As the tech giant approaches its 25-year anniversary, there are questions of just how much more it can possibly grow. Investors are used to stratospheric returns. Is it time to manage expectations? Nested behind the appearance of social discontent in France is an economy that is actually thriving (10:51). And, a tribute to a true man of the woods (19:02).
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Amazon just announced stellar earnings, sending the stock to a 1-year high — But Amazon’s Achilles Heel is your grocery order. Bank of America will stop saying “Recession” because the economy is far from it — But certain parts of the economy can still feel recession-ish. And Starbucks’ biggest growth market is China… which is a tea country — So Starbucks turned into a caffeine missionary, converting anyone from matcha to espresso. Our weekly TBOY quiz: go.tboypod.com $AMZN $SBUX $BAC Want merch, a shoutout, or got TheBestFactYet? Go to: www.tboypod.com Follow The Best One Yet on Instagram, Twitter, and Tiktok: @tboypod And now watch us on Youtube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
When people from prehistory created the first works of art on the walls of caves, they used the colors that they found around them. Almost all of the early cave art is drawn in black or dark red.
As time progressed, humans figured out how to create more colors and they began using them in more and different ways.
However, some colors were very difficult to create and those who could do it became fabulously rich.
Learn more about colors in the ancient world and how early humans developed dyes and paints in this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
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Twentieth-century African American history cannot be told without accounting for the significant influence of Pan-African thought, just as the story of U.S. policy from 1900 to 2000 cannot be told without accounting for fears of an African World. In the early 1900s, Marcus Garvey and his followers perceived the North American mainland, particularly Canada following U.S. authorities' deportation of Garvey to Jamaica, as a forward-operating base from which to liberate the Black masses. After World War II, Vietnam War resisters, Black Panthers, and Caribbean students joined the throngs of cross-border migrants. In time, as urban uprisings proliferated in northern U.S. cities, the prospect of coalitions among the Black Power, Red Power, and Quebecois Power movements inspired U.S. and Canadian intelligence services to collaborate, infiltrate, and sabotage Black organizations across North America. Assassinations of "Black messiahs" further radicalized revolutionaries, rekindling the dream for an African World from Washington, D.C., to Toronto to San Francisco to Antigua to Grenada and back to Africa. Alarmed, Washington's national security elites invoked the Cold War as the reason to counter the triangulation of Black Power in the Atlantic World, funneling arms clandestinely from the United States and Canada to the Caribbean and then to its proxies in southern Africa.
By contending that twentieth-century global Black liberation movements began within the U.S.-Canadian borderlands as cross-border, continental struggles, Cross-Border Cosmopolitans: The Making of a Pan-African North America(University of North Carolina Press, 2023) reveals the revolutionary legacies of the Underground Railroad and America's Great Migration and the hemispheric and transatlantic dimensions of this history.
Wendell Nii Laryea Adjetey is assistant professor of post-Reconstruction U.S. and African Diaspora history at McGill University, where he holds the William Dawson Chair. He also goes by Nii Laryea Osabu I, Oblantai Mantse of Atrekor We.
Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network.
We're talking about a historic and controversial moment in the nation's capital: who turned up for former President Trump's latest court hearing and what Trump had to say afterward.
Also, the American Academy of Pediatrics is weighing in on transition-related care for minors.
And we'll tell you where more extreme heat is headed for the weekend.
Plus, outdoor dining is here to stay in the nation's largest city; singer Lizzo is responding to accusations against her; and today is one of the few days you can get into all national parks for free.
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Former President Trump pleaded not guilty to the four criminal charges against him tied to his actions leading up to January 6th. The next hearing will be on August 28th.
Suspended Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s long-delayed criminal trial is expected to begin early 2024. But before that, he has an upcoming impeachment trial on September 5th.
Also in Texas: A federal lawsuit was filed on Wednesday to stop the state’s ban intended to target drag performances. The suit argues that the law is unconstitutional and threatens the free expression of the state’s residents, including drag performers.
And in headlines: the U.S. government ordered the partial evacuation of embassy personnel in Niger, the line-up for the knockout round of the World Cup has been finalized, and Florida effectively banned AP Psychology as a course for high school credit.
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Texas Tribune: “Righting The Rule Of Law: a three-part series on the Texas Office of the Attorney General and its impact on the federal courts.” – https://tinyurl.com/2arazx9w
Texas Tribune: “Top Texas A&M officials were involved in botched recruiting of journalism professor, who will receive $1 million settlement” – https://tinyurl.com/226x7qo9
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