Hey everybody, Maddie Safaya and Emily Quang here.

Like you, we've been following the protests happening all over the world right now, maybe

happening in the community where you live.

And as we've talked about on this show, discrimination and anti-black racism is persistent in the

sciences too.

And it's something we will continue to talk about here on Shorewave.

So for the next few episodes, we'll be having conversations with black scientists and academics

about their research, experiences, and how they're processing both the protests and the

pandemic and what needs to be done to make science truly inclusive.

Okay, here's the show.

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It was Memorial Day and Christian Cooper was doing what he had done so many times before

in Central Park.

He was in a wooded area where dogs are required to be unleashes.

Amy Cooper, a white woman and her dog who was not leashed, came through.

Christian, who is black, asked her to put the dog on a leash.

And that's when the woman called 911.

Christian started recording with his phone.

She insisted that he stop and started telling the dispatcher that, quote, there's an

African-American man threatening my life.

To be clear, Christian Cooper was not threatening her life.

He was asking her to leash her dog as park policy required.

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