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The Daily

The Sunday Read: 'Facing the Wind'

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.4102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 June 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode of The Sunday Read, Carvell Wallace considers why, for his kids, a global pandemic that shut down the world was not news — it was the opposite of news. It was a struggle that had, in some ways, always been a part of their lives. This story was recorded by Audm. To hear more audio stories from publishers like The New York Times, download Audm for iPhone or Android.

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0:00.0

I don't think my kids have read the PC yet.

0:03.7

But they were really excited to be fact-checked

0:08.7

by the New York Times magazine.

0:10.2

They thought that was the coolest thing ever.

0:12.8

My favorite moment of fact-checking was,

0:15.0

I wrote a line in there about how my daughter

0:17.6

sometimes gets in fights with me and then apologizes.

0:21.4

So the fact-checker was like,

0:22.8

do you get in fights with your dad and apologize?

0:24.9

And my daughter said,

0:26.6

I apologize for how I said it.

0:28.9

I don't apologize for what I said,

0:30.8

because I know that what I said is right.

0:35.3

And just to see that exchange

0:38.8

happening in email, I really loved that.

0:45.4

Hey, my name is Carvelle Wallace

0:47.3

and I'm a contributing writer to the New York Times magazine.

0:50.7

And I'm going to be reading my essay called,

0:53.4

Facing the Wind,

0:55.0

Raising Black Teenagers,

0:56.4

I made pandemic and protest.

0:59.2

You know, I was a parenting advice columnist

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