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I'm Lou Garcia Navarro good morning the French elections are sitting up and the very future of the European Union is at stake we'll speak with the French ambassador to the United States about why he has broken protocol to take a very public stance against one of the candidates also the end of an epic space voyage draws the air an emotional chat with the 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 amalgamate 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 had Washington on trial Snyder president tried mark his 100th day in office with a rally in Pennsylvania last night in Harrisburg he defended his administration and dismissed news media coverage as dishonest saying he chose to stay away from the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner earlier the president signed an executive order and N.P.R.'s Scott Horsley reports it calls for a review of all u.s. Trade agreements Trump is often criticized trade agreements like NAFTA as one sided saying they benefit other countries that trade with the u.s. At the expense of American workers Trump decided last week not to withdraw from NAFTA but rather to try to renegotiate the deal he's already commerce secretary Wilbur Ross to take a closer look at all of America's trade agreements we are not going to let other countries take advantage of us anymore because from now on it's going to be America 1st. The administration has also called for an investigation of rising steel and aluminum imports and it's ordered new tariffs on imported lumber from Canada Scott Horsley n.p.r. News Washington while the president was in Pennsylvania demonstrators marched through the streets of Washington d.c. To draw attention to climate change media reports out of Turkey say in a rainy and television executive has been shot and killed in Istanbul N.P.R.'s Peter Kenyon says police are searching for the sale and somebodies of sede Caribbean and his Kuwaiti business partner were found dead in Istanbul neighborhood Turkish media reports the vehicle used in the killing was later found burnt Karelians Jim t.v. Dubs Western programs into Farsi and broadcasts them to Iran he was tried in absentia by a terror on court and convicted on charges of spreading propaganda against Iran the hunt for the killers is underway by the police the b.b.c. Reports the jam t.v. Group was launched in London and later expanded to Dubai it includes 17 Farsi language channels as well as channels and. Arabic as airy and Kurdish Peter Kenyon n.p.r. News Istanbul to Italy now Italians going to the polls today to vote for a new leader of the center left Democratic Party former prime minister material Renzi is facing challenges from Italy's justice minister and a regional governor in the primary the B.B.C.'s Mike Saunders reports that Renzi is looking for a new mandate whoever wins this vote will lead the center left into the general election probably this year my toe ends he wants a wide mandate any Italian over 16 who pays around $2.00 in pledges support for the Democratic Party can cast the ballots his opponents forecast a flop even if he wins he needs to recover from a slump since voters rejected his proposed constitutional reforms last December some polls suggest his party now trails the euro skeptic 5 Star Movement his main opponent Andrei Orlando says the contest is a choice between rebuilding the center left and an alliance with Silvio Berlusconi's center right and you're listening to n.p.r. News. Forecasters expect more heavy rain in the Midwest where flooding and damaging winds have led the governors of Oklahoma and Missouri to declare states of emergency flooding has also been reported this weekend in Illinois in Arkansas and these taxes the National Weather Service confirms 3 tornadoes touched down in the city of Canton several people are reported dead and some 50 others had to be taken to the hospital the launch of a top secret satellite from Kennedy Space Center will have to wait another day from member station. In Orlando Brendan Byrne reports of the private company Space x. Scrub this morning's launch attempt an issue with a sensor on the rocket forced officials to call a hold about 52 seconds before the scheduled liftoff space x. Will begin the process of recycling the rocket and attempt another launch Monday the Falcon 9 rocket is set to launch a top secret payload for the National Reconnaissance Office and intelligence gathering agency inside the Department of Defense it's the 1st national security launch for the private space company Space x. Received clearance to launch this type of payload back in 20151 space x. Launches the rocket it will attempt to land the 1st stage booster back at Cape Canaveral space x. Hopes to lower the cost of launches by reusing parts of the rocket Monday's launch window opens at 7 am Eastern Time weather is 70 percent favorable for a launch for n.p.r. 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News I'm Luke Garcia Navarro the future of France will be decided on May 7th 2 very different candidates are in a runoff for the presidency and again the pan is the far right candidate who is promising to take France out of the European Union her rival is centrist Emanuel 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 a hole Thanks so much for being with us it's quite pleasure so certain many analysts in France contend that even if mind 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 to a French political life to the Americans and Pfizer saw and I think it is time unfortunately our political lifestyle pretty comparable we are facing to same wave of populism same with a 1000000000 or so before with citizens saying that you know sense deletes the political traditional political parties have not 30 votes hold them so they're ready to try something new are you concerned though that the European Union serve Entia Lee will be at risk because of these forces sweeping Europe at the moment yes I. Never thought that you my lifetime I could believe that your pm union would be frightened but it is frightened for my generation to you have been 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 don't Gemini's in 70 years it was really a way your saying its over. To you for obviously we we don't have a way to explain what you do you will be a union. France is a master to Japan has said publicly that he would refuse to serve in the pen government or you supported his position I'd like to know why you know I have you know followed us 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. We have also a conscience you know major narration of diplomats who have always wondered what we would have done and the other German