Summer Friday: 'Other Tulsas'; Bill Barr's DOJ; Prison Food Justice; Shade as Social Issue; Joni Mitchell's 'Blue' at 50 - a podcast by WNYC

On this Summer Friday, we've put together some of our favorite recent interviews, including:

Jamelle Bouie, New York Times opinion columnist and CBS News analyst, talks about the many other moments in United States history, besides the massacre in a Black neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921, where White Americans committed organized acts of terror seeking the destruction of Black communities and neighborhoods.
Elie Honig, CNN senior legal analyst and author of Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code and Corrupted the Justice Department (HarperCollins, 2021) talks about his new book examining the Bill Barr era at the DOJ, plus offers analysis of current legal issues.
People behind bars are six times more likely to experience food poisoning than those on the outside. Bianca Tylek, Worth Rises’s executive director, and Leslie Soble, a research fellow at Impact Justice, non-profit innovation and research center working towards a more restorative and humane justice system, talk about how companies that provide food to jails and prisons stay profitable by cutting corners.
In a heat wave, shade from trees can be life saving. Alejandra Borunda, former climate scientist and a National Geographic writer on climate change, adaptation, and the environment, explains how redlining and other racist practices mean in many American cities, communities of color often have less access to shade, and what can be done to fix that as the planet continues to warm.
Jessica Hopper, music critic, producer and author of several books, including an expanded second edition of The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic (MCD × FSGO, 2021), discusses how Joni Mitchell's 1971 album "Blue" was shaped by its time and has influenced music for generations to come.

 

These interviews were edited slightly for time, the original versions are available here:

The 'Other' Tulsas (June 7, 2021)

Bill Barr and the Law (July 20, 2021)

The Injustice of Prison Food (April 5, 2021)

Why Shade is an Equity Issue (June 29, 2021)

Iconic at 50: Joni Mitchell's 'Blue' (July 2, 2021)

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