Philadelphia I m Terry Gross with fresh air next Monday marks the 50th anniversary of Loving versus Virginia the Supreme Court decision that overturned state laws prohibiting interracial marriage today we re talking about that landmark case it s the subject of her new book also talk about her childhood in Huntsville Alabama her father founded the National Democratic Party of Alabama as an alternative to the Democratic Party of segregationist George Wallace both of her parents were civil rights activists we integrated the school we went to we integrated a neighborhood the family paid a price for its activism within a week of us moving in someone shot a bullet through the front window and we left the bullet hole there and it was a matter of pride we left you know put our finger on it. There 1st news live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Jim Kane thousands gathered for a solemn vigil at London Bridge tonight just 2 nights after 7 people died there in a terrorist attack London s mayor S
Point 3 North Highland Sacramento Good evening it s 7 o clock. This is a civil war and the dish an untruth of politics and common I mean. The . President trumps secret plan to defeat ISIS Professor David makes it has an idea that s worked in other civil wars and even worked before in Iraq this alarming people watching in reintegrating rebel fighters into the government s army in effect he drained the support base and soldiers are usually not going to persuade Eisel to put down their guns but you can win their soldiers away from them that s the role the u.s. Can play as the president expands the u.s. Role in Syria Yemen can extend and Iraq David Mason on how and why so send Deborah Amos on Syria and that court and read on the American civil it s truth politics and power. After the news. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Jenny Herb s homeland security secretary John Kelly says he doesn t know if reports that President Trump s son in law Jared Kushner asked for a back channel commu
News this hour from townhall dot com I m Bob Agnew we had Washington officials expect more than 1000000 Virginians to get away over the Memorial Day weekend and many living that close to the nation s capital may wind up at Arlington National Cemetery Army Specialist Jeremy Solomon among those placing flags on the many military graves as Americans from around the country show up to honor those who lay down their lives in the nation s service to come out here door. Memorial Day weekend and being able to pull flags on you know whom or is headstones is just an honor because you know a lot of these people out here majority of them have given a lot of this ultimate sacrifice one way or another and is definitely an honor and truly something that I love doing despite reports of gasoline prices going to be the highest they ve been in more than a decade a study by AAA predicts that 39300000 people will hit the road you ll have a lot of company out there according to AAA spokeswoman for that co
Welcome back 2 perspectives on Talk of the town with attorney and former political science professor Douglas hold. On Douglas Holbrook in we re back on perspectives today we have the pleasure of speaking with Betsy. Right or do you want your middle name you ve actually got you to introduce yourself Betsy Leander right Ok Leander I knew I was going to struggle on that that s you the author of a most recent book published this year called the missing class but that s not your 1st book your 1st book you put out in 2005. Called Class Matters I guess my 1st question to you is are those 2 books complement one another just one supercede the other in my my real quick answer all 3 of these one time. The year 2005 book took a more the anecdotal approach are might consider it intuitive This book seems to be on the same topic but it s a different approach it s more scientific an empirical do you do you reach the same conclusions I give you a whole bunch of things Yeah great question yes said the