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Today, Explained

Party in the USA?

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

How do you talk about colonialism and slavery at a birthday party? New York City is trying to tackle that question this year as it turns 400, and the US will soon have to do the same for its 250th. This episode was produced by Peter Balonon-Rosen and Haleema Shah, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noam Hassenfeld. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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New York City just turned 400 years old, but the city isn't doing too much to celebrate.

0:06.7

I wanted to mark the occasion, so I went down to the southern tip of Manhattan to find this

0:11.2

monument which commemorates the first Dutch settlers that came

0:14.6

here back in 1624.

0:17.2

And it's not here.

0:21.1

There's a huge construction project happening.

0:23.0

Either the monument is gone or it is under what looks like a nondescript wooden shack.

0:32.0

If New York is struggling this much to celebrate its birthday,

0:37.0

what does that mean for America?

0:40.0

America is turning 250 in 2026 and it's already shaping up to be a battle.

0:46.0

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