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Today, Explained

The backlash to America’s racial reckoning

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The murder of George Floyd and the protests that followed looked like a turning point in the fight against systemic racism. Except, as Vox’s Fabiola Cineas explains, it wasn’t. This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by David Herman and Andrea Kristinsdottir, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. 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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0:00.0

Vox is turning 10.

0:02.0

And in typical Vox fashion, we're celebrating by explaining stuff.

0:10.0

But not the regular stuff.

0:12.0

We're marking a decade of explaining the news. But not the regular stuff.

0:12.7

We're marking a decade of explaining the news by looking back at a decade of turning points,

0:18.4

moments that changed everything or at least felt like they were gonna.

0:23.2

On today explained, we're gonna talk about George Floyd.

0:26.2

So, shout out to his family.

0:29.5

And so after all that happened,

0:30.8

2020 was supposed to be this major turning point for progress because of course people would see such a gruesome murder and say, we have to change.

0:39.2

But instead of that happening, it turned out to be a period of backlash instead.

0:47.0

The political and cultural backlash to America's racial reckoning coming up on the show.

0:53.0

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