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“They enter with a flashlight in one hand and a pistol in the other. And I closed my eyes to be shot.” Rev. Wheeler Parker, Jr. recounts the night his cousin and best friend Emmett Till was kidnapped from their grandparents' house.
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I'm so proud and grateful I had this opportunity to interview the GOAT. Barbara Walters Tells Her Story : NPR
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A new directive by NYC Mayor Eric Adams allows police and first responders to involuntarily hospitalize unhoused people they deem too mentally ill to care for themselves, even if they pose no threat to others. USC Gould School of Law Professor Elyn Saks reflects.
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Professor Elyn Saks has dedicated her career to caring for people with mental illness, focusing on the ethical issues surrounding their treatment. She speaks with about her own struggles with schizophrenia and how best to help others.
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“When you don't have facts, you don't have truth. Without truth, you can't have trust. Without these three, we have no shared reality” — Journalist and Nobel laureate Maria Ressa on social media’s impact on democracy.
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After I wrote a column expressing my disappointment in Dave Chappelle's Saturday Night Live monologue, some fans questioned my blackness. So I took a deeper look at why it is so tough to talk about race, comedy and antisemitism: loom.ly/xXnz8Ik
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After I wrote a column expressing my disappointment in Dave Chappelle's Saturday Night Live monologue, some fans questioned my blackness. So I took a deeper look at why it is so tough to talk about race, comedy and antisemitism:
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In his latest piece for The Atlantic, staff writer examines what America can learn from German efforts to memorialize the Holocaust. Clint shares what he learned with .
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Clint Smith, author of The Atlantic’s cover story “Monuments to the Unthinkable,” explores Germany’s reckoning with its national sins, and wonders what America's understanding of slavery would be if monuments were placed everywhere enslaved people were held, sold, or persecuted.
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“The largest prison in the country exists on the grounds of former plantation land because of a profound failure of our collective memory,” says , author of ’s story “Monuments to the Unthinkable.”
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Pick out the former WH correspondent ...oh wait ....
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Let's get ready to rumble.......!!!
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Elon Musk was “played” by Putin, says Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats -- criticizing the billionaire’s recent involvement in the politics of the Ukraine war. (2/2)
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Elon Musk was “played” by Putin, says Russian journalist Yevgenia Albats -- criticizing the billionaire’s recent involvement in the politics of the Ukraine war. (1/2)
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Journalist Yevgenia Albats, who recently fled Russia fearing for her safety, warns against shortsighted war fatigue in the West as Putin continues to take aim at Ukrainian cities. (1/2)
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“Weapons of Mass Delusion” author says that Marjorie Taylor Greene is “one of the most important people in the Republican Party, like it or not.”
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Does the new GOP leadership even need Donald Trump anymore? Robert Draper, author of “Weapons of Mass Delusion,” weighs in.
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. joins to discuss his new book "Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost its Mind.”
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MY LATEST COLUMNA: He helped thousands of Latino students, including me. Do they remember him? RT, porfas!
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2/2 And NOT on what skills, attributes and resources are helping black people thrive?. Well and have developed a black longevity and well-being index. Fascinating , counterintuitive findings. We tell you about it on tonight
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A few years ago one of our regular guests reacted to some study or other we were reporting on and said "look, just stop studying us!" It took me a minute to catch up to what she was saying and I think it was about: why is the focus so often on what's going WRONG 1/2
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on tonight we will of course get an update on recovery efforts in Florida but we will also starting asking some of the hard questions like: who gets to rebuild and why ? -mm
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You can't unsee what you saw happen to when he seemed to suffer brain injury in two games four days apart. He's out of hospital and feeling better but should he have played? Who's responsible ? We ask &former NFL baller
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Thanks to everyone who wrote and called us here at Weekend to help us out with tonight's special on #MinorityRule. Important to hear from our scholars and journalists and we did ..but we were most excited to hear from YOU. Thanks for letting us hear from you-mm
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Ever say to yourself ..if most Americans want x, why do we get y? If so, you're not alone..we're trying to answer that question with a special hour on tonight. History class for a minute (no quiz!) on how minority rule is baked in but also how it's playing out now-mm
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Did you ever say to yourself ..if a majority of Americans want x, y, or z..why don't we have it? So did one of our colleagues and the result is Sunday's . We dig into how and why the minority seems to rule in the US. scholars and citizens weigh in-hope you'll tune in-mm
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So today on tells us about his latest film #AJazzmanBlues and why it took him two decades to make -mm
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Tribal chief mourns killings of sister and nephew as he works to comfort Saskatchewan's Cree Nation wbur.fm/3Rze81U via
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Honored to have spent time with this giant/mentor/friend who left us too soon today . Rest In Power Bernard Shaw-mm
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When I need a lift these days I often turn to You with me? On tonight we visited with director of the reality show/competition where found some of the dancers for her upcoming tour ! And guess what? Homegirl (she's from NY) just won an #Emmy! mm
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