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Denise Maybank and Alan Yu: New Yorkers for Children
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - May 14, 2024 17:30 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingAt 18 young people age out of foster care, many without additional support. New Yorkers for Children focuses on those 18-26, guiding to a better life. Denise Maybank, Alan Yu and CUNY play important roles, education, financial support - to a better life.
J. Lester Feder: Campaign Aainst Ukraine’s LGBTQ Community
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - April 17, 2024 16:31 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingTo advance his war against Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has politicized and weaponized homophobia using harassment, humiliation, sexual violence against gay POWs. Journalist J. Lester Feder writes about these abuses and severe campaigns against the LGBTQ community and civil society.
Drop Dead City: New York on the Brink
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - March 20, 2024 19:00 - 26 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingOne of the most significant and traumatic developments in New York City's history was the fiscal crisis that erupted in the mid-1970's, and made unforgettable - by the Daily News' headline: "Ford to City: Drop Dead." Co-directors of a documentary of the era, Peter Yost and Michael Rohatyn, discus...
Veselka: the Rainbow on the Corner
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - March 04, 2024 22:04 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 1 rating"Veselka" rainbow in Ukrainian is the name of a beloved restaurant in New York's East Village. Opened in 1954, as a newsstand, its current owners, Tom and his son Jason Birchard, tell us how Veselka evolved into a cornerstone of its community and, has now become a beacon of hope for staff and cus...
Scott Richman: ADL Fights Antisemitism and Bias
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - February 22, 2024 22:52 - 26 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingScott Richman, ADL's Regional Director, discusses the dramatic surge of antisemitism. especially in New York and in New Jersey, following horrific events in Israel, including unprovoked physical attacks and killings at religious institutions, students threatened, bomb scares, and at public demons...
Christina Greer: Your Vote in 2024
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - January 17, 2024 19:49 - 26 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingPolitics! weird politics, a fractured political process, the concern that committed voters may be reconsidering their crucial vote in 2024, court's "chipping away" at the Voting Rights Act effecting civil liberties and American democracy - are issues discussed with Fordham University Professor an...
Samuel Freedman: "Into the Bright Sunshine"
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - December 18, 2023 21:50 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 1 rating"Into the Bright Sunshine," Samuel Freedman's cultural biography of Hubert Humphrey, a "ruthless foe of anti-semitism and champion of civil rights," reminds us of lynchings, racism, segregation and more that existed in this country prior to the 1964 Civil Rights Act and of one of the "true acts o...
80 is the NEW 60
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - November 16, 2023 01:25 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingBarry LePatner commends research, advances in science, medicine, technology that allow 80 year olds to be the NEW 60's and in the United States - almost 90,000 centenarians to celebrate their birthdays. Mr. LePatner highlights the need for exercise and for social relationships - friends, family -...
Jeffrey Toobin, Homegrown and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - September 26, 2023 17:23 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingJeffrey Toobin discusses Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, who in 1995 bombed the Murrah Federal Building, in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, including 19 children. Toobin sites historic events: the government’s assault on Waco, racism, the Assault Weapons Ban as dynamics leading to the heino...
The Life and Legacy of Jim Brown, Part 2/2
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - July 05, 2023 17:22 - 26 minutes - Video ★★★ - 1 ratingIn Part 2, Bob Herbert and guest, Dave Zirin, author of “Jim Brown: Last Man Standing,” sports editor of The Nation, and podcast host focus on Jim Brown’s incredible nine-year career as a fullback with the Cleveland Browns, his long, remarkable career after football and his sometimes troubled life.
The Life and Legacy of Jim Brown, Part 1
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - June 20, 2023 18:44 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingMany agree that Jim Brown was one of the greatest players to ever step onto a field. A lacrosse hall of famer, a star in numerous sports, the reality behind this legendary hero is complicated. In this two-part conversation, Bob Herbert and author, sports editor Dave Zirin, explore the extraordina...
Eric Alterman: Living in a "New" Country?
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - May 23, 2023 19:06 - 26 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingReviewing events: January 7, "hang Pence," book burning, mass shootings, white supremacy, Eric Alterman, distinguished professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College, and Bob Herbert comment that we're living in a "new" country, with a radical and sometimes fascist major party. Naming fo...
Miles Rapoport-100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - May 03, 2023 15:42 - 27 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingMiles Rapoport, co-author with E.J. Dionne of "100% Democracy: The Case for Universal Voting" discusses compulsory voting in Australia where 91.9% of the electorate voted in 2019 compared with the 60.1% turn out in America's presidential election in 2016. Bob Herbert asks - is compulsory voting p...
Sam Roberts: Author, The New Yorkers
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - April 11, 2023 14:25 - 27 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingSam Roberts writes, "people profiled in this book are among the most remarkable and noteworthy New Yorkers you've every heard of." Except, you may never have heard about them except in his book "The New Yorkers." Consider Andrew H. Green, the Father of Greater New York, who, consolidating the fiv...
Linda Villarosa: Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - March 14, 2023 16:07 - 26 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIn her compelling new book, Linda Villarosa notes "African Americans live sicker and die quicker" than other Americans. Educator, journalist and author of "Under the Skin: The Hidden Toll of Racism on American Lives and on the Health of Our Nation," weaves the lives of real people - among them - ...