occupation and we should of course the circumstances are much less serious but nevertheless the question is there it's a fat high government the far right is not the usual political party it's so if you think a totally a question of So cite your case it's a question of civilization but do you think that causes what we're 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 put a sort of a ranking among your concerns and you express which is a genuine concern sounds less important than avoiding to Victoria the far right. I'm just curious have you asked the United States for help with the Russian meddling in the French elections we've seen some of the reports to what happened here with the campaign staff there with 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 so the day defended their digital system whether they did it all they didn't do it I don't know of course I don't know what we have seen. For the moment more than I keep saying or more than fake news is the sort of devotion media because devotion media have been really very active into supporting the far right and trying also to attack a manual back home you know in the 1st time they try to a day implied that he was gay after that today where he says that he was. The bank or child which was of course a sort of they've done. But again we have not even a 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 my club I don't know do you think it's where it's putting something like that could sway the election I mean how close to see it . For the moment you are born as a 6040 percent according to polls but I our political life is so polarized that this result depends a lot on. His voters from the left and voters from the right choosing Michael and it's so polarized that I'm I'm a beat where we did that a lot of them should decide to abstain she may win you know all the poorest and all the because creations may show that she may win is there is a massive absentia. 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 anon created 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'm going to call my family members and tell them what I often experience this 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 wanted to know 100 days later what can we say the women's March has accomplished for more we asked N.P.R.'s Daniel 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 fronting the women who organized the women's March afterwards continued 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 Congress and we are heading home yes so we've certainly seen that and aside from that you've 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 you know 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 or. Each out to them and say they want they're interested in running for office now they compare that to the last cycle the 2016 cycle where they said they had 900 s. It's 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 sparked a 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 likened trying to be an activist during the trumpet ministration 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 is 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 Democrat Slaven 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 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 oddly 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 Menards 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. No one wanted to do this so of course the lens in the hands of an immigrant is how it always goes down so there was programming presidential counter-programming and then some counter counter programming was. 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 something for everybody tonight I love you thank you thank you thank you thank you Farai also play us out what does that mean players out there are. Going to was. And you're listening to n.p.r. News. 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On Trial Snyder with these headlines authorities in the small East Texas city of Canton say several people were killed dozens of others taken to hospitals following last night's weather the National Weather Service has confirmed 3 tornadoes touched down in the region the governors of Assyria in Oklahoma have declared states of emergency because of flooding and damaging winds flooding has also been reported this weekend in Illinois in Arkansas and President Trump is back at the White House after marking his 100th day in office with a rally in Pennsylvania and Harrisburg last night Trump defended his administration's accomplishments and slammed the news media as reporters gathered for the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner in Washington d.c. I'm Joel Snyder n.p.r. News from Washington. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. Member stations and from Tait's bakeshop whose founder Kathleen King started selling her handmade chocolate chip cookies from her dad's farm stand in the Hamptons as a child now it markets nationwide gift baskets or it takes bakeshop dot com from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation supporting 0 to 3 and working to ensure that all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life learn more it think Babies dot org And from the John s. And James l. Knight Foundation helping n.p.r. Advance journalistic excellence in the digital age. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News I'm Luke Garcia Navarro This weekend marks 25 years since the riots that consumed Los Angeles for 5 days after a jury acquitted 4 l.a.p.d. 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 the streets the media industry has changed drastically over the past decades if a riot 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's a white man and then there were 3 or 4 assistant city editors I was a staff writer at a mid-size newspaper and the team that I was a part of that went was comprised of myself an African-American woman and a white woman reporter she was actually in 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 later 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 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 saw all 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 where the rights on your radar told you remember them you know they definitely were on my radar the Rodney King video you know that was really kind of as cable news was really coming into the column 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 thousands of miles away and so you know if you were a black person in America you had seen that Rodney King video more familiar they were horrified by it and you were interested in Augusta and the outcome of that trial and you covered Ferguson when