WYPR: The Signal Podcast

NAACP Maryland State Conference, USA Games Athletes, Sister Act and David Ignatius


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How local NAACP branches plan to increase voter turnout.  Plus, author David Ignatius on his latest spy thriller, "The Director."

The NAACP has a new president. What direction will the civil rights organization take now? Tom Hall gets a local perspective from the President of the NAACP Maryland State Conference.

Then – More than 150 athletes from Maryland will head to New Jersey for this weekend's Special Olympics USA Games. We talk with a Frederick cyclist and a Taneytown soccer player about training for the big event.

Plus– The nuns in "Sister Act" are singing and dancing across the Hippodrome's stage. Worth seeing? Tom Hall asks our theater critic J. Wynn Rousuck.

And, Sheilah talks with author and Washington Post columnist, David Ignatius, about his latest spy thriller, "The Director."

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