The Fight For Reparations Gains Real Momentum
What A Day
What A Day
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🗓️ 14 March 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Americans have considered the idea of reparations for more than a century, but there’s real momentum around the movement to make it happen right now. Multiple states and localities have launched studies into doing it and California has even introduced legislation. We’ll talk to Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning journalist Trymaine Lee whose podcast “Uncounted Millions” looks at ways reparations could reshape the lives of the descendants of formerly enslaved people.
And in headlines: The House overwhelmingly passed a bill to ban TikTok from U.S. app stores unless it splits from its China-based owner, a Georgia judge tossed six charges in Trump’s election interference case, and New Orleans rats are breaking into police headquarters to munch down on confiscated weed.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, March 14th. |
| 0:02.8 | I'm Priyank Ara Bindi. |
| 0:03.8 | And I'm Juanita Tulliver, and this is what a day, |
| 0:05.8 | the Daily News Pod that's worried about baby foxes, |
| 0:08.4 | so we're wearing giant fox masks. |
| 0:10.3 | Just like a Virginia Wildlife Center that posted a viral video yesterday of its staff doing the same thing, |
| 0:15.2 | they are wearing masks so that Fox babies don't imprint on humans, but we are doing it so the babies don't get attached to our updates about |
| 0:23.1 | Trump's many many trials. When I hear imprinting I think about that wolf |
| 0:26.3 | imprinting on that baby in twilight. One of the only nature facts I know. |
| 0:34.4 | On today's show, lawmakers get closer to ripping my cherished Tik-Toc away from me. The House passed the bill to ban the app and it |
| 0:37.9 | now heads to the Senate. Plus, New Orleans police said that rats are |
| 0:41.2 | sneaking into evidence rooms to munch on confiscated pot of all things. |
| 0:46.0 | But first, I'm going to focus on the current political movement for reparations and how we got here. |
| 0:50.3 | The notion of reparations has been an ongoing question in this nation for more than a century, |
| 0:54.8 | but right now multiple states and localities have launched studies and introduced legislation |
| 0:59.2 | to try to make it happen. There seems to be a real possibility of black people finally getting some |
| 1:04.0 | form of restitution. Yes, okay, I'm really glad that you are digging into this |
| 1:07.6 | today. Tell us more. California has been leading the nation when it comes to |
| 1:11.4 | reparations legislation. |
| 1:13.2 | What have they proposed in their bill so far? |
| 1:15.3 | At the end of January, members of California's legislative Black Caucus introduced 14 measures |
| 1:20.1 | that include proposals for restoring property taken during race-based uses of |
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