From n.p.r. News in Washington d.c. This is Weekend Edition. Good morning the French elections are heating up and the very future of the European Union is at stake with the French ambassador to the United States about why he has broken protocol to take a very public stand against one of the candidates also the end of an epic space voyage draws near an emotional chat with a scientist who has been working on the Cassini mission to Saturn for decades about what it feels like to see it all end and Irish rocker amalgam a on her new sound and new post-divorce life you're going to love her latest album it's Sunday April 30th the news is coming up next. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I'm Barbara Kline President Trump says he's keeping one promise after another and he's continuing to attack the news media for what he calls overly critical coverage of his early months in office N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley reports Trump skipped last night's annual dinner with White House reporters so a burning is $100.00 days instead with his political supporters in Pennsylvania even with national approval ratings mired in the low forty's Trump's core supporters are still enthusiastic thousands of people turned out Saturday night in Harrisburg Pennsylvania for a rally celebrating Trump's 100th day in office despite setbacks in Congress and the courts Trump says he'll continue to push for the repeal of Obamacare and to impose new vetting requirements on visitors to the United States make no mistake we are just beginning in our fight to make America great again. Also visited a wheelbarrow factory in Pennsylvania and signed an executive order calling for a review of all u.s. Trade agreements Scott Horsley n.p.r. News Washington South Korea says Washington confirms the u.s. Will pay for sad the anti missile defense system that's being installed in South Korea to shoot down North Korean missiles as N.P.R.'s Lauren Frayer reports from Seoul that's an apparent reversal by the White House President Trump caused alarm when he said late last week that Seoul should pay for the missile defense system it's already being installed under a deal in which South Korea provides the land and the u.s. Operates and pays for it that South Korea says Trump's national security advisor h.r. McMaster has reassured officials here that despite Trump's comments the u.s. Will pay for it after all Meanwhile White House chief of staff writes Priebus says the u.s. And Asia face no bigger threat than what's happening in North Korea he says the president will talk with the leaders of Singapore and Thailand today about the threat of nuclear destruction. Posed by Pyongyang Turkey's government is purging nearly 4000 more public employees N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon reports its latest move under the emergency decree it imposed after last summer's failed military coup there are already more than 130000 public employees suspended or sacked and more than $45000.00 are facing charges the state run Anatolia news agency says the latest dismissals include more than 2000 from the justice ministry in the military mass firings were also ordered among staff in the judiciary the parliament and the national election board this month's referendum approving strong powers for the presidency was met with allegations of fraud which the government strongly denies the order reinstates more than 700 workers affected by previous decrees a separate decree was also issued this one banning television dating shows which have been criticized as damaging the institution of the family Peter Kenyon n.p.r. News Istanbul this is n.p.r. . Space x. Has scrubbed today's planned launch of a military satellite because of an issue with a rocket sensor the hold was called 52 seconds before liftoff at Cape Canaveral space x. Says it will try again tomorrow the private companies trying to send its 1st top secret satellite into orbit for the Defense Department heavyweight boxing has a new world champion British boxer Anthony Joshua as Villa marks reports Joshua has defeated Ukrainian champ fled Amir Klitschko in a bruising 11 round encounter at London's Wembley Arena last night it was the U.K.'s biggest boxing crowd for 80 years in the 1000 supporters had plenty to cheer about when the 27 year old on the bomb just who it was announced as the winner after a technical knockout in the 11th round his victory in this long anticipated match up means that Josh was retained his I.B.'s heavyweight belt and snatched the i.b.o. And w.p.a. Championships from a 41 year old the fight for both men not to the canvas and by the 6th round the Englishman seemed on the verge of defeat but he fought back and back to the veteran champ to the floor twice in the 11th round before the referee intervened to end the contest Klitschko it was magnanimous in defeat from the win means Joshua maintains his own beaten record in a 905 professional career then p.r. News under the mountain on the world famous Swiss climber has died in a mountain nearing accident near Mt Everest the 40 year old was preparing to ascend Everest through a less climbed route next month stick nicknamed the Swiss machines set new records in solo Alpine climbing and Barbara Klein n.p.r. News in Washington support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Stations other contributors include visit St Pete Clearwater host destination of the International Gay and Lesbian travel associations 2017 annual global convention May 4th through 6 more busy St Pete Clearwater dot com. Get the most out of your social media and develop a social media marketing plan at a hands on workshop presented by USA a Center for Corporate and professional development 7 Steps to a social media marketing plan will help you think through and outline your strategic social marketing interactive marketing plan Friday May 5th from 9 to 1230 station Arp enroll at u.a. 8 dot Alaska dot edu slash c c p d this message sponsored by USA. