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What's on the radio today: Oct. 23, 2019

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Your radio line-up for Wednesday, Oct. 23.

9 a.m. — MPR News with Kerri Miller

9 - 9:20 a.m. — The Swedes call it flygskam or flying shame. It’s a movement that asks people to curb or even give up flying in order to minimize their carbon footprint. Is it a good idea, or an example of environmental extremism?

9:20 - 10 a.m. — In her new book, “Breathe: A Letter to my Black Sons,” author Imani Perry writes of the challenges and joys of being a black mother to two teenage boys, Issa and Freeman.

Perry writes in the opening pages, “No matter how many say so, my sons, you are not a problem…Mothering you is not a problem. It is a gift. A vast one.” Throughout the letter she raises issues of police brutality and the danger of calling the police with black sons in the house. She also talks about the necessity of teaching her sons how to navigate a world of whiteness and the legacy of the black man.

MPR News host Kerri Miller speaks with Perry about her new book.

10 a.m. — 1A with Joshua Johnson

America's first female Secretary of State says we need to do more than see something & say something. Madeleine Albright says the country should not standby and expect others to do something. In conversation with Joshua Johnson, she says we should challenge all those who offer simple solutions to complex problems.

11 a.m. — MPR News with Angela Davis

College debt is here to stay. How can students limit its effects? And what can they do if it takes over their life? Host Angela Davis will talk about both scenarios.

Noon — MPR News Presents

Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan spoke at the University of Minnesota Monday. She was interviewed at Northrop Auditorium by former U of M Law School dean Robert Stein, as part of the Law School's Stein Lecture series.