20th Anniversary of 9/11 Special
09/11/21 • 134 min
Airing LIVE Saturday, September 11th, 8:35-11:00am ET.
Gather with host Brian Lehrer as we listen to parts of the anniversary ceremony and the reading of the names. We’ll talk to guests and each other to mark the 20th anniversary of the attacks of 9/11/2001.
Guests include:
- Nuala McGovern, presenter of OS on the BBC World Service presenter, former executive producer of The Brian Lehrer Show; Beth Fertig, WNYC/Gothamist senior reporter, and Rose Arce, executive producer of Soledad O'Brien Productions; Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate, in 2001 U.S. Senator from New York; Gerald "Jerry" Sanford, retired FDNY firefighter and the author of It Started with a Helmet: A Retired Firefighter's Return to New York City the Day Before 9/11(iUniverse, 2021); Daisy Khan, founder and executive director of Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality (WISE) and the author of Born with Wings: The Spiritual Journey of a Modern Muslim Woman (Random House, 2018), and Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Lewis, senior minister at Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village and author of the forthcoming Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World (Harmony, November 2021).
Join the conversation: (646)435-7281
Airing LIVE Saturday, September 11th, 8:35-11:00am ET.
Gather with host Brian Lehrer as we listen to parts of the anniversary ceremony and the reading of the names. We’ll talk to guests and each other to mark the 20th anniversary of the attacks of 9/11/2001.
Guests include:
- Nuala McGovern, presenter of OS on the BBC World Service presenter, former executive producer of The Brian Lehrer Show; Beth Fertig, WNYC/Gothamist senior reporter, and Rose Arce, executive producer of Soledad O'Brien Productions; Hillary Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate, in 2001 U.S. Senator from New York; Gerald "Jerry" Sanford, retired FDNY firefighter and the author of It Started with a Helmet: A Retired Firefighter's Return to New York City the Day Before 9/11(iUniverse, 2021); Daisy Khan, founder and executive director of Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality (WISE) and the author of Born with Wings: The Spiritual Journey of a Modern Muslim Woman (Random House, 2018), and Rev. Dr. Jacqueline Lewis, senior minister at Middle Collegiate Church in the East Village and author of the forthcoming Fierce Love: A Bold Path to Ferocious Courage and Rule-Breaking Kindness That Can Heal the World (Harmony, November 2021).
Join the conversation: (646)435-7281
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9/11 and the Rise of the NYPD | PART SEVEN: Unity
The days after September 11th are mostly remembered as a time when the country came together, where our grief turned to unity around a common cause. Parts of these memories are tainted by the rosiness of our shared identities. When people face an external threat or collective trauma like 9/11, it can reshape how we view ourselves. Our partisan definitions, such as race and political affiliation, begin to wilt, and our shared identities grow in their place.
Dr. Jay Van Bavel is a social psychologist and neuroscientist at New York University, who studies how humans build groups and the collective concerns that shape our minds, brains, and behaviors. Click "listen" in the player to hear his take on why 9/11 bred unity, while other mass traumas such as the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in heated divisions.
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