Black lives in Minnesota

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🗓️ 4 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The killing of African American George Floyd by a white policeman in Minnesota led to both peaceful demonstrations and violence across the United States. Emma Sapong is an African American journalist from Minnesota and reports on the yawning gap between the lives of white Minnesotans and their black counterparts. It's exactly one hundred years since Greater Hungary lost two-thirds of its territory in the Trianon Treaty after the First World War. This loss has left a gaping wound in Hungary, and, together with its violent aftermath, it has been influencing the country to this day, as Nick Thorpe reveals. The coronavirus epidemic has not hit the Democratic Republic of Congo as hard as it has some other countries, due to measures like the closure of borders. But, as Olivia Acland reports, these have disrupted food imports, and have led to more cases of hunger instead. The far-eastern Russian island of Sakhalin was part-Japanese during the Second World War, when the Japanese brought in Korean labourers. After the war, the borders shut, and the Koreans were stuck. For some it's still hard to know where home really is, as Will Atkins has found. In Spain one hotel is preparing for the new tourist season by looking to its past, when it hosted royalty and Hollywood stars. Torremolinos on the Costa del Sol was a quiet, niche destination with a glamour to rival that of St Tropez in the 1960s. Can it ever be like that again, asks Oliver Smith? Presenter: Kate Adie Producer: Arlene Gregorius

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:05.0	Good morning.
0:06.1	Today an anniversary in Central Europe
0:08.8	of the Treaty of Trianon,
0:10.9	a somewhat painful one for Hungary, losing two-thirds of its territory a hundred years ago.
0:17.3	In Central Africa the battle against coronavirus is, as elsewhere, not good for the economy and it's even put a professional smuggler out of
0:26.2	business.
0:27.2	Where's home when people are uprooted by war?
0:31.2	We travel to Russia's Far eastern Sakalin island to meet the Koreans forcibly
0:36.7	deported there during World War II.
0:40.7	First to Minnesota, the cradle of the present protests now spreading right across America.
0:47.4	The outrage sparked by the killing of George Floyd has grown into a massive demonstration about police brutality and racist treatment of
0:56.2	black Americans. In a country which has a massive gap between richest and poorest, there's more than money which separates
1:05.0	white and black lives, says Emma Saapong, African American and a journalist in
1:10.8	Minnesota. Minnesota consistently ranks near the top of the US standard of living charts.
1:18.0	It enjoys rates of home ownership and educational attainment unseen in most of the country.
1:24.4	The Twin Cities, Minneapolis, and St. Paul, boasts one of the highest concentrations of
1:29.2	successful American companies and they help fuel a median income that's almost 15,000
1:35.4	pounds above the national average. If that's not enough, Minnesota even snagged the
1:41.7	title as the country's third happiest state in a national poll.
1:45.3	Many Minnesotans, it appears, are living the American dream.
1:49.9	But that's only if they are white.
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