you listen to Amy talk about some of the things that happened to her 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 how being African-American helped or didn't help when you're covering that kind of situation sure I think that when you do have this racial tensions that explode between a community and local law enforcement certainly the l.a. Riots in the minds of that community and law enforcement know they don't want that situation repeated and so you know that tension was present in Ferguson when the grand jury decision came down Ferguson a better time a fair chance people you know were trying to urge folks to remain calm and to not be violent and I think that there definitely were some of the ghosts of the l.a. Riots present in that conversation and kind of going into that grand jury decision there were definitely a lot a lot of black on the ground in for the fact early on and frankly a lot of and you know had been prompted the hash media to recognize that this was going to the actual story than it needed to be. Ground for a story 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 an immediate aftermath about whether their lack of input allowed the upset to spread 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 the 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 were 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 would pay was not that they necessarily had the voiceless that if they had been around her in cities by for a fact often more I mean the cities didn't really register on national crasher before these police and off going to happen and so while there may have been some attention kind of on a local level nationally before that a pure shooting in and really kind of I cover he was you for the 1st time I know you have a lot of voters really kind of astonished you. About the level of racial tension in the heart of America you know the Midwest is not a place where a lot of Americans frankly of their own that racism is a problem that people you know nothing new to the people who have been living there Amy there was a lot of conversation about how the media did after the l.a. Riots How did you think the coverage did 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 putting a loaded language in 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 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 good have a pretty diverse group of journalists who are on the ground for 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. A color. Unfortunately have been in the scenario multiple times in multiple cities and a cash you years and so there have developed a sort of a macabre experts on these issues that I think does help improve the coverage and frankly social media is cross correcting a lot of these stories in real time Amen and 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 I'll start with you it's if you have. And after checks and balances in terms of diversity of thoughts experiences which you know means people from different economic backgrounds different parts of the country geographic diversity different age ranges you have a better chance I think of being able to sort of have someone put their hand up as the stories 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 I said you know obviously they're treading on you know from one background the various pressure either make up from a background that is going from form how they just had to have a question I was fired I definitely felt like you know being a collector or asking either Haiti or a grandma career I've always you know written about the affection of life and if you get America Heidi and so I'd be proud of that you know every black woman Amy Alexander and Aaron wax thanks so much both of you for joining us today thank you thank you. Cassini'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 because he is having a big finish what's it up to well we decided to go out in grand style there when there was still a lot of verb 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 with us and our. We have basically come to intimately know this incredibly phenomenologically rich planetary system a kind of the promised land in our solar system we have come to intimately know it now and it has to show know so many things but the thing that I get most excited about is that we have found on some small moon called and cell 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 missions progress but it's not what I think our listeners might expect the scientists logbook to look like the entries have titles like I dreamed of calling a year of splendor and The Day the Earth smiled It seemed 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 this 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 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 are 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 this. 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 that you know it'll be a relief when it's over I'll go camping and then I'll spend the next 2 years I don't know walking along beaches and of miring 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 there's 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. 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 while as customers with his repair skills I bet so much that the plant only piece in there lately though Goli has not been so cheerful not showing good goalie shop sits in the shadow of Warner Brothers and Universal Studios he says he gets up to half is 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 to come in at all. For 67 months it was just horrible I mean I wasn't sure if I was a stay in business or not yes 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 only in props around or serving food and it's those workers who could be more hurt from a strike than the writers Steve De on 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 I would say that within a very short period of time no one will be working 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 dad 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 a 100 days I don't want to hear it it was a study by the Milken Institute found the walkout cost the state more than $2000000000.00. One of many reasons California tumbled into recession the good news is the state is in much better economic save 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 will see its economy weekend already 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. News which is solely responsible for its content to find out more about the books and authors you hear on N.P.R.'s programs go to npr dot org slash books there you'll find author interviews and P.R.'s bestseller list and find out what our staff is reading. This is n.p.r. News. Support for w. On p.r. Comes from f j c a foundation of donor advised funds please to support w. N.p.r. Visit the Web at s.j.c. 