Race, gender, tennis, and Serena
The legacy of slavery in sport. AM radio yellers and late night liberal satire. And, after years of training children not to get in cars with strangers: are you willing to do it yourself?
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Kurt Streeter on race in tennis
When the U.S. Open began on August 19th, all eyes were on Serena Williams. She's been a lightning rod her whole career because of her race, class, and gender – some consider her the greatest tennis player of all time. The New York Times’ Kurt Streeter, himself a former tennis player, has been writing about the Williams sisters and how slavery still impacts the way we talk about black athletes in America.
Danna Young, Irony & Outrage
Liberals can’t get mad. Conservatives can’t be funny. Have you heard these tropes? Danna Young studies these ideas at the University of Delaware, and has written them up in a new book Irony & Outrage: The Polarized Landscape of Rage, Fear, and Laughter.
HopSkipDrive
You’re a busy person, right? Work, socializing, maybe schlepping your kids around. Would you outsource some of that driving? Not to a neighborhood carpool – to a rideshare app geared toward kids? It’s called HopSkipDrive. Seattle transportation consultant Paulo Nunes-Ueno spoke with Bill Radke about the pros and cons.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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