Another, but its about creating culture production that offers something thats both excellent in its quality, but also demanding and transformative. I want to give a short example and im going to close with this. So there is an american muslim woman, shes a Grammy Nominated artist, and shes from baltimore, maryland. And she did a cover of a song that came out, i dont know, a year or two ago, by a young White British woman named lorde. And the song that lorde released was called royals. Its like were not royals. And the song many people read of a critique of hip hop culture, in particular in black culture right . And the idea of that all its about is money and bling and theres no substance or meaning to it, right . So she covers the song and is a dope mc and shes an amazing singer. So the song is excellent, right . But she also makes a point, and so i wanted to sort of share the point, one of the points that she makes, right . So she says, we dont know that old true blue blood slave mon
Another, but its about creating culture production that offers something thats both excellent in its quality, but also demanding and transformative. I want to give a short example and im going to close with this. So there is an american muslim woman, shes a Grammy Nominated artist, and shes from baltimore, maryland. And she did a cover of a song that came out, i dont know, a year or two ago, by a young White British woman named lorde. And the song that lorde released was called royals. Its like were not royals. And the song many people read of a critique of hip hop culture, in particular in black culture right . And the idea of that all its about is money and bling and theres no substance or meaning to it, right . So she covers the song and is a dope mc and shes an amazing singer. So the song is excellent, right . But she also makes a point, and so i wanted to sort of share the point, one of the points that she makes, right . So she says, we dont know that old true blue blood slave mon
Welcome back to our studios in washington, d. C. We will head to india to meet its fear this new central bank governor. And looking at latin americas most pressing health issues. President obama says his red lines are the worlds redlines as he takes his campaign for the military action in syria to sweden and russia. I did not set a red line. The world set a red line. Obama repeated his call for punitive military action against the Syrian Government. His administration has been lobbying for congressional backing, and received a boost as the Senate Foreign Relations Panel gave its stamp of approval. More updates later in the program. Radioactive leakage is an ongoing concern in japans fukushima powerplant. Prime minister shinzo abe a is pledging to deal with the problem before the 2020 olympics. Tokyo is in the running to host the games. The fukushima plant has been leaching contaminated water since the 2011 earthquake and soon army. Tsunami. I will be back in 30 minutes with more. Thank
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