Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Kamala Harris as the ‘progressive prosecutor’
California Senator Kamala Harris is running for president in 2020. She’s positioning herself as someone who has always fought for civil rights. But does her record as California’s attorney general and San Francisco district attorney back that up?
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readCalifornia Senator Kamala Harris is running for president in 2020. She’s positioning herself as someone who has always fought for civil rights. But does her record as California’s attorney general and San Francisco district attorney back that up? One New York Times op-ed argues Harris was frequently “on the wrong side of history.”
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Sarah Sweeney
Vice President of Talk Programming, KCRW
Michell Eloy
Former Producer/Line Editor, Press Play
Amy Ta
Digital News & Culture Editor
Lara Bazelon
director of the criminal juvenile justice clinic and the racial justice clinic at University of San Francisco Law School
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