Experiment with offflabel use of ent drugs in hope of combating covid19. We havent had a situation like this. People are used to saying ive got this disease, where is the drug . Evyone is starting to learn a little bit more about what Drug Discovery is like. Judy l that and more tonight. Major funding forws the pbs nehour has been provided by Consumer Cellular. Johnson johnson. Financial Services Firm raymond james. Supporting social tentrepreneurs andir solutions to the worlds most pressing problems. Committed to improving lives through invention in the u. S. And developing countries. Supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. More information at macfoun d. Org. And with t ongoing support of these institutions. Mthis program we possible by the corporation for public abroadcasti by contributions from viewers like you. Thank you. Judy the u. S. Death from th covid19 pandemic has now topped 127,000 people the epicenter has shifted to the west and the south, where cases haveo balloonedcord highs. Alifornias Covid Response was ce called a miracle for quickly stemming virus spread, buthe state today took steps to move back into lockdown after new cases spiked almost 80 in the last two weeks. Bottom line is the spread of this virusaontinues a rate that is particularly concerning. Fourth of july weekend has raised a lot of concern from our health officials. We want to again remind each and every one of you that ifto we wt e independent from covid19, we have to be much more gilant. California is not alone. A majority of states in the country are now reporting surges and infections. Yesterday, the u. S. Reported 47,000 new cases, the highest single day spiked for the nation in the pandemic so far. To slow virus spread, 14 states are moving to pause or reverse plans to open their economies. But the majority of states are still moving ahead on lifting restrictions despite the rise and infections. Only 17 states and the district of columbia have issued mask mandates. And texas is not one of them. Lieutenant governor dan patrick said last night that he doesnt need any advice from dr. Anthon pyeongchan fauci, the nations top infeious disease expert. He said he is concerned about ppstates like texas that s over things. He doesnt know what hes talking about. Texas is reversing reopening steps. Hospitals here are already bracing for the weeks ahead. The hospitals are operating with nearly 100 of intensive care unit beds occupied at several hospitals. If the community doesnt start behaving differently, there was goinbe a limit to what hospitals can handle. That is three weeks from now. In phoenix, Vice President mike pence met with governor doug ducey as arizona struggles to contain its spike. I know we will get through this. Absolutely confident. With your leadership, with the full support of the federal govement behind you, the cooperation of people of arizona, we will slow the spread and we will flatten the cur. Meanwhile in washington, the senate last nighand the house day approved a five week extension on the paycheck extensn program for Small Businesses struggling to stay open sith theps and starts of state plans. Business owners are left struggling to keep up with shifting plans, like texas rent reversal. It added a lot of complexity and stress tomall Business Owners like me. We were hoping it would turn around by may. Now that everything is going in the wrong direction, it does wet look like re going to be over this anytime soon. Plans on hold across the country as states scramble to stifle another swell of covid19 infections. We will return to Judy Woodruff and the rest of the program after the latest headlines. Police in hong kong begin making security law imposed by mainland china. Thousands of protesters took to the streets in the semi autonomous territory after the tuesday. Went into effect more on the contentious new law after the news summary in seattle today, police cleared protesters from a socalled Occupied Zone nearowntown. Violence had flared there in recent weeks. Two teenagers were killed and six others were wounded in separate shootings. Officers in riot gear moved in on theam eent after the mayor issued an executive order for police to begin clearing the streets. They arrested more than 20 people. O job is to protect and serve the community. Our job is to support peaceful demonstrations. But what has happened here on the streets over the last two weeks, few weeks that is is lot less a it is brutal and bottom line it is simply unacceptab. The demonstratisps were in se to the Police Killing of george floyd in minneapolis in may. Lawmakers in new york city have agreed to shift 1 billion in Police Funding to education and social service programs. Advocas argue those cuts dont go far enough in protesters camped outside city hall for the ninth day in a row. New york city mayor bill de blasio defended the action. This is a huge reinvestment in communities while we still stay safe as a city. Im very comfortable we struck the right balance. Again, what im saying represents im certain the majority of new yorkers who want this to be a safe city, they want more fairness, they want more reform,ut they also want to make sure we consistently stay safe. Department is also preparing for cuts. E city Council Voted to cut 150 million from the department budget. The move ces a day after