After Harvey Weinstein, Women Everywhere Say #MeToo

Coming up on today’s show:

• As the Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment and abuse scandal continues to unfold, Bonnie Bertram, a producer for the Retro Report documentary team, looks back at the history of sexual harassment in the workplace, and how it has been handled by the public.

• On Saturday, a double truck bombing in the Somali capital of Mogadishu killed more than 300 people and injured hundreds of others. We get the latest on the attack, and aid efforts to the region, from Kevin Sieff, African bureau chief for The Washington Post, and Peter Pham, vice president of the Atlantic Council and co-author of “Somalia: Fixing Africa’s Most Failed State.“

• Despite rolling back protections for transgender individuals at the federal level, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has sent a hate crimes lawyer to Iowa to help investigate the murder of a trans high school student. Beverly Tillery,executive director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project, joins The Takeaway to discuss the DOJs approach to LGBTQ protections under the Trump Administration. 

• Today, The Takeaway looks at the fight for Kirkuk between Kurdish and Iraqi forces, and what it means for the future of Iraq, with Emma Sky. She oversaw Kirkuk as governor coordinator for the Coalition Provisional Authority from 2003-2004. She was also adviser to the commanding general of U.S. forces in Iraq from 2007-2010, and is the author of “The Unravelling: High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq.” 

• This week’s Case in Point delves into issues of judicial misconduct, jury misconduct, police misconduct and prosecutorial misconduct — all factors that helped determine the fate of one African American man in Louisiana, Rogers Lacaze. Blythe Taplin, senior attorney at the Capital Appeals Project and co-counsel on Lacaze’s case, and Andrew Cohen, senior editor at The Marshall Project, explain. 

• Mehrsa Baradaran, an associate professor of law at the University of Georgia and author of “The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap,” explains how the structural failings of capitalism relate to and exacerbate the racial wealth gap.

This episode is hosted by Todd Zwillich.