Program Information

#683 -- Police

Series:

Subtitle:

Program Type:

Weekly Program

Featured Speakers/Commentators:

Jill Lepore (read); Malcolm X, Marlon Wayans, Kenneth Dowst

Contributor:

Kenneth Dowst Contact Contributor

Date Published:

April 4, 2021, 6:53 p.m.

Summary: Various perspectives--all of them critical--on the police. The show includes a comedy sketch by Marlon Wayans, a song by David Rovics, and 2 recordings of Malcolm X. KD reads from historian Jill Lepore's recent article, "The Long Blue Line" and also tells of a recent killing (of Jose Soto) by police in his own town.

Credits: Jill Lepores article appears in The New Yorker magazine, July 20, 2020.

New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "inflexible deadlines") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

Notes: You can download this installment of New World Notes--in MP3 and other formats--also from The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). The page with the download links is here: https://archive.org/download/nwn-683-police-192k

More details, photos, nice links, & other good stuff on the show's Web site: https://newworldnotes.blogspot.com

SERIES OVERVIEW -- Political and social commentary in a variety of genres. Exploring the gap between what we want ... and what they're trying to make us settle for. "Date recorded," below, = date of first scheduled broadcast.

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