Getting to the Bottom of Gun Violence with David M. Kennedy
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - February 01, 2023 19:00 - 26 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingBob delves into the motives behind most mass shootings in this country, and the work that is being done to prevent such violence, with guest David M. Kennedy, one of America’s most knowledgeable experts on crime and violence, and violence prevention. He’s a professor of criminal justice at CUNY's...
Prof. Gail Buffalo on 2022 National Education Assessments
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - January 17, 2023 19:24 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingWe are now learning that one of the longest-lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is its impact on education. The latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the nation’s report card, showed that math scores for fourth and eighth graders plunged, and reading sco...
Scott Richman on the Fight Against Antisemitism
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - December 29, 2022 07:14 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingThe Anti-Defamation League began tracking reports of harassment, vandalism and violence against Jews in 1979. The number of reports last year were the highest on record. Joining Bob to talk about all of this, and what can be done about, it is Scott Richman, regional director of the Anti-Defamatio...
Jonathan D. Cohen on America’s Lottery Obsession
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - December 05, 2022 18:04 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingAmericans spend more money on lottery tickets every year than they spend on streaming services, concert tickets, books and movie tickets combined. But what’s the truth about lotteries? Are the odds of winning a Powerball or Mega-Millions jackpot so big that you have basically no chance at all? Do...
Jennifer Weiss-Wolf on Abortion and Democracy
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - November 22, 2022 21:57 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIt’s no secret that abortion rights are under attack across America. Bob talks about this crisis, and what can be done about it, with guest Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, the executive director of the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Network at the NYU School of Law.
James Parrott on NYC’s Economic Challenges
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - November 07, 2022 17:13 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 1 rating“Fiscal crisis” is a term that can send chills through New Yorkers' spines. As the city faces some enormous economic challenges, Bob talks about them, and what the city can do about them, with guest James Parrott, the director of economic and fiscal policies at the New School’s Center for New Yor...
Lynne Weikart on The Mayoralty of Michael Bloomberg
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - October 24, 2022 18:34 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingAfter a period of relative prosperity, declining crime, and a real boost in the city’s spirits, New York is once again struggling. The mayor during most of that prior, more or less benign, period was Michael Bloomberg. Bob takes a look back at his administration – the highs, the lows and the in-b...
Richard Aborn on New Gun Laws for New York
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - October 06, 2022 21:05 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingBob talks with Richard Aborn, a lawyer, and the president of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City. The discussion centers on how a recent Supreme Court ruling, which struck down part of New York’s 109-year-old concealed carry law, is forcing some big changes in NYC, and what that will m...
Kostya Kennedy on the Incomparable Jackie Robinson, Part 2
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - September 27, 2022 17:01 - 24 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingBob is joined once again by veteran sports chronicler, Kostya Kennedy, for part two of their discussion about Kennedy's book “TRUE: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson.” They pick up the story in the mid-1950s, when the lights are already dimming on Robinson’s amazing career.
Kostya Kennedy on the Incomparable Jackie Robinson, Part 1
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - September 09, 2022 18:29 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingAward-winning sports chronicler, Kostya Kennedy, joins Bob Herbert to discuss his new book “TRUE: The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson." TRUE touches on four transformative years of the baseball great and civil rights trailblazer's life. In part 1 of this two part interview, we learn about Jackie ...
Eric Alterman on the State of Our Democracy
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - February 14, 2022 18:01 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingWhat kind of democracy, or more accurately, a democratic republic, are we living in when presidents get elected without winning the popular vote, or when voters favor stronger gun control measures, easier access to legal abortions, and a higher minimum wage, but they have been unable to achieve t...
Erica Atwood on Curbing Gun Violence in Major Cities
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - February 02, 2022 14:03 - 24 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingWith gun violence in America only going up during the pandemic, more than fifteen hundred boys and girls below the age of 18 were killed in homicides, suicides and accidental shootings in 2021. Bob talks with guest Erica Atwood, senior director of Philadelphia’s Office of Policy and Strategic Ini...
David Wallace-Wells on Those Most Impacted by Climate Change
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - January 19, 2022 14:20 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingBob talks with David Wallace-Wells, New York Magazine editor-at-large, about his recent cover story, "The Guilty and the Damned." The piece explains how the countries least responsible for climate change are being impacted the most.
Sam Roberts on the Evolution of Newspaper Reporting
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - January 03, 2022 16:42 - 25 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingBob talks about the good, the bad, and the troubles he’s seen over his half century in the news business with an old friend and colleague – Sam Roberts – once the city editor of the Daily News, where Bob spent 17 years, and now the urban affairs correspondent at The New York Times, where Bob spen...
Commissioner Steven Banks on Homelessness in NYC
CUNY TV's Bob Herbert's Op-Ed.TV - December 21, 2021 15:51 - 24 minutes ★★★ - 1 ratingIf ever a problem seemed intractable, it’s homelessness. After many decades of trying to find solutions, there are still tens of thousands of homeless men, women and children here in New York City. But there are also many dedicated people who work day and night to bring shelter and badly-needed s...
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