Amanpour: Jeanne Shaheen, Scott Ellsworth, Keisha Blain and Nav Bhatia

Amanpour

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4.2 • 929 Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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New Hampshire Senator Jeanne Shaheen is leading a bipartisan mission to Eastern Europe, bringing a message of support for Belarus democracy. She joins Bianna Golodryga, standing in for Christiane Amanpour, to discuss that mission. This week marks 100 years since the Tulsa Massacre when around 300 black people were killed and hundreds of thousands were left homeless; historians Scott Ellsworth and Keisha Blain talk about the disturbing coverup and importance of reparations for survivors. Former U.S. Ambassador to the U.K. Matthew Barzun explains the counter-intuitive thesis behind his new book, "The Power of Giving Away Power” and the power of constellation thinking. Our Hari Sreenivasan talks to Nav Bhatia, the first ever NBA superfan induced into the basketball hall of fame, about uniting people through a shared love of sport. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Amman Four. Here's what's coming up.
0:08.0	To Lukashenko I say, it's time for you to go.
0:14.8	Make room for a democratically elected leader.
0:18.0	Shoulder to shoulder with democracy.
0:20.7	A bipartisan trio of senators travel to Eastern Europe to meet with the exiled
0:25.0	Belarusian opposition leader. The head of the delegation, Senator Jean Shaheen, tells me what they
0:30.9	hope to achieve. Then I I have lived through the massacre every day.
0:36.5	A country may forget this history, but I cannot.
0:39.8	100 years after the Tulsa Massacre, what should be done to heal generations of trauma.
0:46.3	I ask historians Scott Ellsworth and Kisha N Blaine.
0:50.2	Also Matthew Barzoon, the former U.S. Ambassador to the UK, tells me about the power of giving away power.
0:57.5	Plus, this is something which is amazing, it's a miracle, and it is something which no fan can dream of
1:05.0	Hari Sri-Nevasin talks to the first super-fan inducted into basketball's Hall of Fame. The Fame. Welcome to the program, everyone.
1:14.0	Welcome to the program everyone. I'm Bianna Galadriga in New York sitting in for
1:27.2	Christiane Ammanpur. More U.S. sanctions are needed against the Belarus government.
1:32.1	That's according to exiled opposition leader,
1:34.0	Svetlana Tichenovskaya.
1:36.0	This comes after she met with a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators
1:39.0	in Vilnius, Lithuania.
1:41.0	The delegation is in Eastern Europe to send a united message against human
1:45.2	rights violations by President Alexander Lukashenko, who triggered international outrage
1:50.6	with the brazen arrest of dissident journalist Roman Protisevich after his flight was
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