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Post Reports

A crumbling bridge and restorative justice

Post Reports

The Washington Post

Daily News, Politics, News

4.45.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Robert Samuels on the opportunity black activists see in a city’s crumbling highway section. And DeNeen L. Brown tells the surprising story of how Martin Luther King Jr. got his name.

Transcript

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I'm Sarah Kaplan and I'm a science reporter at The Washington Post.

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Sometimes it's literally both things.

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But I think that it helps us understand our place in the universe.

0:13.6

It broadens our sense of wonder.

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It expands our curiosity.

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And those are qualities that you carry with you into the rest of your day.

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From the newsroom of The Washington Post.

0:36.3

Hello, hey, you're here.

0:37.4

I'm Sarah Kaplan and I'm a Washington Post.

0:39.4

Washington Post is Wesley.

0:41.2

Glory, Arightani, over at The Post.

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I'm, this is Post Reports.

0:45.5

I'm Martine Powers.

0:49.2

It's Monday, January 20th.

0:51.2

Today, the impact of redlining in Syracuse and how it's still being felt today.

1:00.0

And how Martin Luther King Jr. got his name.

1:03.3

If you took a map from 1937 of where the redline communities were,

1:12.6

which were where black families were forced to live and could not live anywhere else.

1:20.5

When you placed a map of today's Syracuse on top of it,

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