the los angeles board of education approved a 35 cut to a School Police force. Richmond, vginias mayor ordered the removal of all confederate statues on city property. Crews and the former capital of the confederacy began by taking stonewall jackson. Ing general meanwhile, two republican senators, ron johnson of wisconsin and James Lankford of oklahoma, filed an amendment to replace columbus day with juneteenth as linew federal y. The results from yesatrdays elections are in. Former colorado democratic Governor John Hickenlooper willi face repn Senator Cory Gardner in november after winning his primary tuesday night. In western colorado, five term republican congressman scott tipton lost in his primary to rrightusinesswoman lauren bogert. In oklahoma, voters narrowly approved expanding medicaid in the state. The Trump Administration pushein back today a accusations the president neglected reports offoussian bounties killing u. S. Troops in afghanistan. Mr. Trump dismissed those intelligence reports as for canoes. Secretary of statete insthe situation was handled incredibly well to safeguard troops. We see threats and intelligence reporting to our thldiers stationed all ove world every single day. Every single day. The fact that the russians are engaged in afghanistan ins a wy thatverse to the United States is nothing new. Nationasecurity advisor Robert Obrien told fox news a top cia officl decided not to verbally brief the president on the matter since the telligence was unverified, but he said Response Options were nformationn case the was corroborated. Still to come, russians vote to change their constitution to allow Vladimir Putin to extend his presidency. The American Academy of pediatrics calls for students to be back in e classroom this fall. Protesters face arrests in hong kong as a controversial security law goes into effect. And much more. This is the pbs newshour from wetadi s in washington and in the west from Arizona State university. Judy the polls closed in russia after seven days of voting on constitutional changes. One would allow president putin to stand for two more terms in office. Early indications were that 70 plus voted in favor. Our special correspondent reports that russias preeminent leader for two decades maye around for years to come. It is a vote in russias future and the higher the itrnout, the more credibl will look. Some good old electioneering, each ballot paper comes with a Lottery Ticket with prizes from cash to cars. The biggest winner will likely be president Vladimir Putin for a chance to rule into his 80s. Many of his supporters dont need incentives. He is the best president of all the president s. Pressure will survive even though many people dislik him, i think hes right and our country is flourishing. Voters like this one have spent most of lheir adues under his leadership she was 30 when he came to pow inhe year 2000, but she also remembers what came before in the 1990s when russias economy collapsed. She credits putin with its recovery. People live well now the standard of living has increased. Each family has two cars. That is an indicator that he was able to do it. I saw how it was transformed in sochi. Work is underway, you cant deny it. The campaign for the co played in national pride. He said the changes would reinforce russian values. We are not just voting for clendment clothed ir legal rules. We vote for the country in whice ant to live with modern education and health care with reliable socialcirotection of zens, with effective power accountable to society. One amendment would outlaw samesex marriage. The Campaign Video was about parents. Others woulduarantee the minimum wage and pensions. Criminal immunity for life. Tin and yet with all that, there has about the ant that couldion extend his time in office. Changes all come as a single ckage. There is just one question. Yes or no . This National Vote takes in hundreds of amendments to tit russian conion. Critics say it is designed to minimi the focus on putins power and executedtn a way t gives them almost no chance to argue. Raies and protests are banned because of the pandemic and campgners say russian state media does not give them a fair hearing. We are not allowed to express our position to those against this vote. Everything that is happeni is an absolutely strange, cedure tmate p recognize results that are simply impossible. But russia alshas a troubl history with outright fraud and baot stuffing. Election monitors say they witnessed multiple violations. Officials took the unprecedented hours before pollsd,arly results something which would usually be banned. Putin has been involved in messy military interventions in chechnya, grgia, ukraine, and syria, and suffered under economic slipped in the last year, but remain high. So far, he has played coy and has yetay tohether he will stand for another term in office, even if he is allowed to. It is necessary to preserve this possibility in order to prevent elites from looking around in search of a successor. So what he was basically trying to say is that he cant afford to be a lameduck because it is dangerous because he is surrounded by people he cant trust. But not everyone who remembers the 1990s is voting mer thements. One let a libal opposition partydnd he sai just as russia had its first chance that democracy, Vladimir Putin let