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Lucasian of r o the future of France will be decided on May 7th 2 very different candidates are in a runoff for the presidency in the pen is the far right candidate who is promising to take France out of the European Union her rival is centrist Emmanuel McCall a former investment banker with little government experience the stakes are high will France follow the u.s. And the u.k. Riding the populist wave to talk about this we have in the studio the French ambassador to the United States Jihad Al thanks so much for being with us it's great pleasure so so many analysts in France contend that even if one in the pen doesn't win this time she may win the next time you know we've seen the traditional parties in France do very badly if this election is any indicator is it only a matter of time before the European Union is done. Well actually usually it's a bit difficult to explain the French political life to the Americans and vice versa and I think this time unfortunately our political lives are pretty comparable we are facing the same wave of populism the same with a 1000000000 or so my forward citizen saying that you know CERN's dear leads to political traditional political parties have not delivered for them so they're ready to try something new are you concerned though that the European Union eventually will be at risk because of these forces sweeping Europe at the moment yes. I never thought in my lifetime I could believe that you would be a union will be frightened but it is frightened from a generation the European Union was very in a sense very easy to explain each was the War 2 world wars a genocide or not were continent invaded 3 times I do Germans in 70 years it was really a way of saying it's over. To you for obviously we we don't have a way to explain to your being Union France isn't bastard to Japan has said publicly that he would refuse to serve in the pen government are you supported his position I'd like to know why you know I have been a diplomat for the last 45 years and I really do know that as a diplomat we shouldn't take sides in a political debate we have a duty to be neutral and I know it is duty but the book of this duty we have also a conscience you know major narration of diplomats who have always wondered what we would have done and the German occupation and we should of course know the circumstances are much less serious but nevertheless the question is there it's a far higher government the far idea is not the usual political party it's something totally a question of society against a question of civilization but do you think that causes what we are seeing now in the u.s. Where the impartiality of career diplomats like yourself are being called into question you know some believe loyalists are the only ones who should be put into sensitive places in government if they take those kinds of positions when you are facing some circumstances you have to sort of ranking among your concerns the concern you express which is a genuine concern sounds less important than avoiding the Viktoria of the far right . I'm just curious have you asked the United States for help with Russian meddling in the French elections we've seen similar reports to what happened here with the campaign staff they were the subject of cyber attacks after the after the American after the American elections there were contacts between intelligence services to check the way the Russians acted and we have given advice to the French political parties saudade defend their digital system whether they did it or they didn't do it I don't of course I don't know what we have seen. For the moment more than a king or more than fake news is the sort of the Russian media because the Russian media have been really very active into supporting the far right and trying also to attack Emmanuel McCormack You know in the 1st time they try to eat they implied that he was gay after that day where insisting that he was he had to work for the bank or child which was of course a sort of veiled anti semitism But again we have not it may change in the coming days but so far we have not felt it is a concern that there might be some big dump of sensitive information like what happened to the Clinton campaign about McLeod I don't know do you think again where is putting something like that could sway the election I mean how close to see it. For the moment you know ballers 6040 percent according to polls but I our political life is so polarized that this result depends a lot on electors voters from the left and voters from the right choosing Michael and it's so polarized that I mean I'm a bit wary did that a lot of them should decide to abstain she may win you know all the pores and all the creations may show that she may win if there is a massive abstention. French ambassador to the United States. Thank you so much for being with us thank you it was a pleasure. There's been a lot of focus on Donald Trump's 1st $100.00 days but the same weekend that Donald Trump was inaugurated there was another major news event thousands of people turned out for the women's March on Washington and there were marches all over the world as well many of those who marched opposed Donald Trump's policy agenda on a variety of issues the environment immigration and abortion just to name a few Here's Jackie Knight who came to the March from Durham North Carolina I met all my family members and tell them what our awesome experience was and that they need to join the event that we're going to continue to have around the country so a lot of optimism a lot of hope so while everyone evaluates the Trump presidency we want to know 100 days later what can we say the women's March has accomplished for more we asked N.P.R.'s Danielle Kurtz Lavan to join us in the studio good morning hello so the day of the March you had throngs of women and men in the streets what came out of all that energy that energy created some