Nov 9 2008

Broadcast Date: 
Nov 9 2008

A conversation with journalist Bob Moser and scholar Manning Marable about the road to the Obama victory and its historical significance; plus the chance for climate change legislation in the post-election world.

Episode segments
  • The Obama Victory!!
    National Politics, Electoral

    Manning Marable is Professor of Public Affairs, Political Science, History and African-American Studies at Columbia University. He is one of America's most influential and widely read scholars. His biography of Malcom X, A Life of Reinvention, is due out in 2009 from Viking Press. Dr. Marable is the Director of the Malcom X Project at Columbia University.

    Bob Moser is the editor of The Texas Observer, a contributing writer for The Nation, and the author of Blue Dixie: Awakening the South's Democratic Majority.
    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    We talk with scholar of African-American History, Manning Marable, and journalist Bob Moser about the political realignments that changed the electoral map of the U.S. and brought Barack Hussin Obama to victory.

  • Climate Change in a Post-Election World
    National Politics, International Politics, Domestic Policy

    Paul Reale is one of the vounteers trained by Al Gore for The Climate Project to present the slide show that was the centerpiece of An Inconvenient Truth.

    Esther Kaplan and Marilyn Kleinberg Neimark

    We discuss the outlook for meaningful climate change activism and legislation in the wake of the election with climate change expert and presenter, Paul Reale.