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🗓️ 19 November 2024
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0:00.0 | You're listening to the free, ad-sponsored re-release of American Elections Wicked Game, |
0:05.0 | a weekly march through every presidential election from 1789 to 2024. |
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0:37.2 | It's February 1983 in Washington, D.C. |
0:40.5 | Inside her college dorm room, Howard University freshman Gwendolyn Whitfield lies on her bed, |
0:46.3 | listening to music and leafing through her economics textbook. |
0:50.1 | Since arriving in D.C. from Detroit, Gwendolyn has struggled a bit on campus. |
0:59.0 | She's tried to get involved in some political activism, but Howard is so full of passionate, |
1:03.2 | outspoken, and articulate students, it can feel a bit intimidating at times. |
1:07.5 | Gwendolyn has found it hard to keep up, so she typically keeps to herself. |
1:12.1 | Which is why she groans when her roommate, a confident bright girl from Oakland, |
1:13.2 | pokes her head in the door. |
1:14.6 | Gwen, what are you doing? |
1:15.4 | We're going to be late. |
1:17.1 | Late for what? |
1:18.3 | For the sit-in. |
1:19.8 | We're occupying the A-building. |
1:20.7 | Why? |
1:21.9 | What do you mean why? |
1:23.3 | Have you been living under a rock? |
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