A new effort to pass an
Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution is gaining momentum and picking up
state support. Though decades after the first amendment attempt, this movement
to codify equal rights for women comes at a critical time when there have been
efforts to roll back women’s rights in education, health, employment, and even
domestic violence. Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney is the lead sponsor of the bill and joins me on the show today
to talk about advancing women’s rights.
In just one week, Trump
has exploited the presidential pardon power, claimed to be above the law and
added more lies to his repertoire. In “The week Trump went full dictator and no
one tried to stop him,” Philadelphia Daily News columnist Will Bunch
writes that “Hour by hour, lie by lie, dictate by dictate, Donald Trump is
becoming an American dictator. And recent days have proved what many of us have
long feared: That no one knows how to stop this.” He joins me on the show today
to talk about Trump’s unchecked power.
In 2015, Emory University Philosophy Professor George Yancy penned
a New York Times op-ed entitled “Dear White America” asking
white Americans to confront the ways that they benefit from racism. Critics
attacked Yancy in every form possible—including death threats—while supporters
rallied to his side. He wrote about the blowback and ongoing ripples in the
book Backlash: What Happens When We Talk Honestly about Racism in America. He joins me on the show to talk all about
it.
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