Previously on Urban Focus
Bill Thompson
William Thompson, the New York City Comptroller and Democratic candidate for mayor, discusses the mayoral campaign on Urban Focus, the weekly radio program broadcast in conjunction with the DuBois Bunche Center for Public Policy at Medgar Evers College. Mr. Thompson talks about recent comments by former Rudolph Giuliani in support of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg as stoking “the politics of fear.”
Josh Barker
The program also includes an interview with Joyce Purnick, the veteran New York journalist, on her recent book “Mike Bloomberg: Money Power Politics.” Ms. Purnick is a former editor and columnist with The New York Times.
Joyce Purnick
Also, Cyril Josh Barker, a reporter with the Amsterdam News, offers his views on the mayoral campaign and how – and whether – it is resonating with average New Yorkers.
Jonathan Hicks, a senior fellow at DBC and former political reporter with The New York Times.
Listen to the Oct. 21 show of Urban Focus here:
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Urban Focus is broadcast nation-wide via the Internet every Wednesday from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. at http://streaming.intacs.com/clients/medgarevers. In Brooklyn, the program will be aired on BCAT TV on Channel 70 (Cablevision), Channel 56 (Time Warner), Channel 44 (Verizon ) and Channel 84 (RCN). Urban Focus will be broadcast every Wednesday from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. and programs will be archived here on the DuBois Bunche Center’s website.
Through interviews with politicians, policy makers, industry practitioners, scholars and expert analysts, Urban Focus will explore a range of issues that affect underserved communities and communities of color from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to Cape Town, South Africa. The discussions will serve to both draw attention to problems and highlight solutions for issues of concern to these communities.
