On Second Thought For Monday, August 1, 2016

Democrats and Republicans gathered at their respective conventions over the past two weeks to nominate their choices for president. Georgia politicians had a front row seat at both conventions. We recap convention highlights with Emory University political science professor Andra Gillespie and the role Georgia played.

Adam Raguesea guest hosts. The show begins with a recap of the RNC and DNC. We're joined by Emory political science professor Andra Gillespie who reflects on the role Georgia played. This conversation continues with the addition of Georgia State political science professor Daniel Franklin who discusses the possibility of Georgia turning into a purple state. Then, investigative journalist Bill Dedman is featured in our latest installment of "Pulitzer Peaches." Also, we hear from an applicant who has decided to "bank black."

Then, despite Bill Clinton's carrying Georgia in 1992, Zell Miller and Roy Barnes holding the the Governor's Mansion for the entire decade and senators Sam Nunn, Max Cleland, and Wyche Fowler Jr. representing the state in D.C., Georgia has been considered a red-majority state since the 1990s, but that may change. There are hundreds of thousands of people of color in Georgia who are not registered to vote. If they showed up on Election Day, they could change the result. We’ll talk about the state of the state’s politics with Emory University political science professor Andra Gillespie and Daniel Franklin, a political science professor at Georgia State University.

Also, 2016 is the centennial year of the Pulitzer Prize. So we’ll spend some time with past winners who are connected to Georgia in a new series called, “Pulitzer Peaches.” We speak with investigative journalist Bill Dedman in the latest installment. Bill wrote a series of articles for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that exposed how banks and other mortgage lenders in Atlanta discriminated against middle-income black neighborhoods. This investigation earned him the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 1989. Plus, a new movement has called for African Americans to move their money to black-owned banks. We hear from one of these applicants and why she decided to #bankblack.