Some really good news from Georgia: Stacey Abrams is running for governor!
Alongside Raphael Warnock for reelection as senator. Harold Meyerson comments - also, news from Texas and California.
Also: being Black in America, and being Black in France: Gary Younge will talk about Josephine Baker, the Black American dancer who went to Paris in the twenties and later renounced her American citizenship. She was interred at the Pantheon, alongside Voltaire and Rousseau, last week.
Plus: Father Greg Boyle -- the founder of Homebody Industries, the largest gang-intervention, rehabilitation, and reentry program on the planet-- has a new book out now, it’s about “the power of extravagant tenderness” and it’s called “The Whole Language.”
