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BrianLehrer.tv: How To Be Black

350 views · Published 8 February 2012 · 56:51 · Indexed 28 October 2026

Channel: CUNY TV · 2012 · People & Blogs

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Baratunde Thurston, Director of Digital at The Onion and author of "How To Be Black" on the complexities of contemporary racial politics. Then, our Planet White House series continues with a look at the environmental, economic, and political issues surrounding pipelines. Guests for that segment include Lara Skinner of the Cornell Global Labor Institute, Tom Miesner of Pipeline Knowledge & Development, and Andrew Nikiforuk, author of Tar Sands: Dirty Oil & the Future of a Continent. Finally, Facebook, Google, and Twitter--are they evil? We take a look with Anthony DeRosa, Social Media Editor of Reuters, Rob Beschizza, Managing Editor of Boing Boing, Wendy Seltzer, a fellow at Yale Law School's Information Society Project, and Gabriel Weinberg of DuckDuckGo.

Taped: 02-06-2012

Brian Lehrer, the popular host of WNYC's Brian Lehrer Show, hosts an hour-long weekly television program on CUNY TV , where web video meets the issues. 


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