Month: July 2020

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Everything Everywhere Daily - The French Scrabble Champion

Nigel Richards is unquestionably the greatest Scrabble player in history. The 52-year-old Kiwi is a five-time world champion, and the only player ever to win more than once. He is a five-time United States Champion and has won more major tournament titles than anyone else. However, all these accolades are probably not his greatest Scrabble accomplishment.

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CBS News Roundup - World News Roundup: 07/30

The US surpasses 150-thousand virus deaths. The House implements a mask mandate. A final farewell for John Lewis. Mission to Mars. CBS News Correspondent Steve Kathan has today's World News Roundup.

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Nice White Parents - 2: ‘I Still Believe in It’

Chana Joffe-Walt searches the New York City Board of Education archives for more information about the School for International Studies, which was originally called I.S. 293.

In the process, she finds a folder of letters written in 1963 by mostly white families in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. They are asking for the board to change the proposed construction of the school to a site where it would be more likely to be racially integrated.

It’s less than a decade after Brown v. Board of Education, amid a growing civil rights movement, and the white parents writing letters are emphatic that they want an integrated school. They get their way and the school site changes — but after that, nothing else goes as planned.

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Bay Curious - Ethnic Studies: Born in the Bay from History’s Biggest Student Strike

Listener Michael Viray wrote in to Bay Curious asking to learn more about the origin story behind ethnic studies: “I’ve heard from one of my professors of ethnic studies at UC Davis that there was actually a revolution in the Bay Area for an ethnic studies field. Is this true? And how did it happen?”

Today on Bay Curious, we’re revisiting the longest student strike in U.S. history. We'll learn about the five-month standoff between students and administrators at San Francisco State, that ultimately led to the first College of Ethnic Studies in the nation.

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Nice White Parents - 1: The Book of Statuses

It’s 2015 and one Brooklyn middle school is about to receive a huge influx of new students.

In this episode, Chana Joffe-Walt, a reporter, follows what happens when the School of International Studies’ 6th grade class swells from 30 mostly Latino, Black and Middle Eastern students, to 103 — an influx almost entirely driven by white families.

Everyone wants “what’s best for the school” but it becomes clear that they don’t share the same vision of what “best” means.

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The NewsWorthy - COVID ‘Red Zones’, Mars Rover Launch & NBA Returns – Thursday, July 30th, 2020

The news to know for Thursday, July 30th, 2020!

What to know today about:

  • red and green zones in the U.S.
  • the deal that has federal agents packing up to leave Portland
  • which presidents will, and won't, be at the funeral of civil rights icon John Lewis
  • what big tech CEOs said under oath this week
  • the return of pro-basketball in "the bubble"
  • who is topping the charts and breaking records

All that and more in just 10 minutes!

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Sources:

‘Red Zone’ Grows to 21 States: NY Times, CBS News, ABC News

New U.S. Death Records: The Hill, Newsweek, Reuters, Johns Hopkins

Federal Agents Leaving Portland: WSJ, NY Times, AP, Reuters, Gov. Brown, DHS Sec. Wolf

Agents go to More Cities: USA Today, Axios, Justice Dept.

Big Tech Hearing: AP, WSJ, Axios, USA Today, Full Hearing

John Lewis Funeral Today: AJC, USA Today, FOX News, NBC News

Mars Rover Launch: Space.com, USA Today, CBS News, Launchpad Live View, NASA Live Coverage

Eid al-Adha Begins: Al Jazeera, CNN, Al Jazeera 2

NBA Returns: AP, CBS Sports, NY Times

Lollapalooza on YouTube: The Verge, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Lollapalooza

Drake Breaks Billboard Record: CNN, Billboard, BBC

Thing to Know Thursday: Furloughs and Layoffs: WSJ, Dictionary

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The Gist - Unmasked and Unhinged

On the Gist, anti-maskers are getting the coronavirus.

In the interview, Dr. Jennifer Mercieca is here to discuss her new book, Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump. She and Mike talk about the origins of Trump’s verbal tactics, and how he’s been able to manipulate information. They also touch on the variety of ways presidents appeal to the people, and Joe Biden’s best route forward in that regard.

In the spiel, making a case for uppercase.

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Podcast production by Daniel Schroeder and Margaret Kelley.

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