University of California-Davis Professor Jon Entine tried to detail ethic differences in athletic skills 17 years ago with his book, “Taboo.” The work remains controversial nearly two decades after it was published. LSU will field a football squad for its SEC opener Saturday that is 84-percent African-American with a student body with about one in ten black students. Entine will discuss why it remains taboo to recognize one race as more gifted athletically to another.
Dr. Geoffrey Mount Varner, Director of Emergency Medicine at Howard University, discusses his book “Home Alive, 11 Must Rules for Surviving Encounters with the Police.”
Music Critic John Wirt on the return of 70s music to Baton Rouge.
Thursday September 14,2017: Jon Entine, Geoffrey Mount Varner, John Wirt