it in a different direction. I understood that those mistakes and crimes were committed then, would inevitably lead russia to an authoritarian regime a so it happened. Unfortunately, we foresaw this. We understood that at the beginning of the century. For an older generation of voters, this is about whether e relative stability gained in putins russia has been worth it. S if the amendmee passed, the children may live most of their lives knowing nothin else. For the pbs newshour, im lucy taylor in moscow. Judy mlions of American Children and their parents are desperate to know what the fall might look like for schoo there is an argument that kids need to be in the classroom. Thats right. The American Academy of pediatrics came out with a very clear statement, arguing that given what we know about the virus and about kids being stuck at home, the aap strongly advocates that all policy considerations for c ting school year should start with the goal of having students physically present in school im joined by one of the authors of that report. A pediatrician, and Infectious Disease expert, and theice chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee oea infectious ds. Thank you for being here. Your report offers all kinds cautions about how to make school safer, how toee teachers and kids safe. But given what we know now, make the argument you made in this report. I know there is a lot ofe concern about risks of kids going into school for students and teachers. We know a lot more now than we did in march when we pretty much all shut schools down. I think there are ways that we can make schools saf it is really a strategy of risk mitigation. We are not goi to be able to eliminate risk in schools. The other crucial side of the coin is that kids will suffer from not being in school. Lots of concerns with Behavioral Health and all types of problems being at home. Youwe look at wha are trying to do now with reopening the economy, it hato do with children being in school. We really need to be doing that. Some of your report seems to be informed byab learnint how kids get sick with coronavirus and how they might transmit it to others like teache. It is becoming clear that kids are less likely to get infected with covid19. When they do get infected, the disease tends to be much less severe than adult, and they seem to be less likely to disease to other people. We think probably because they are less symptomatic. Erthere are a nuf factors involvedhai think we now know that we didnt know then. I hear everythingoure saying about the importance emotionally psychologically, educationally of getting kids back in schools, but i know so many parents who have heard the mantra of social distance, stay away from others, now sending her kids back into clotted class crowded classrooms is terrifying for them. How do we make schools safe so that can happen . A few things we physical distancing works. Ideally six feet, but even three feet is good. Wearing face coverings, particularly for the olderids. Wmasksk. There was more and more evidence coming out about the effectiveness of masks. We have to consider the teachers and staff, as well. What we have seen in other places that havepen schools is that thebe spread tends t adult to adult as opposed to childo adult or adult to child. Education week did aoll of teachers and they said they were nervous, two thds said they were. Meight be looking to retire early. Are you worried that reopening plans might cause early retirement . We are in a pretty precipitous place right now with cases increasing in a lot of states. So yeah, i think there is reason to be nervous. I think for communities where the virus is not raging, i do think it is realistic to open schools safety. Yevo im n. I understand why teachers would be nervous as well. All things considered, though, school is crucial on so many levels. That was the infant andim tus behind this guidance. Teachers should be inlved in our involved as plans reopen. Im optimistic in a lot of places we are going to be a. E to get the thank you very much for your time. Thank you. A new crackdown in hong kong. 23 years to the c dayna took back control. A report on how this ominous d dawned on the freewheeling hub of international business. With the wave of a blue banner, a confrontation with protesters and an arrest, Hong Kong Police made it clear that it does not allow fre of speech. Police arrested activists for what they did and what they said. Prodemocracyts activ were detained. Protests continued into the nigh Police Detained more than 300. It definitely completely changed inside hong kong. Isaac chang is Vice President of a prominent prodemocracy group. Gtheup disbanded after fear of arrest after the law was passed we have the rights to protest. The National Security law restrict o these kin freedoms, so we can no longer seek speak anything to fight againstis this commregime. Nick the national securitca losses anyonbe arrested or jailed who organizes, or plans demonstrations for undermining national unification, who promotes desk provokes hatred of beijing, who directly or indirectly receivestr itions or any other kinds of support visiting hong kong. Why are you willing to do this interview despite the threats . I have to speak to present the hong kong situation that we hope the International Society can recognize the