Prologue

Two people see one of President Trump’s first executive orders and get excited, and then get to work. (30 minutes)

A history of the brief mayoral career of Harold Washington and its lessons for Black and white America, as told by people close to him. (39 minutes)Harold Washington died on November 25, 1987.  This show was first broadcast ten years later, in 1997.

The judges walk us through how different their jobs have become in just the past few months, because of sweeping policy changes by Trump’s Department of Justice.

Studs Terkel, the Chicago reporter who recorded oral histories of ordinary Americans, died last week.