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  • Why Americans don’t learn about Tulsa, or Juneteenth
    Michele Norris on what happened in Tulsa — and why Americans don’t learn this history in school. Nicole Ellis on the history of Juneteenth. And Taylor Turner talks about her personal connection to the holiday.
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    Opinion: The diabolical irony of Trump in Tulsa.
    Trump rally in Tulsa, site of a race massacre, on Juneteenth was “almost blasphemous,” historian says.
    What Juneteenth tells us about the value of black life in America.
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    29 min
  • What’s next for the ‘dreamers’?
    Robert Barnes reports on the Supreme Court’s ruling against the Trump administration’s attempt to end DACA. We hear from dreamers about what’s next and why their fight isn’t over. And Marc Fisher on the elderly people becoming radio DJs to connect with one another. 
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    Supreme Court rules against the Trump administration’s attempt to end DACA, a win for undocumented immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.
    Coronavirus isolated them in their rooms. Now, old-age home residents reconnect by spinning Elvis on the radio.
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    27 min
  • The NFL after George Floyd
    Jerry Brewer on the NFL’s moment of reckoning over Black Lives Matter. Amber Phillips on the policing bill unveiled by the Senate GOP. And, Sarah Kaplan on the most famous skyscraper in New York going green. 
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    At the lowest moment of my life, I rediscovered sports’ greatest gift: Hope.
    Senate GOP unveils policing bill that would discourage, but not ban, tactics such as chokeholds and no-knock warrants.
    New York’s most famous skyscraper shrank its planet-warming emissions by 40 percent. Can the rest of the city do the same?
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    31 min
  • How BLM is challenging Big Tech
    Geoffrey Fowler describes the questions Black Lives Matter is raising for Big Tech. Ben Golliver considers the future of professional sports. And Marisa Iati, on how one data scientist is pushing back against faulty coronavirus stats in Florida. 
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    Black Lives Matter could change facial recognition forever – if Big Tech doesn’t stand in the way.
    The NBA has a plan for the playoffs. But players and fans have questions. 
    Florida fired its coronavirus data scientist. Now she’s publishing the statistics on her own.
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    30 min
  • SCOTUS rules in favor of LGBTQ workers
    Robert Barnes walks through the Supreme Court decision that protects gay and transgender people in the workplace. Karla Adam explains why minority and immigrant doctors are feeling the brunt of the coronavirus burden in Britain. And Eugene Scott describes how it feels to be a Black journalist right now. 
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    The Supreme Court has said that gay and transgender workers are protected by federal law, forbidding discrimination on the basis of sex.
    Minority doctors are among the worst hit by the coronavirus in Britain.
    What it’s like to cover the protests – as a Black journalist.
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    26 min
  • Why Hollywood loves cop stories
    Alyssa Rosenberg on 100 years of police in pop culture and why we need to rethink cop stories on TV. And, fashion critic Robin Givhan on the symbolism of clothing on Capitol Hill this week. 
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    Shut down all police movies and TV shows. Now.
    Dragnets, Dirty Harry and dying hard: 100 years of the police in pop culture.
    Congress’s kente-cloth spectacle was a mess of contradictions.
    George Floyd’s brother came to Washington to speak. But his power was in the silences.
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    35 min
  • What it means to ‘defund the police’
    Katie Mettler and Georgetown’s Christy Lopez delve into the movement to “defund the police.” Michael Kranish looks into Joe Biden’s complicated history on criminal justice. And Lenny Bernstein reports on a new hope for patients whose lungs have suffered from covid-19.
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    Defund the police? Here’s what that really means. 
    Joe Biden let police groups write his crime bill. Now, his agenda has changed.
    Surgeons perform the first known lung transplant for a coronavirus patient in the U.S. 
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    34 min
  • Why a vaccine won’t be a silver bullet
    Joel Achenbach tracks the rising coronavirus caseloads in some parts of the country. William Wan explains how the virus could become the next measles or chickenpox. And Ben Guarino talks us through a time-tested method for disease containment. 
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    As the economy reopens, coronavirus transmission remains high in much of the U.S.
    Coronavirus may never go away — even with a vaccine. 
    Reopening the country safely means deploying “disease detectives” — contact tracers — as soon as possible.
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    28 min
  • A funeral, and a call to justice
    George Floyd is laid to rest in Texas. We hear from some of the people who knew him. President Trump and federal law enforcement vs. Washington, D.C. And how a black police officer responded to protests.
    26 min
  • Why police convictions are so rare
    Marissa Lang and Clarence Williams report from Washington, D.C., as protests continue across the country. Georgetown University’s Paul Butler explains why it’s so difficult to prosecute police. And Heather Long looks at why black Americans have been left out of the economic recovery. 
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    Protesters gather on the streets of Washington, D.C., and around the world. 
    Filing charges in George Floyd’s death was the easy part. Now comes the hard part.
    Digging deeper into the latest jobs report — and how black Americans are getting left behind.
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    30 min

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