Making Sense of The Markets, An African-American Travel Advisory, A Fight to Unionize

Coming up on today’s show:

• This week, more than 6,500 employees at the Nissan plant in Canton, Mississippi, were voting on whether or not to unionize. The plant has a history of misconduct and poor treatment of employees, but workers at the plant appear bitterly divided on how to vote. R.L. Nave, news editor for Mississippi Today, has the details. 

• On Wednesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit 22,000 points for the first time. The surge in the markets is something the president often touts as a mark of success. Why are the markets performing so well when the country continues to face political turmoil? Ben White, POLITICO Pro’s chief economic correspondent and author of the “Morning Money” column, weighs in. 

• Every Friday, Rafer Guzman, film critic for Newsday and The Takeaway, drops by to review the new releases hitting the box office. This weekend, Rafer reviews “The Dark Tower,” a Stephen King movie adaptation, and “Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later,” an eight-part series on Netflix.

• The NAACP has issued its first-ever travel advisory, now for the state of Missouri. The Takeaway looks back at the history of race and safe travel and discrimination, and whether the NAACP’s fears are warranted in the state of Missouri, with Katrina Thompson, an associate professor in history and African American Studies at Saint Louis University. 

• On August 5, 2012, a white supremacist shot and killed six members of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, a suburb of Milwaukee. That night, the congregation’s president, Satwant Singh Kaleka, died. Since then, one of his sons, Pardeep Kaleka, has aimed to curb violence and bigotry in Milwaukee. An educator at an inner-city high school and former police officer, Kaleka co-founded Serve2Unite, a peace-building nonprofit. 

• Kathryn Bigelow’s new film, “Detroit,” focuses on the violent Algiers Motel incident during the Detroit uprising of 1967. Believing a sniper was on the premises, police officers stormed the motel, and ended up killing three boys. Three individuals with three different perspectives weigh in on the film. 

This episode is hosted by Todd Zwillich.