concrete accomplishments for example I spoke to one organizer of last weekend's March for science she told me that the women's March directly inspired the March for science but what about concrete results has there been an uptick in political action there has for one thing the women who organize the women's March afterwards continue doing this kind of organizing they started doing this thing they called 10 actions in 100 days where they sent out these calls for women to do things like register to vote meet up with your friends and talk about what kind of organizing you can do in your own community so they did that and maybe show up at some of these town hall meetings from Republican Congressman who are heading home yes so we've certainly seen that and aside from that you just heard a lot of women and I've spoken to some who have said you know I am actually calling my congress member I'm sending out postcards One woman told me she said faxes I haven't heard anybody say that knew of one other thing you've heard women saying that this March inspired them to want to run for office Anneliese list which helps elect pro-choice Democratic women says that this year they have had $11000.00 women . Reach out to them and say they want they are interested in running for office now they compare that to the last cycle the 2016 cycle where they said they had 900 sets a huge jump right and you have that that is just one organization that's doing that there are plenty of others did the moment launch a movement though I guess what I'm asking here is can the enthusiasm last well it's an interesting question because it's kind of hard to say that the women's March launched a movement because it was at the intersection of so many movements you had people there who were fighting for what they call climate justice criminal justice racial issues women's issues so it's hard to say that this barked movement so on the one hand you know you had a broad array of groups all of that energy on the other hand this is caused a lot of people to compare the women's March unfavorably to the Occupy movement of 2011 which many people criticized as being too scattered to accomplish all of that much I mean to bring this down to a human level I talked to one attendee She likens trying to be an activist during the Trump administration to whack a mole and she said you know listen I care about a lot of these areas I only have enough energy for one or 2 and I think you you may be hearing that from a lot of people and then on top of that you have the fact that keeping up this energy over time the women's March you know was 100 days ago but it's a year and a half until the midterm elections I mean maintaining this kind of energy could prove very difficult I mean think about all those thousands of women who have said they're interested in running for office then think about how much it takes to get one person on the ballot get money advertise then multiply that by all of those thousands women's So there's a lot more to do before we might see this March really come to fruition Democrats Laban covers politics for n.p.r. Thanks so much of course. President Trump traveled to Pennsylvania yesterday to celebrate his 100th day in the White House and he reminded his cheering crowd where he could have been instead back in a Washington ball room with hundreds of journalists and celebrities they are gathered together. For the White House correspondents dinner without the president for almost 40 years the sitting president has joined the White House Correspondents Association for their annual gala it's a charity event they hand out scholarships to aspiring journalists but let's be honest it's basically a televised black tie roast you know down from doesn't drink right does not touch alcohol which is hardly respectable think about that that's Hassan Menards who hosted this year's event that means. Every statement. Every interview every tweet completely sober How was that possible knowledge is a self described Indian American Muslim kid and a correspondent for The Daily Show I would say it is an honor to be here but that would be an alternative fact it is and. No one wanted to do this so of course it lands in the hands of an immigrant it's how it always goes down so there was programming presidential counter programming and then some counter counter programming was. Up That's comedian Samantha Bee who hosted her very own straightforwardly titled not the White House Correspondents Dinner I know it looks like we have a cash bar tonight but as I promised you in the invitation at a later date I will get Mexico to pay for all your drinks so the thing for everybody tonight I love you thank you thank you God bless you thank you Farai also points out what does that mean place how you are. Going to do it was. And you're listening to n.p.r. News. Alaska public media celebrates the Alaska Women's Hall of Fame the 2017 induction is Thursday May 4th at the 1st Baptist Church on 10th in l. Street in Anchorage 11 women from across the state will be honored for their contributions to their communities and professions the free celebration is open to the public doors open at 5 pm and you are invited more information at Alaska Women's Hall of Fame dot org This is Weekend Edition Sunday on k s k Anchorage Alaska Public Media. Methadone Suboxone Vivitrol they're all in different types of drugs used to treat opioid addictions but what do those medications actually do how effective are they are they the solution for solving Alaska's addiction crisis joined us on the next talk of Alaska as we discuss medication assisted treatment and its role in the opioid epidemic Tuesday morning at 10 a recorded rebroadcast airs Tuesday night at 8. Reclining with these headlines President Trump has marked his 1st 100 days by taking aim at what he calls bad trade deals and fake news Trump says he's ordered investigations into rising steel and aluminum imports and ordering new tariffs on lumber imported from Canada an Iranian television executive has been killed in Istanbul Saeed Karim Ians gem t.v. Dubs Western shows into Farsi for Iranian audiences an Iranian court had charged him with spreading anti Islamic and Iran propaganda space x. Has scrubbed today's planned launch of a military satellite it will try again tomorrow the private companies trying to send its 1st classified satellite into orbit for the Defense Department. N.p.r. News. