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Sandra Bland Laid to Rest; First Black Judge in Waller County Demands Sheriff Resign over Her Death

Sandra Bland Laid to Rest; First Black Judge in Waller County Demands Sheriff Resign over Her Death; StoryCorps Remembers Horrific “Traffic Stop” and Police Beating That Nearly Killed Alex Landau; “Collective Healing” at Nat’l Black Lives Matter Convergence Ends with Police Pepper-Spraying Teen; Obama Visits Ethiopia and Kenya, Land of His Father, to Discuss Counterterrorism, … Continued


Sandra Bland Laid to Rest; First Black Judge in Waller County Demands Sheriff Resign over Her Death; StoryCorps Remembers Horrific “Traffic Stop” and Police Beating That Nearly Killed Alex Landau; “Collective Healing” at Nat’l Black Lives Matter Convergence Ends with Police Pepper-Spraying Teen; Obama Visits Ethiopia and Kenya, Land of His Father, to Discuss Counterterrorism, … Continued


We’re joined in studio by Barney Frank, former Democratic Congressman from Massachusetts. Barney Frank was the first openly gay man to serve in the US Congress and chaired the House Financial Services Committee from 2007 to 2011. His new autobiography, Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex Marriage, was published this … Continued