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Podcast: This Day (An America 250 History Show)
Episode: No Crime Day (1986) w/ Josh Levin
Description: It’s September 27th. This day in 1986, NBA star Isaiah Thomas promoted “No Crime Day” in the city of Detroit.
Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Slate’s Josh Levin to talk about the effort, how it represented the approach to drugs and violence in the 1980s, and the legacy of Thomas’s initiative.
Josh and his team have a full episode on No Crime Day in the latest season of Slate’s “One Year” podcast.
Be sure to subscribe to Josh’s latest season of One Year wherever you get your podcasts!
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