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. 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Officers in the beating of Rodney King the verdict sparked a national debate about racial injustice a debate that continues in the years since anger erupted on Allie's streets the media industry has changed drastically over the past decades if a right erupted today it would surely be chronicled by citizens over social media but in 1902 Amy Alexander was one of the reporters covering the violence she's with me in our studios in d.c. Hi there hi and whack is with us she was in high school at the time of the riots She's now an Associated Press reporter on the A.P.'s race and ethnicity team Hey there. Minority representation in newsrooms is still overwhelmingly white male These days 25 years ago I imagine it might have been even worse who was directing the coverage back then who's your editor Well there was a lovely gentleman named Terry Jackson who was our city editor who was a white man and then there were 3 or 4 assistant city editors was a staff writer at a mid-size newspaper and the team that I was a part of that went was comprised of myself I'm an African-American woman a white woman reporter she was actually an l.a. Native which made her ideal and a photographer who's Chinese American I did not have at that moment a real awareness of sort of our demographic makeup and how that might interplay with what we were about to enter but literally within hours after we arrived it became apparent really quickly that I actually was at an advantage because a lot of the individuals who took to the streets who were upset they weren't all African-American but a lot were black people there was actually a pretty broad mix of people that were on the streets but I never really felt threatened or imperiled in contrast to some other. Journalists I call on scene that 1st night who were challenged if not physically challenged because they were white because they were white Aaron you were in high school at the time was the right on your radar though do you remember them you know they definitely were on my radar the Rodney King video you know that was really kind of cable news that really coming into the town and really kind of bringing the 2 coasts and everybody in between a lot closer together making people care about the issues that were happening that is a mile away and so you know if you were a black person in America you know you had seen that Rodney King video you were familiar with that you were horrified by it and you were interested in invested in the outcome of that trial and you covered Ferguson when you listen to Amy talk about some of the things that happened to her and some of the things she witnessed during the l.a. Riots does that have resonance for you does that sound similar to what you saw in Ferguson in terms of some of the racial animus and and how being African-American helped or didn't help when you're covering that kind of situation sure I think that you do have this racial tension that explodes between a community and local law enforcement certainly the l.a. Riots in the minds of that community and law enforcement you know they don't want that situation repeated and so you know that condition was present in Ferguson when the grand jury decision came down Ferguson a better time a very tense people you know were trying to urge folks to remain calm and to not be violent and I think that there definitely go some of the ghosts of the l.a. Riots. In that conversation and kind of going into that grand jury decision there were definitely a lot a lot of Black Journalists on the ground in transition early on and frankly a lot of and you know have been counted the hash media to recognize that this was going to be a national story and we needed to be. The grounds for a sting of possible while Erin was describing what she witnessed in Ferguson I find very interesting a contrast is that in Los Angeles the Los Angeles Police Department had been very passive that night the 1st night and you know there's been a lot written and a lot of policy discussions over the years and certainly in the immediate aftermath about whether their lack of input allowed upset to Spirit. People come in reporters come in when there's an event like this but the broader question and some of the criticism has been was there reporting on these communities and their concerns. Before these disturbances in both Ferguson and Los Angeles you know a lot of media attention when things get ugly but before that was there a sense that these communities really being served by the media you know I think that a lot of what the African-American community in the greater St Louis area want to say was not that they necessarily had been voiceless that if they had been around her in cities like for the fans Baltimore I mean the city didn't really register on national consciousness before these police involved going to happen and so while there may have been some attention kind of on a local level nationally before it appears using it and really kind of and covering it as you said the 1st time I know you have a lot of reporters really kind of astonished. About the level of racial tension in the heart of America you have the Midwest is not a place where a lot of Americans frankly a saying that racism is a problem that it was you know nothing new to the people who have been living there I mean there was a lot of conversation about how the media did after the l.a. Riots How do you think the coverage should now in hindsight. I feel