The Brian Lehrer Show

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. What 'La Brega' Means to Puerto Ricans (First) | Police Reform from the Inside (Starts at 27:00) | MLB and the Negro Leagues (Starts at 56:50) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.

Filipinos make up 4 percent of nurses in the U.S. but account for a third of the nurses who have died from COVID-19 nationwide. Tracie Hunte, correspondent for The Experiment — a new series from The Atlantic and WNYC Studios —and Gabrielle Berbey , associate producer for The Experiment, discuss their reporting on how Filipino Americans came to work the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their new episode is called “The Sisterhood.”

Alexis Grenell, co-founder of Pythia Public, a political and public affairs firm, and frequent contributor to the Daily News and columnist for The Nation, talks about the latest news surrounding Governor Andrew Cuomo, including allegations made by a former adviser that she was sexually harassed by the governor.

In December, Major League Baseball announced that the Negro Leagues would be included in MLB's history and statistics. Bob Kendrick, president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, MO, talks about the effort that went into convincing MLB to take that action and its effect on stats and baseball history.

U.S. Representative (D NY-8th, Brooklyn and Queens) and House Democrats chairman Hakeem Jeffries, talks about the latest on the Covid-19 relief bill, and other national issues before Congress.

As part of our series West Farms 10460, we'll be interviewing candidates for City Council District 15. We begin these candidate interviews with Elisa Crespo, education liaison for the office of the Bronx Borough President, Oswald Feliz, tenant lawyer and adjunct professor at Hostos Community College, and Kenny Agosto, district director to New York State Senator Jamaal T. Bailey. Election Day is Tuesday, March 23, 2021, and the early voting period isrc Mah 13, 2021 - March 21, 2021.

Jake Offenhartz, Gothamist/WNYC reporter, reports on how the NYPD's Strategic Response Group - formed as an anti-terror squad -- instead wound up heavily policing protests this past summer. Plus: Gothamist and WNYC filed a public records request years ago with the Bronx DA's office, asking to see an internal database they maintained of NYPD officers with credibility issues -- but the office has never released the information. George Joseph, reporter for WNYC's race & justice unit, talks about Gothamist's and WNYC's lawsuit against the Bronx DA for its failure to comply with the request, and why it's so important that it's made public.

Heather McGhee, chair of Color of Change board of directors, former president of the liberal think tank Demos and the author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (One World, 2021), talks about her new book and how the Biden COVID-19 relief bill would address issues of equity.

Alana Casanova-Burgess, host of La Brega, and reporter and producer for WNYC's On the Media, talks about her new podcast, La Brega: Stories of the Puerto Rican Experience, and explains what "la brega" means to Puerto Ricans, and how it so often defines life on the island. 

With the June primary four months away, Brigid Bergin, the City Hall and politics reporter for WNYC and David Cruz, WNYC/Gothamist news editor, talk about some of the factors shaping the race, including big endorsements and big money.

Lori Gottlieb, psychotherapist, cohost of the Dear Therapists podcast, and the author of Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019), talks about how the role and job of therapist has been affected by the pandemic as therapists call in to share their stories.

Alessandra Biaggi, State Senator representing New York's 34th Senate District, talks about the details of her bill, which would repeal Governor Cuomo's expanded emergency powers, which he was granted last spring at the start of the pandemic. 

U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D NY) talks about the razor-thin Democratic majority in the Senate and what that means for the Biden agenda and New York residents, including on immigration reform, COVID relief and more.

Rosa Brooks, law professor at Georgetown University and founder of Georgetown's Innovative Policing Program and the author of Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City ( Penguin Press, 2021), talks about what she learned after joining the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department as a reserve officer to learn about police reform from inside the profession.

Three of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them. The Ethical Morass of Vaccine Eligibility (First) | White Supremacy After the Trump Presidency (Starts at 21:40) | Coping as a Teen During the Pandemic (Starts at 49:00) If you don't subscribe to the Brian Lehrer Show on iTunes, you can do that here.