situation. Nick the u. S. Has revoked visas of senior officials and promises more action. The u. K. W face deptation. s it is a lifeline for one hong kong couple eligible for citizensh british who i spoke to today. Why are you thinking about leaving hongong . We have to do it for our daughter. We have a nextgeneratn. Nick of the hundreds of thousands that have filled the streets, thousands feel like they have lost the battle and are planning on emigrating area the couple did not want to give their names or show their faces criticizing the new law ever g it is what people say, what people wear, what people look like. With k this law, we no longw how the government is going to define or execute the law. Nick you are talking about leaving your home, leaving where you have been raising your child, leaving all your friends. How do you feel about that . Really sad. To be really honest, this is the last resort for us. Im pretty sure my parents ckent going to be ok to move out. Where are you hoping to move . The covid19 and the political situation in the states and also the brexit poses a lot more questions. Nick ne other place that has done a pretty good job of covid19 is taiwan. Would you consider going to taiwan . A a lot of peop now questioning how aggressive beijing would be toward taiwan now. Nick that is a nightmare for wu. S. Policymaker have been trying to bolster taiwans ability to stand up to beijngg more than ong could. Another group not standing up to beijinis the business mmunity every good community. I think it would be a leap to say that tourists or regular Business People should be concerned about this. Nick the president of the u. S. China business councilays the 1300 american businesses and 85,000 americansurrently in hong kong are willing to abide by the National Security law. I suspect that it will have an impact at the margin, but i would not expect that to be overly large. Businesses are not iological. Businesses will where there is security, stability, safety and a good market. And china is a very large and important market. Nick that is music to beijings ears. It was a celebration today for the communist party, marking the 1997 handover of hongonrom britain to beijing. They say the legislation was necessary. This will secure National Sovereignty and security. Nick activists admit it means they are already restriccad in what thesay. What do you want the United States and the west to do . I cannot speak a lot because now it is the National Security law. Nick the silencing of hong kong activists has begun a there is little standing in the way of beijings plans. State was elected to congress in 2016. The cochair of the congressional ogressive caucus her book, use the power you have, a browns womanide to politics and political changes out this week. She joins us now. Thank you very much. Congratulations. This is about how you grew up in is accomplished indian family. Evely on, you started this search for your identity. Yo wanted to stop living in thei think its how you wrote it. What did you mean by that . Rep. Jayapal thank you for havi me. I came to this country when i was 16 years old by myself because my parents took everything they had and they used it to send me here to this land of opportunity and i kept struggling to figure out, and i mi indian am i amerin . A sta here 18 years before getting my citizenship. When you travel from one part of the world to another part of the world, you are in that limbo state. That is thei talk about. Indianamerican, latino american, africanamerican. We all bring with us different pieces, whatever the means is that we have come to this country. Iig think ints today exemplify that search for identity, search for meaning, but alsohe striving to bring everything we have to bear to this new country we call home. Judy your journey as you describe it. Arena. Rked in the nonprofit you worked in finance on wall street. You came to a point where you realized that it was not e bugh toon the outside, you want to do be on the inside fighting for what youve bel but you clearly think it is tougher for a person of color, hence the title of the book. Brown womans guide to politics. How is it different . Rep. Jayapal first of all, you can just look at the numbers. The first south asi American Woman ever to serve in congress. Im also one of only 14 migrants out of 535 and if you look at the history of congress. Veer 11,000 people have s there have only been 79 women of color congress. Served in just that tells you the barriers outhat exist, but whenet here and it is difficult enough getting here, the fundraising, the way the system works the lack of leadership ladders until also once you get here, this ist a very male, very white institution. It is getting on in age in many wa and we have made a big difference over the last four years ive been here, but atuot of the strs are still built for a certain kind of power and they are built with institutional racism and sexism built into the operation. Judy you have taken on a very visible role clear. F cochaire progressive caucus. The issues are coming thick and fast. I want to ask you about police reform. Seattle, we have seen protesters set up wha they have called an autonomous zone. They pushed out the police for a few weeks. It was just today that police were able to break that up peacefully, but two people died