Date Posted: September 4, 2009

In this week's installment of the Barbershop, guest host Allison Keyes talks with freelance writer Jimi Izrael, civil rights attorney and editor Arsalan Iftikhar; NPR's political editor Ken Rudin and social commentator Marc Lamont, a social commentator and professor at Columbia University. They discuss President Obama's upcoming address to a Joint Session of Congress and his sliding approval rating, a Yale University study on Unmarried Black Women, pop singer Chris Brown's appearance on Larry King Live and former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's possible return to the political scene.

Listen to audio at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112550630