There’s been an endless news cycle of commentary on the Henry Louis Gates affair since the Harvard Professor was arrested in his home and President Obama made the off script remark that the Cambridge police had “acted stupidly.” Both men are now saying it is time to move on and that what happened was a teachable moment. But what, if anything, have we learned?

Bill Fletcher, Jr., Executive Editor of Black Commentator, Ron Kuby a Civil Rights Attorney and the host of Doing Time with Ron Kuby on Air America, Dennis Parker, Director of the Racial Justice Program at the American Civil Liberties Union, and Rev. Irene Monroe, a Ford Fellow and Doctoral Candidate at Harvard Divinity School on race, class, and law enforcement in America. The ACLU has recently published a report on racial profiling that you can find here.

Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and the author of Plunder and Blunder: The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy, on Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s media blitz. Is it more than just PR? Baker also discusses a new CEPR report, The Gains From Right to Rent.

Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
and a professor of History at NYU, has spent the last few days in Honduras and reports on echoes of the 1980s and Latin America’s dirty wars as ousted leader Manuel Zelaya and his supporters camp out near the border in Nicaragua. Grandin says that according to international observer missions there have been at least eight deaths and disappearances and that some victims have shown signs of torture and strangulation. 

Thanks to One Day As a Lion for video in tonight’s show.