in thee cou of these last few weeks. Thetic to whsym these protesters were trying to do. On balance, did they accomplish something useful do you think . Rep. Jayapal ti i am sympat to the whole idea of protest and dissent. It is a fundamental absolutely critica urgentit is in this moment, as we watched george floyd murdered. I think that what has emerged over the last several weeks shouso be again a lfor us in seattle, as well as across the cntry that the kind of militaristic response that happened immediately after those protesters started going out was in fact the very thing that protesters were protesting. So i hope that as we go forward that the city leadership, the city council, all of us at the federal level, really all of us in elected office, as well as everody fighting for justice continues that fight peacefully, nonviolently, but urgently. Because that is what we must do if we are to move forward as a country. Judy very quickly, a question about the president ial race. You i with Bernie Sanders campaign. You did after Bernie Sanders dropped out endorse j biden. Readou concerned i what you said and you expressed concern that he may not beno progressiveh to excite younger voters, progressive voters do you seriously believe that these are voters whoould vote for donald trump over joe biden . Rep. Jayapal no, i dont think they would vote for donald trump, but that has a nays been our problem with our base. The problem has been that our base feels unheard, in reached out to, uninspired by candidates who run inel varioustions, including as president. I think that one of the thdgs we have to do talk about this in the book is we have to actually speak to our base, we have to talk to them with ideas that inspire young people and folkse f color becaey wont vote donald trump. Buthewill potentially sit out if they are not inspired. There are a lot of reasons why these voters are disenfranchised to start with. We dont have time to go into them. What i would say is that any democratic resident has to voters, we need our base to be with us. We cant just go to the swing voter and forget abouturase. Judy congresswoman pramila yapal, thank you very much. The boo y is use the power have your use the power you have pure rep. Jayapal thank you, judy. Judy as the covid summers surge imbs, miles obrien explores ways to treat the virus is part ti our leadingedge series on science and inno. Some of the video wasf shot as part earlier collaboration with frontline. Miles ad ryan pgett is back home with hisamy. On the mend after a neardeath experience, a hail mary pass, and a snning victory over covid19. It all began in late february when he and his team at evergreenhealth kirklandomegan treatingvery sick nursing home residents with the symptoms of viralneumonia. You are used to dealing with patients with illness, but to realize you are potentially going to have 60 patients from one place with this novel illnes was kind of scary. Miles with only a handful of sixday sickays and 19 years on the job, he was not too concerned about his own health. He was the picture of it. Restarting offensive lineman in the 1996 rose bowl, he has always stayed in great shape. Then the telltale symptoms of covid19 came t rushingough his bodys defensive lineman. I realized something was different here and i realized thatobiming wise i was ly affected. It is like getting hit by a truck. Miles things went downhill fast. He ended up in the icu aed h Medical Center on a ventilator and a heartlung machine. The virus had done plenty of damage, but inside his body, Something Else was at play. His immune system had mounted a counteroffensive that d run,. This overreaction mygh immune system had ca wildfire. My bodyas overreacted and putting me into kidney failure, respiratory failure, my heart and my liver started going downhill miles it was not a surprise. There were numerous reports of a similar thing happens to cancer patients. We are all learning day today how to manage this illness, we are all borrowing from other disease processes. Les used to eat people with eumatoid arthritis as well. Doctors in china had some success with it. Doctors saw no reason not to try it r onn padgett. Within days, they had weaned him off the machines. We were very encouraged by miles dr. Ay patel the team at swedish has now treated more than 65 Covid Patients with encouraging results. He is participating in a big, randomized study, results due later this summer. But ryan padgett needs noin convcing. It saved my life. Miles you think . Absolutely. This is a timefi of put your er where it is bleeding and hold it. Lets hope it ops. Miles understandable in a pandemic, but it can often lead to false. Peopl want hope, but false hope is not just neutral, it is worse than no hope at all. Miles mi c derek lowe has done earlystage Drug Discovery for 30 years and ty rights the wellrespected blog in the pipeline pure co. People are looking for a silver bullet. I dont blame them for a minute. We havent had a situation like this. Saying, iused to got this disease, where is the drug . Everyone is starting to learn at bit more about what Drug Discovery is like. Miles we are all learning the hard way. A lot of good things have comeut about hydroxy. Miles President Trump regularly supported hydroxychloroquine before there was Scientific Data to support the claims. When