Special Programming
March For Our Lives
WNYC and NPR-affiliates air live discussions and reports on the coordination of marches around the country to demand gun control.
Hour 1:
-Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz is a California-based historian and activist. Her most recent book is, “Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment.” She has written many many books including a memoir about growing up in Oklahoma called, “Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie,” and “An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.”
-Jonathan Capehart (in Washington DC) and Christina Greer (in New York City) will provide national news analysis and commentary
Hour 2:
-Jennifer Carlson is based at the University of Arizona. Her recent book, “Citizen-Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline,” is about the politics around gun-carrying. Carlson is an expert on the politics and the policing of guns.
-Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles will join the program. Other elected leaders TBD.