MLK Day: The Civil Rights Movement's Unfinished Business
Podcast: The Brian Lehrer ShowPublished On: Mon Jan 19 2026
Description: Peniel Joseph, Barbara Jordan Chair in Ethics and Political Values, founding director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of The Third Reconstruction: America's Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century (Basic Books, 2022), talks about what was accomplished, as well as the inequality that remained unaddressed.
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