the data came in, it showed hydroxychloroquine offers no benefit, but also great harm, causing potential fatal heart arrhythmias in some patients. On june 15, the fda revoked the emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine as a covid19 treatment. Dr. Geged diaz trea the first u. S. Covid19 patient at providence regional Medical Center in everett. He was failing fast when dr. Diaz got permission from the fda and the patient to try the antiviral drug remdesivir. He was having very high fevers and was requiring oxygen the day we give it to him. By the next day, his fever had resolved and heas able to come off oxygen the next day. And he felt much better. Miles d dz is participating in a big, randomized study of remdesivir ands i seeing lots of encouraging signs from the patients he treats. A separate Study Released at the end of may shows remdesivir slhtly reduces the length of hospital stays for covid19 patients. That tell you where the drug is, helpful, but not a cure. There is n way that one single drug can shut down a viral infectioin that is one we have sort of proven over the years. Miles doctors in the front lines all over the world have tried hundrerugs for off patiente in covid the most promising, a steroid tone study shows it reduc mortality rate for Covid Patients on ventilators. But perhaps the most proven way to beat ck a virus is found in the blood of the survivors. After all, the antibodies. One survivor may only be able to help no more than three others. The solution may lie in immune cells which are cloned and grown in large basses batches. Scientists are identifying the most effective antibodies. Dr. Robert gary is a professor ofd microbiology immunology at tulane medical school. These have worked very well in other serious diseases like thebola virus. So im waiting for the antibodies. I think that those are very likely to have a major impact on the course of this illness. Miles it is like a temporary vaccine for those who are sick. While it likely wont take as long to bring them to the market as a vaccine, scaling up production to meet Global Demand will take time and may be patients tn we have. R the pbs newshour, im miles obrien in seattle. Judy much attention, including ours at the newshour, has lately been focused on the push to end the covid19 pandemic. T some are calling racism in this country another kind of epidemic and urging more attention be paid to ending it as well. Despite the longstanding perception that the u. S. Is a nation defined by its divisions, our special correspondt turns to a different perspective, the test in our race matter series and herat ongoing Look Solutions to race issues. Americans have often been portrayed as beingoefully divided. But david brooks has been insisting even before recent events that this country is more united then divided. You surely know david from the newshour on fridays. In another role, he has been rellhing out to americans of stripes to understand how they are feeling in these uncertain times. Thank you so much for joining us. So great to be with you you have written columns in the past two months saying the country is more united then divided. Re whoou talking to and what was leading you to that can conclusion . I put in a plea to my readers and 6500 sent me essays about how they wer doing and a lot of when i spoke to tver thend yet weeks and the months, they were super impressed by how their neighbors were showing up for each other. My local restaurant is giving me food, my neighbors are showing up for me, my chch is a suit kitchen, and there was a sense thathe country was acting fo each other and so i think especially in the first few weeks of the pandemic, there was purpose, and vulnerability. Has there been anything else as a result of the pandemic that ha together or realize they were more united than they thought . The reaction to the floyd murder has been a very good news story. I look at the marches and there was some violence in the beginning, but the violence has they were not a black uprising, they were an american uprising. What is the solutionma to ng the unity last . The first thing we have to do is learn fromach other and talk to each other. My rule is the more uncomfortable the convers, ion isthe more i learn from it. Im hoping the first thing we do is make use of this ment of useful discomfort to face realities in our country and that is the shift in consciousness that needs to take personal transformatcin and transformation happen together. Then it has to be institutionalized with action. Segregation and prejudice, we have areas of concentrated poverty all across this country. To me, this wont be fixed this wont be fixed until that is fixed. Getting involved in the things that join us together, the things we love together. We love our kids. Ifld we cou focus on africanamerican education, education for poor people, that is part o the solution, not just police reform. Weifove our work. We can give common work so there isno ec polity in this country. We love our neighborhoods. Op doing the best work are in the neighborhood. I was talking about watts recently. There i an Organization Called sisters of watts. They know what watts needs. Outside groups dont know. But if we got money to them ande resources and to them, they actually know what to do. So getting money right to the grassroots, to