like the follow up coverage sort of caught up to the facts relatively quickly but in the immediate aftermath there was to me evident gaps in the coverage that had to do with the with the demographic gaps that exist in news organizations It happened in my newsroom the editors back in the Central Valley had injected ideas and language to some of my stories that I completely found objectionable but they made those decisions based on their own assumptions so I'm putting in loaded language and certain parts of certain stories that just sort of fit into certain stereotypes you know using words like rampage for example which all the stories I wrote that week live I would never I never called what I had witnessed rampaging that is a loaded word so well and listening to Amy now have things changed. I do think that things have changed I think that you know did have a pretty diverse group of journalists who were on the ground in further saying although I you know I would point out that the decision makers have not necessarily become that much more diverse still overwhelmingly white and male and those people you know are the gatekeepers but you do have journalists of color. Unfortunately has been in the scenario multiple times in multiple cities in the past few years and so they have developed sort of a kind of expertise on these issues that I think does help improve the coverage and frankly social media is course correcting a lot of these stories in real ham I mean Aaron when you look at the situation in newsrooms now still lots of problems getting people of color where they need to be in terms of the hierarchy in an editorial positions what needs to happen so that you know minority communities and concerns can be better represented today and Amy I'll start with you it's if you have enough checks and balances in terms of diversity of thought experiences which you know means people from different economic backgrounds different parts of the country to graphic diversity different age ranges you have a better chance I think of being able to sort of have someone put their hand up as a story coming across and saying you know we might want to take a 2nd look at this piece of this we kind of want to make sure we're not making certain assumptions and Aaron it's exactly as many said you know obviously depending on you know someone background the various criteria that make up someone background that is going conform how they decide this are that question I will find I definitely felt like you know being a black girl and has been having a single really throughout my career I've always you know written about the effect of life and various If you can America Heidi and. So you credit that you know as a black woman Amy Alexander and Aaron whack thanks so much both of you for joining us today thank you thank you. Christina's odyssey through the cosmos has entered its final act the unmanned spacecraft was launched 2 decades ago to explore Saturn and its moons but in a few months its mission will come to a dramatic end with its plunge into the depths of Saturn's atmosphere Dr Carolyn Porco joins me now she is the leader of the Cassini imaging team thanks so much for being with us Oh thank you so much for having me so how does having a big finish what's it up to well we decided to go out in grand style there were still a lot of verbs left in the spacecraft in the instruments and we knew it was time to bring the mission to an end all good things must end and so we put it on an orbit that took it and is taking it through uncharted territory we're very very close to the cloud tops of Saturn where measuring in fine detail the gravitational field of Saturn we're going to be measuring the rotation rate of the planet and then finally it will be measuring the composition of the Saturn atmosphere so in some real sense this is like a new mission and like I said we're going out in grand style What is the legacy of this mission what have we learned oh my goodness where do I begin gives us enough. We have basically come to intimately know this incredibly phenomenologically rich planetary system kind of the promised land in our solar system we have come to intimately know it now and it has to show you know so many things but the thing that I get most excited about is that we have found on some small moon called and sell it is no bigger across than England. Subsurface ocean that we believe is the most accessible habitable zone in our solar system outside the earth and so there are some of us who are eager to return to find out if life in fact has gotten started on this moon you've worked on this mission since its inception and on the Cassini imaging website you've kept what you call and I love this as a Star Trek fan myself a captain's log it's a journal of the mission's progress but it's not what I think our listeners might expect a scientist logbook to look like the entries have titles like I dreamed of calling a year of splendor and The Day the Earth smiled It seems as if this mission has really been important to you personally Oh my goodness yes it's been my life for the last 27 years you know for people who aren't in in our business and don't participate in flight missions like they're so it's hard to describe you know how committed you have to be and there were many years not months not weeks but many years when it required clearing the decks of everything including any semblance of a normal life to make it happen but you know through all of it it's you know you're doing something so historic and so incredibly privileged and there is a poetry to it that of course that's what you're picking up it's we we feel we're living the explorers life and immersing ourselves in nature's secrets and mysteries where the high priests and priestesses who are. Trying to tease out what it is that nature is telling us about ourselves about our place in the cosmos and we're doing this by trying to understand what is around us what's our cosmic neighborhood and I don't