Earlier this month, Lisa Durden who is a political
commentator, gave a fierce defense of a Black Lives Matter chapter’s decision
to host a Memorial Day event exclusively for black people in an interview with
Tucker Carlson on Fox News. Lisa’s remarks on the conservative network earned
her both criticism and praise on social media, however less than 48 hours her
employers at Essex County College suspended her and then about two weeks later,
she was fired from the community college.
Lisa’s dismissal has raised serious questions about freedom of speech
and she joins me along with her attorney Leslie Farber on the show today to
talk all about incident, its fallout, and what you can do to show your
support.
Yesterday, Deputy Press
Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders stood before the White House Press Corp and
defended the president’s tweets decrying CNN as the “Fake News Network,” and
accused virtually all the major news outlets as purveyors of the same, saying
that “I think that we have gone to a place where, if the media can't be trusted
to report the news, then that's a dangerous place for America,”. Joining me today to talk all about
yesterday’s interaction and the reason why the Founders enshrined the press as
the one profession specifically protected in the Bill of Rights is columnist
for The American Prospect Adele M. Stan.
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