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Black Youth Project
Organizer with the Black Youth Project and the Coalition of End Sheriff Violence in LA Jails; PhD candidate in the Department of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California
PROFILE
Kai M. Green
Guest
FROM Kai M. Green
Which Way, L.A.?
Racial Stereotyping: How Dangerous Is It for Young Black Men? Local reaction is focused not just on the Rodney King riots 21 years ago, but on a more recent incident. Just a month after the Trayvon Martin killing, Kendrec McDade was shot to death on the streets of Pasadena. He, too, was an unarmed, black teenager, killed because police thought he had a gun.
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Janesville and the American Dream Janesville, Wisconsin is the hometown of Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan. But he couldn’t prevent the closing of the General Motors factory after 100 years. On this Memorial Day rebroadcast of To the Point, we hear what’s happened to what once was a model of American middle-class unity.
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Who's to blame for the opioid crisis? Some of the lawyers who took on Big Tobacco are now going after Big Pharma. It’s all about the deadly epidemic of opioid use. Are the drug companies to blame? What about the users? Later, on today’s Talking Point: making sense of Britain’s upset election.