Best Of: The Race Card Project / The Early AIDS Crisis

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🗓️ 10 February 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Journalist Michele Norris has spent the last 14 years collecting what she describes as "an archive of the human experience" with The Race Card Project. She wanted to see how Americans really talk and think about race, so she asked people to share their thoughts in six words. Norris adapted the project into a memoir called Our Hidden Conversations.

Also, we'll hear from Kai Wright, host of the WNYC podcast Blindspot: The Plague in the Shadows about the early years of the AIDS epidemic, when so little was known about HIV, and so much was misunderstood.

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0:16.0	From W HYY in Philadelphia, I'm Tanya Mosley with Fresh Air Weekend.
0:22.0	Today, what Americans really think about I'm Tanya Mosley with Fresh Air Weekend.
0:22.8	Today, what Americans really think about race?
0:26.2	Journalist Michelle Norris has spent the last 14 years
0:29.4	collecting what she describes as an archive of the human experience. She wanted to see how
0:34.8	Americans really talk and think about race, so she asked people to share their
0:38.9	thoughts in six words. Here are a few.
0:42.0	Was considered white until after 9-11.
0:47.0	Urban living has made me racist.
0:49.0	I suspect Grandpa was a Jew.
0:52.0	Two black for black Men's Love.
0:54.9	Also, we'll hear from Kywright,
0:57.1	host of the podcast Blind Spot,
0:59.0	The Plague in the Shadows,
1:00.8	about the early years of the AIDS epidemic when so little was known about HIV
1:05.0	and so much misunderstood.
1:07.0	Throughout his career,
1:08.0	Wright has covered the HIV and AIDS crisis
1:11.0	and its impact on communities that are often overlooked.
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