation doesn’t mean everyone smiles and all is forgiven. When you reconcile a financial statement, you determine who owes who what, and where the money actually goes. In this hour with Black feminist scholar Barbara Smith, founder of the Combahee River Collective, we ask who owes what to whom, financially and otherwise, to approach real equality in America? What and how serious are the Trump and Biden or Democratic and Republican approaches to getting there?

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