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Thursday April 19, 2001

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10:00Race Relations with the Police

Cincinnati, Ohio is still reeling in the wake of riots that broke out last week after a black man was fatally shot by a white police officer. It was the fifteenth such fatality since 1995. Diane and her guests talk about the deep-seated, persistent problems in interactions between police and black Americans.

Guests

James Fyfe, professor of criminal justice at Temple University, and former lieutenant with the New York City Police Department

Laura Murphy, director of the ACLU Washington legislative office

11:00Pat Barker: "Border Crossing" (Farrar Strauss & Giroux)

Novelist Pat Barker is best known for her Regeneration trilogy, one volume of which won Britain's prestigious Booker Prize. She joins Diane to discuss her latest novel.

Guests

Pat Barker, Author

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