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News I'm Luke Arcee in a far off such a Kohls new book of essays begins by talking about anxiety cold she's a culture writer and editor at Buzz Feed grew up in Canada the child of Indian immigrants and she's an irrational 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 skinned privilege and it was such a strange split if out like I was kind of being pulled into 2 pieces of 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 when I take flights 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 the 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 so fair skinned and they touch my skin a lot and there's a part in the book where my aunt asks me she. And use 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 if. I 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 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 of 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 this 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 at . Then you end up giving birth to a stillborn and it was this incredibly detailed really long term plan and they sent this to me and I remember thinking like 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 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 they 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 was 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 and 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 of the i Pad like it is her sibling and it scares me she has no idea how dark things can get there and what advice you're going to give her about moving into this into the 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 and people are saying this about me and this is how it feels 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 like 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 the Jets just terrifying to me like learning to be by yourself without like a buzzing object in your pocket. Here's why you wanted to write this book in this way it's really funny it's irreverent who you're 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're trying 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 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's such a cool 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 all of the things I do. And say here you. See. It's. 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 different 18 year marriage and all the major joins us now from our London studios welcome to the program hi hi how are you I'm very well I heard you bought a nice leather jacket I did I did I got the times of the interview wrong and I meant oh no I must go said I must. Tell my money all right you've said about this album it's all in there are 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 Soto for you know it 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 know that there's a musical record of what you may have been going through in a way yes well when I wrote my 4th it's fine because you don't really think anybody's going to hear it in a way. I want to get. Away or. People might. Almost. Say what I want. To record. On this one I mean I wrote over the years I wrote about. My marriage break up was in there but then I'm. Feeling guilty for being. Different experience in your forty's than in your. New things about you. And that's why I came up but how bad can the good be. I like to give our listeners who may not be familiar with your earlier style a sense of what it was of rockabilly Imelda So let's hear just a little bit of Johnny got a boom boom. Boom. Boom. Boom. I. Think. You've mentioned this that you feel that you wanted to get back to something more authentic or something more central 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 I am both. Both. I love rockabilly I'm part of the reason why I went so headfirst into it was I started off to influence and jazz and roots music and doubling the commitments is like my life you know the film and yes it was almost exactly like that and I was in pubs and clubs and jamming with my friends and like it's a 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 is great but get rid of the rockabilly really it's a death Yes Wow And that made me want to do it more one Jon Kyl and a meal but the other was I wondered why such an influential music was so shunned when you know everybody from the Beatles to Jimmy Page and they all tell you they want to be welcome police 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 I got to a point where it became this and that I'm a you know and the letter Ok and rockabilly Carol I'm no artist wants to be wrapped up with a bow like that I was fascinated to find out that you do all of your back Ok let's listen to back to the Arab . Such a great tune Thank you. Chad I am. Doing on backing vocals why why why why do that because she. I'm not going to answer that. Which is also why I produced my own my course. Little studio thing to write well could I do like to put in the folder pay everybody like I did use my own records and I did all my own back with both of. My sister time and needs when I was 4 years old she brought me to church and got me to sing record and I try all kinds of things with textures noises and little things like even the hidden Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you know kind of get a little weird textures in a trice all kinds of things and I I did a gospel choir on one it's my time and I tried to make my sound slightly different and I I named the mall I am so it was easier to mix I was going Can we go back to Gladys and I was glad of the of the world I named my different voices your multiple personality of backing vocals I love yeah I loved it I just find it so much fun I just currently 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 what is the song. I always write down you know little tiny notes and in this book choruses of Versailles like. Tears about a time that it was a long goodbye and it was a heartbreaking goodbye and I saw a reflection of myself in a mirror and my face was black stream and my mascara running and I just. And so. Does my. Crush. Makes me want to break out the whiskey and meld amaze new album is called Life Love the flesh blood thank you so much for speaking with us today thank you very much for taking the time. Of National Public Radio I think it's a great concept Thank you. This is Weekend Edition from n.p.r. News thanks for listening and the. Support for n.p.r. Comes from n.p.r. 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