Program. This is our special your fiction on in depth. Youll see authors this month we are pleased to have Colson Whitehead as our guests. His most recent book is the underground railroad. Whats the appropriate response when its praised by oprah, president obama, was the appropriate response . Guest this book is taken off in a way thats unexpected and wonderful. Mostly i thank my lucky stars and i sleep a little better, im in a better mood generally i try to enjoy it despite my best efforts. Host what is up regina better food . Ive been writing for 20 some years. Sometimes you read a book and people understand and sometimes you write it and nobody cares. And it disappears. So ive the pride and thinking i did a good job with the book. The bonus of other people liking it as well. Host your first book was intuition us. How do you sell a book like that . Guest exactly. With that book either when i send it to my age in either you dig the concept of the two groups or you dont. Further along
Philadelphia tuesday to address the naacp convention. On thursday, he will be the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. Hell tour the el rino federal correctional facility outside of Oklahoma City and discuss changes. We want to begin with this wall street journal headline. New hud rules. The government can withhold moneys from communities that fail to address segregation issues. We want to get your calls as to whether or not you support or oppose this idea. For those who supported we want to begin with this sunday morning editorial from the New York Times. Here is what it says. Thene end of federally financed ghettos. The Supreme Court issued an important ruling what it reminded state and federal government that the fair housing law bars them from spending federal housing money in racial segregation host tell us what you think about these new housing rules put in place by hud. Laura kusisto is following this for the wall street journal. Thank you very much for being with
That across the country, states re scrambling to fill teachers roles, california hit hardest. California, the situation is more stark. California lost 82,000 jobs in the recession, teacher jobs. They are trying to fill 21,500 for this this slots coming school year. Also, a story about cocacola and obesity. The front line is that the company, cocacola, funds and effort to curb the obesity battle, emphasis on exercise. Critics say this message is misleading. Some other news for you this morning. Front pages of wall street New York Times this morning. Floyd in indiana, an independent. What do you think of Political Correctness . Caller i think donald trump is exactly right. I have been watching cspan for a long long time. They come up with different lives on every situation. I watched the debate on thursday night, and all of the questions they asked the different candidates, no one asked the question about what they would do on iran. All of them are talking about what obama and Hillary Cl
You to protest properly. [applause] max we are going to turn to the other folks here in a couple of minutes. Struck by, in the aftermath of the rights of the 1960s, you do get groups who try to take on the police more directly directly, like the panthers. In our day and age, we have black lives matter, which is a different kind of formation. Robin we have cop watch. We have Police Monitoring all the time. But they dont get attention. Harold there is physical documentation of police abuse. It happens again somewhere else and we see it again. It creates to make, without inflictedlly changing on innercity residents it changes the atmosphere somehow. Hawley there is a big blackence between the lives movement and the brothers and sisters and black berets and leather jackets. Our notion of the power dynamic is for me to get power i must take it from you. That evoke sphere in the masses. Max one issue we just test upon is economic power. We talk about the police. We talk about black lives mat
Host dr. Neil Degrasse Tyson did your new book astrophysics for people in a hurry you open by saying the universe is under no obligation to make sense what does that mean . I think up until the year 1600 when we had no particular tools to investigate the Natural World the five senses were the primary means we gave all information about the universe and not even knowing that our five senses had live and said everything you know, the thinking of letting tries to give you but it is not better run at 1500 it would go one direction than the telescope it was a decade within one another now it becomes available to us to transcend our senses to look inside a drop of pond water to see microorganisms doing the backstroke that the sensory system could not have detected with not for the microscope so the welcome to the universe tire living creatures living in a drop of water but today we know that from childhood but that made no sense at all without Royal Society in london when they make a discove