think there's anything greater to be doing with one's life than that after investing so much time in the. Mission How do you feel now that Cassini is having. Its finish well you know when I just sit and think about it myself I'm thinking wow it's been such a lot of work I think you know it'll be a relief when it's over I'll go camping no bugs and then bust in the next 2 years I don't know walking along beaches and marring the scenery but when you know I get on a program like this and I'm hearing someone else say oh it's the end I'm choking back tears it's an abrupt juncture you know for 27 years up until when it goes into Saturn I will have spent my life doing this one thing and then after that it's over and that goes for many many of us on this project so it's going to be in some sense is going to be like a death you know it's it's been a huge part of my life and then it won't be there anymore but I think also that I I mean I know that's a legacy that I'm always going to be enormously proud of and I think I'll enjoy it when I'm you know in my rocking chair you know as an old lady just thinking about what I did with my life that's Dr Carolyn Porco She's the head of the Cassini imaging team thanks so much for being with us and congratulations Oh thank you so much. You're listening to Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News. Hollywood thrillers and labor negotiations have something in common they often go down to the wire and right now writers and producers of those Hollywood movies are racing toward either a new agreement or a writers' strike on Tuesday k p c c s Ben Bergman tells us a large audience of coworkers is watching and hoping for a happy ending. Oh you know when you swing open the front door of Victor's shoe repair in Burbank you're greeted by headshots of celebrity clients and by the friendly manager Isaac goalie Wiles' customers with his repair skills up it was so much that he had to put on a piece in there lately though Goli has not been so cheerful not feeling good goalie shop sits in the shadow of Warner Brothers and Universal Studios he says he gets up to half its business from costume departments on movies and t.v. Shows we're going to have any shows no shoes need to be repaired and fixed and altered Goli was around when writers last walked off the job a decade ago people want company at all. For 67 months it was just horrible I mean I wasn't sure if I was a stay in business or not you know that's how bad it got when you think about who works in the entertainment industry glitz and glamor come to mind but far more people are actually blue collar hauling props around or serving food and it's those workers who could be more hurt from a strike than the writers Steve day and his secretary treasurer of Teamsters Local 399 which represents a rather varied assortment of workers drivers mechanics and animal trainers most people don't have a lot of money saved up in this business so it will have a devastating impact but I would say that within a very short period of time no one will be worth it that's certainly what Ian Dodd is worried about he's a camera operator who hopes to retire in a few years our retirement is based soley on the total number of hours that we work in our career and that's something that I may not have a chance to make up if it's a long term strike Don says the last strike did have one upside he. Got to spend more time with his daughter but then on the other side of course it wiped out the savings account and I fell out of qualification for the health insurance plan in that last bitter strike writers walked the picket lines for $100.00 days. A study by the Milken Institute found the walkout cost the state more than $2000000000.01 of many reasons California tumbled into recession the good news is the state is in much better economic shape now there's no housing collapse to deal with here's the study's author Kevin cloud the fundamentals aren't as bad that being said it does mean that California would see its economy weekend already has some workers in Hollywood have been cutting back one camera man told us his family has stopped eating out or going to the movies in tell the writers and studios make a deal for n.p.r. News I'm Ben Bergman in Los Angeles. Weekend Edition is a production of n.p.r. 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News I'm Luke Arcee in a far away such a Kohls new book of essays begins by talking about anxiety Cole she's a culture writer and editor at Buzz Feed grew up in Canada the child of Indian immigrants and she has no rational fear of dying that comes she says from her parents it starts with death as all good things should I promise this book is a lot more light hearted presenting it and it is a funny book about sex and money and race and class it's called one day will all be dead and none of this will matter Cole's understanding of race was shaped by her life in Canada but also by her trip to India where she felt privileged white or somehow you know being in North America I have a very specific understanding of how my race affects me as I move through the world I am a visibly brown person and that can sometimes not work in my favor and then when I went to India I realized that I had this very specific kind of fair skin privilege and it was such a strange split it felt like I was kind of being pulled into 2 pieces in the How can these 2 things be true at the same time but just in different places what did show you about attitudes towards whiteness in North America I think whiteness is adored everywhere I mean it doesn't matter where you go it's just about having a sliding scale so for example because you know I'm darker skinned in Canada I am treated sometimes with a lot of derision there's a lot of anxiety about me when I take flight for example when I went to India it was sort of interesting to sort of move through the world as inherently privileged and I had it was easy it was really comfortable How did it manifest itself