the peopl who cat write grants because they are too busy. That to me is how you build of a neighborhood and the neighborhood is the unit of change here. Tell me about how this fits into your solution for unity . Forem years and years it like every column i was writing was about social isolation, social disconnection. I realized this is a problem underlying lot of other problems, but it is also being solved by community builders, who i call weavers. They are bridging connections, they are finding a better way to live. For example in chicago, ere is a woman who lives there and she was going to move out because she had a daughter and she was going to go to atlanta. She booked the moving company. Bthe dayore she was going to move out, she looked across the streetmp at an lot and there was a little girl in a pink dress playing with broken bottles and she turns to her husband and says, we are not moving out. We a not going to be just another family that left behind. She now runs the Big Community organization in the neighborhood. The lote cleaned up created connections in the community. Now if you go there, a there some stores and they sell tshirts. So the Community Begins to get turned around by weavers. I find weavers everywhere. We drop into a place, we ask around, who makes a difference here . Weaz find 75 people doing g stuff. They are leading us into a better fute. Are you hopeful based on what youve seen that the solutions youve seen working areoing to continue . And how do you make them continue for the benefit of all of us . When i look the marches, when i look at the people who i speak to, when i look at the people i interview, i just see such a desire for a new e. In such a sense that this is a portal to a different future. I have faith in that. I think that is what so many people want to hear now. Thank you for being with us. It is a real pleasure. Judy our now read is Book Club Pick was a spy thriller lives matter protest. Black Jeffrey Brown talks with author Lauren Wilkinson as part of our arts series canvas. The west african nation of burkina faso in the 1980s and the reallife figure of a revolutionary leader, whomci the is eager to be rid of. A cold war espionage thriller, with a twist. Its protagonist is a blackoman. Author Lauren Wilkinson. The thing tha was after was creating a very complicated female charactern the spy genre. I felt that the spy genre is a really Good Opportunity to talk about double consciousness because it is so much about to me, being a spy is so much about being very aware of how other people perceive you. This idea of the double consciousness i was thinking aboutalph ellison with invisible manhe says ive been a spyor in this countrys long as i can remember. The main charactins grandfathesible man says something very similar to him that kind of confounds the protagonist for most of the book. I think this book was my own version of exploring that idea. With the grandfather was saying when he said that he was a spys in this case, it is a spy but as a black man in his case. I took the metaphorical idea and i made it as literal as possible. To give it a little more dimension. Ather thing you are clearly exploring through your characters, right andng w, in the classic spy genre at least what im familiar with are aware of the moral ambiguities, but they fall int you dont even know who is good and bad anymore. Your characters trying to keep hold of what is right and wrong. I love the s that exists in the moral gray area. That is the one that always speakso me. La carres spies, i love the spy who came in from the cold, i love that figure who is morally gray. Their moral compass may not be aligned with the country they are working fo i think with marie, with a black spy, they are antodded dimension hat. Her awareness that she is working for and serving an institution that she does not feel is designed to serve her as a black american. So she has every reason to challenge the moral compass of the institution in which she works and s is challeed by it despite herself. Of course,ou wrote this what is happening in our culture right now, but we were reading it in our club, i just read it in the last few weeks after the killing of george floyd with the protesters in the street. Ho do you see the book now . Does it resonate in a new way for you . No, because i felt that i was writing about things that have always ested and will always exist. [laughter] unless we make someeal, real systemic changes. So i think what has been happening is that it has always been present, only now is there an awareness o it inserted more mainstream thinking in our country. As said, the book took seven years and i wrote about it for those whole seven years with a confidence that the way that marifelt was going to resonate with black people. The novel is merican spy, Lauren Wilkinson, thank you very much. Thank you for having me. Judy that was great. For july, our Book Club Selection is citizen an american lyric, by claudia rankin. She explores moments in her own life and those of others to draw a richly detailed portrait of race in america. We hope you will read along and join other readers for our book Club Collaboration with the new york times. That i the newshour for tonight. Join us tight. Please stay safe and we will see you soon. 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