Dorothy Samuels, currently a Senior Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU, calls herself "fortunate" to have been a member of the NY Times editorial board, where she served for more than 30 years, noting the wide array of issues under review.

Ronnie Eldridge, host of "Eldridge & Co." went to Bedford Hills Correctional Facility to interview Judith Clark, an inmate serving 75 years-to-life. Judith Clark will be eligible for parole in 2056. She will be 107 years old. Unedited interview follows

Anthony Maniscalco, Rogowsky Internship Program in Government and Public Affairs, author of "Public Spaces, Marketplaces, and the Constitution" tells us that many public spaces and marketplaces in American cities and suburbs are off limits to free speech.

Investigative reporter Tom Robbins and Ronnie Eldridge discuss the purposes of imprisonment, prison programming and rehabilitation versus retribution. Part 1/2 has an exclusive interview with Judith Clark, serving 75 years to life at Bedford Hills Prison.

Jack Caravanos, professor at the CUNY School of Public Health talks about the public health crisis - not only in Flint, Michigan but in other parts of the country and throughout the world.

City Council Member Laurie A. Cumbo, representing the 35th Council District in Brooklyn, describes her vibrant, economically, racially and culturally diverse district as the "epicenter of Brooklyn."

Dr. Ruth Finkelstein of the Robert N. Butler Columbia Aging Center and Mailman School of Public Health discusses the impact of our aging population on "everything" in our society, noting that there is a whole generation of people who are really old.

Award winning broadcast journalist, author and host of "Black America," Carol Jenkins and show's host Ronnie Eldridge talk politics - the young voter, race - Black Lives Matter movement - and more.

The New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU), headed by Donna Lieberman, is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan organization, promoting and defending basic principles and values: freedom of speech and religion, the right to privacy, and to due process of law.

Helen Rosenthal, NYC Council Member, serving the Upper West Side-District 6, discusses issues of major concern to her community and most New Yorker's: affordable housing. Ms. Rosenthal is enthusiastic about proposed budget reforms, effecting the Council.