in India people talk to you very differently when you're fair in India when we went to shops there was this sort of understanding that we had money whether or not it was true my family even speaks to me very differently there because I'm fair I get a lot of affection from them because I'm still fair skinned and they touch my skin a lot and there's a part in the book where my aunt asks me if she. And here's my foundation because it'll make her look whiter one of the most resonant sections for me was the chapter called hunting season where did the idea for that come from what were you trying to talk about their hunting season came from I was out drinking with some of my friends and I had a lot to drink and I started noticing how men were looking at me versus the people I was with all of them are men these guys that I didn't know were sort of looking at me like food and later the next day when I was hung over and eating a burger and thinking about. Realize that there is this incredible culture around men watching women and watching women to see if they're drunk enough to take home or to manipulate and that is so complicated to contend with because alcohol is such a big part of our our social lives and such a big part of how we meet people and you write about how you were drugged twice at bars that's terrifying it is terrifying and it's shockingly mundane but I mean what I'm always curious about like what's the difference between being roof eat at a bar which is obviously awful or being plied with like drink after drink after a drink like if you were asked for a drink and it turns out to be a double is that the same thing like that still feels to me incredibly manipulative you're a writer Buzz Feed a senior editor you've had rape threats online we know that women specifically women of color are the targets of just horrific abuse in the in social media sphere how do you confront that how do you you know how do you deal with that I think for a long time what I did was I would try to make a joke about it because it is sort of intrinsically funny because it's so stupid but there was a period about 2 years ago when it got much louder than my sense of humor was able to sort of accommodate and I remember I got a couple of tweets or maybe an e-mail and it said you know I hope you meet a man and you fall in love and you get pregnant you get so excited for this baby. That then you end up giving birth to a stillborn and it was this credibly detailed really long term plan and they sent this to me and I remember thinking well I don't find this funny and I don't want to play and I think it can be really hard to say to yourself I don't want to engage with this it's not funny it's not cute and I don't want to I don't want to play with it in a way that feels public I had a really hard time saying that to myself because I felt like that was losing but what was I getting to begin with I mean I love the internet I grew up on it and I wish it were better to me but it's just not and I haven't found a place where the infrastructure cares about me you just don't infrastructure you're saying you're not yeah supported by the infrastructure what you mean by that . I think Twitter is a great example of a company that does not care mean like it's taken them 10 years to even begin to start talking about what to do about harassment on Twitter and instead of actually fixing it they just sort of find these other routes to dealing with it so you know one of them was that the anonymous Twitter avatar the egg The starting to get associated with harassment a lot and so instead of just fixing harassment they're like let's change that to that to an outline of a man. In no way does that address anything it doesn't fix the thing and it just makes me angrier and I mean I can see this in when i Report tweets how they treat it because so many times they come back to me they're like this doesn't violate our terms of services because they didn't say that they want you to kill yourself they just say if you did it would be nice and I you know my nieces 6 and she talks to the i Pad like it is her sibling and it scares me but that's no idea how dark things can get there and what advice you going to give her about moving into this into this space I think for me one of really important thing was to find people who didn't care about the Internet because when you go to them with like oh this is happening in people are saying this about me and this is how it feels there's it's really comforting to have somebody look at you and say I don't know what you're talking about but also to learn how to turn it off like I'm really bad at this I take my phone everywhere like a crazy person the other day my niece went to the bathroom and she asked if she could take my phone in with her for company which was like but that's just terrifying to me like learning to be by yourself without like a buzzing object in your pocket I'm curious why you wanted to write this book in this way it's really funny irreverent Who are you trying to reach because you talk about how you've never really seen people of color represented in the things that normally get put out into the world you know you try to sort of reach those people who might not see themselves reflected. Day to Day. Journalism Yeah yeah I mean 1st of all I'm like a huge narcissist so like I let me get out there basically be I think. More intimately what I wanted was for my niece to have something to look at when she was older that felt representative and then I think when when you come from a place that's personal like that you end up thinking about a lot of girls who don't get that. I wish I had had that when I was younger so hopefully I can provide it for somebody else that the book is called one day will all be dead and none of this will matter thanks so much for being with us thanks for having me. Irish singer Imelda May has changed her tune known for her hard driving fifty's rockabilly styling her latest album takes a turn