Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

“I had successfully completed parole, started a family, began a business, was working hard, and was one week away from completing a Master’s Degree in Social Work – at the top of my class in CUNY Lehman College – when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) came to my home to detain me,” wrote Khalil Cumberbatch, associate vice president of policy at the David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy at The Fortune Society in an open letter to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio published on his organization’s website back in January. In this installment of "Leonard Lopate at Large," Khalil shares his harrowing story and tells Leonard about the work he does at The Fortune Society to help out other immigrants in a similar position to where he was just a few years ago.

“I had successfully completed parole, started a family, began a business, was working hard, and was one week away from completing a Master’s Degree in Social Work – at the top of my class in CUNY Lehman College – when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) came to my home to detain me,” wrote Khalil Cumberbatch, associate vice president of policy at the David Rothenberg Center for Public Policy at The Fortune Society in an open letter to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio published on his organization’s website back in January. In this installment of "Leonard Lopate at Large," Khalil shares his harrowing story and tells Leonard about the work he does at The Fortune Society to help out other immigrants in a similar position to where he was just a few years ago.

“In 1999, Edwin Frank founded New York Review Books to reintroduce out-of-print works—many in first translations from around the world—to the reading public. In the last seventeen years, you’ve likely picked up a New York Review Book—maybe because you were taken with its arresting design, or because you recognized a work you didn’t know by a major author: Walt Whitman’s unexpurgated Drum-Taps, say, or unpublished stories by Chekhov, or new versions of Aeschylus and Balzac, Dante and Euripides, or essay collections by Sartre, Lionel Trilling, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm. Since its inception, the series has won dozens of awards for its translations; the New York Times chose Magda Szabó’s The Door as one of the ten best books of 2015. New York Review Books have met not just with critical plaudits but commercial success, which naturally leads the curious reader to wonder: Who is Edwin Frank, anyway?” - Susannah Hunnewell, The Paris Review. Find out exactly who Edwin Frank is and what goes into his process of reissuing books in this installment of "Leonard Lopate at Large"

“In 1999, Edwin Frank founded New York Review Books to reintroduce out-of-print works—many in first translations from around the world—to the reading public. In the last seventeen years, you’ve likely picked up a New York Review Book—maybe because you were taken with its arresting design, or because you recognized a work you didn’t know by a major author: Walt Whitman’s unexpurgated Drum-Taps, say, or unpublished stories by Chekhov, or new versions of Aeschylus and Balzac, Dante and Euripides, or essay collections by Sartre, Lionel Trilling, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm. Since its inception, the series has won dozens of awards for its translations; the New York Times chose Magda Szabó’s The Door as one of the ten best books of 2015. New York Review Books have met not just with critical plaudits but commercial success, which naturally leads the curious reader to wonder: Who is Edwin Frank, anyway?” - Susannah Hunnewell, The Paris Review. Find out exactly who Edwin Frank is and what goes into his process of reissuing books in this installment of "Leonard Lopate at Large"

When Aretha Franklin died on August 16, 2018 at the age of 76, she left behind a body of work that will stand the test of time as some of the greatest music ever recorded. Yet, many fans of her seminal Atlantic Records-era work may be unaware of the transcendent early recordings she made as a gospel artist. In this installment of "Leonard Lopate at Large" on WBAI, Leonard presents his own personal tribute to Ms. Franklin and the Detroit musical environment that she grew up in.

When Aretha Franklin died on August 16, 2018 at the age of 76, she left behind a body of work that will stand the test of time as some of the greatest music ever recorded. Yet, many fans of her seminal Atlantic Records-era work may be unaware of the transcendent early recordings she made as a gospel artist. In this installment of "Leonard Lopate at Large" on WBAI, Leonard presents his own personal tribute to Ms. Franklin and the Detroit musical environment that she grew up in.

Louis Hyman is a historian of work and business at the ILR School of Cornell University, where he also directs the Institute for Workplace Studies in New York City. He is a founding editor of the Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism book series from Columbia University Press. On today’s “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI, Louis joins Leonard for an in-depth discussion of economics.

Louis Hyman is a historian of work and business at the ILR School of Cornell University, where he also directs the Institute for Workplace Studies in New York City. He is a founding editor of the Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism book series from Columbia University Press. On today’s “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI, Louis joins Leonard for an in-depth discussion of economics.

Arthur Schwartz was the restaurant critic and executive food editor of the New York Daily News for 18 years. Having found success with his seemingly unending wealth of food knowledge in radio, print media, cookbook publishing, TV and teaching, he is perhaps best known for is as a chameleon. On Friday’s show, join Arthur and Leonard for a freewheeling discussion on all things food-related.

Arthur Schwartz was the restaurant critic and executive food editor of the New York Daily News for 18 years. Having found success with his seemingly unending wealth of food knowledge in radio, print media, cookbook publishing, TV and teaching, he is perhaps best known for is as a chameleon. On Friday’s show, join Arthur and Leonard for a freewheeling discussion on all things food-related.