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Podcast: Indy Audio
Episode: The Indypendent Midterm Election Night Special on WBAI // 08 Nov. '22
Description: Over the past couple of years, The Indypendent News Hour has become the premiere news and public affairs show on WBAI, a listen-sponsored community radio station whose signal beams 90 miles in all directions from atop a Midtown skyscraper. On Nov. 8 2022, we expanded our normal one-hour news show into a five-hour election night special.
We not only keep track of key races in New York and nationally but provide a deeper analysis of the issues that have animated the midterms — crime, inflation, abortion rights, the threat to democracy — and ones that haven’t been discussed nearly enough: the racist backlash to Black...