towards smoky torch songs soul and blues I could tell him things I do for you you wouldn't know as a news. Agency you. Shoes. But. Just a thing. That should have been you off Imelda amazing new album Life Love flesh blood this is an autobiographical collection that comes out of the and a for 18 year marriage and ultimate joins us now from our London studios welcome to the program ha ha how are you I'm very well I heard you got a nice leather jacket I did I did look at the times for the interview wrong and I meant oh no I must go don't I must go shopping spent all my money. You said about this album it's all in there birth of sex love divorce and death is The Story Of My Life Is it tough creating something so personal when I'm writing I go in was you know so it wasn't so too frightening I was more therapeutic if that makes sense it was nice to just get it all out there and say what I want to say it's like a diary almost Is it hard though to expose yourself like that to to know that there's a musical record of what you may have been going through in a way yes well when I wrote my 1st album it's fine. Because you don't really think anybody's going to hear it in a way so you just write what you want to write and there's a freedom in that and I want to get back to that on this album on the other albums I wrote honestly but I'd be aware and that people might hear it there bar I almost did things in there you know but on this album I want to go back to basics and just say what I want to say and not think of anybody else. Would you. Be. Giving in to temptation Tell me about how bad you're only a lot of fun to write and. It was and a car. After a cardinal from my mother will kill me. On this one I mean I wrote the album over the course of 8 years so I wrote about everything yes my marriage break up was in there but then I met someone else and feeling guilty for been happy again and then having desire to sensuality all these beautiful things that are certainly different experience in your forty's than in your twenty's you know you learn your things about yourself and. That's why I came up with her bad can a good thing. I'd like to give our listeners who may not be familiar with your earlier style. Of what it was rockabilly Imelda So let's hear just a little bit of Johnny got a boom boom. Boom . You've mentioned that you feel that you wanted to get back to something more authentic or something more central to it and you've said before that you felt as you feel you had been dressing up as a meld I'm a. You've changed your sound you've changed your hair is this the real amalgamate or just a different one. And both. Both. I love rockabilly and part of the reason why I went so headfirst into it was I started off doing blues and jazz and roots music in Dublin the commitment was like my life you know the film and yes it was almost exactly like that and I was in poor and clubs and jamming with my friends and like I said blues and jazz and soul and gospel all these and country all these roots music that made sense to me from where I was from and then I had some rockabilly in there as well and when I start to get more well known I got a record company tell me a couple of them tell me everything else great but get rid of the rockabilly reeling to death Yes Wow And that made me want to do more one John Carroll and I'm a mule but the other was I wondered why such an influential music was social and when you know everybody from the Beatles to Jimmy Page and they all tell you they want to be welcomed at least and then the more I got to know it it made me want to shed light on it and hopefully if I did it and did it well I might introduce it to some new people I didn't want to just stay in a box for the rest of my life and it got to a point where it became this and I remain you know and the letter Gail and rockabilly care and I'm no artist wants to be wrapped up with a bow like that I was fascinated to find out that you do all the backing vocals let us in the back have. You. Such a great tune out thank you. Doing your backing vocals Well why why why do that is she. I'm going to answer that act. Which is also why I produce my own my course because there are a lot of your little studio things I might look at I do not like to and so I couldn't afford to pay everybody employed I produce my own records and I did all my own back above that but then my sister talking families when I was 4 years old she brought me to church and got me to Singapore and I try all kinds of things for textures noises and little things like even the hidden Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you know kind of get a little weird textures and I've tried all kinds of things and I I did a gospel choir on my own it's my time and I tried to make my sound slightly different and I I named the mall so it was easier to me I was going Can we go back to Gladys and I was glad instrumental on the other one and I named my different voices your multiple personality of backing vocals I love yeah I love that I just find it so much fun I just really enjoy it and that's the main reason I do we've got time for one more song and of course with a title like Black tears I think it has to be that one set it up for us which is which is the song. I always write down you know little tiny notes and in this book choruses are various Is my I wrote that I don't like to use time. Back it was a long goodbye and it was a half break goodbye and I saw a reflection of myself in the mirror and my face is black stream and my mascara running. And I just. And. Makes me want to break out the whiskey Imelda May's new album is called The Life Love flesh blood thank you so much for speaking with us thank you very much for taking the time. I know of National Public Radio I think great concept Thank you. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News thanks for listening I'm. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. 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