Harris on Florida Ed Standards, Ukrainian Grain, Remembering Tony Bennett

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🗓️ 22 July 2023

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Vice President Kamala Harris criticizes a new Florida education standard that suggests enslaved people benefitted from slavery. The UN warns that Russian strikes on Ukrainian ports could disrupt the global food supply. NPR's Scott Simon recounts his own conversations with singer Tony Bennett, who died at the age of 96.

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0:00.0	Nice President Harris criticizes Florida education officials for their new social study
0:07.6	standards.
0:08.6	The standards include some dubious conclusions about the legacy of slavery.
0:13.6	I'm Scott Simon.
0:14.8	I'm Aisha Roscoe and this is up first from NPR News.
0:21.1	The UN warns that Russian attacks on Ukrainian ports could spread hunger around the world.
0:26.4	Russia is simply using the black sea as blackmail.
0:30.4	It's playing political games.
0:32.3	It's holding humanity hostage.
0:35.5	That's as the Kremlin refuses to renew a deal on grain exports.
0:40.2	And the world loses the legendary Tony Bennett.
0:43.0	I get to interview you, Scott, about that.
0:45.9	Yes, I got to help Tony write his life story.
0:49.5	Stay with us.
0:50.5	We've got the news you need to start your weekend.
0:56.4	New education standards in Florida are meeting objections from teachers, state legislators
1:05.0	and now the vice president of the United States.
1:08.2	Kamala Harris traveled to Jacksonville to speak before a packed audience yesterday.
1:13.4	Daniel Prior, with member station WA MFE in Orlando, was there, Daniel, thanks for being
1:18.1	with us.
1:19.1	Thanks for having me.
1:20.1	And please tell us about the vice president's speech.
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