The End of Online Classes
It’s Tuesday.
Alternate-side parking: In effect until Monday (Memorial Day).
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This September, New York City’s public school students will no longer sit in front of a computer screen for class. Parents won’t have to juggle working from home and helping their children through technical difficulties. Teachers won’t have to remind students to mute themselves on Zoom.
Schools will fully reopen this fall, and remote learning will be eliminated, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced yesterday. The complete return to in-person classes is a major indicator of the city’s economic recovery.
The Post-Embarrassment Media Campaign of Andrew Yang
He once called himself the opposite of Trump. But he is another test of the theory that in politics, there’s no such thing as bad publicity.
Andrew Yang appeared on “Ziwe” on Sunday night to discuss billionaires, music and his campaign to become mayor of New York.Credit.Showtime, via YouTube
May 24, 2021Updated 4:49 p.m. ET
Years from now, when we look back on the history of pop-political interviewing, we may find it quaint that Sacha Baron Cohen had to disguise himself as Borat and Ali G in order to get public figures into uncomfortable situations.
MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:
And finally today, Ziwe Fumudoh - henceforth, she prefers just Ziwe - is a writer and performer with a talent for putting people on the spot. Her YouTube series, Baited With Ziwe, as well as her Instagram Live posts, feature pointed, funny and frequently awkward interviews where she asks her guests, who are mostly white, very direct questions about race and racism. Now she is bringing those comedic chops to late-night television. The show is called Ziwe, and when we visited with her recently, she told us that she got her start in comedy through - wait for it - poetry.
Amna Nawaz:
As America was gripped by nationwide calls for racial justice, Ziwe s work caught on. Hundreds of thousands tuned in.
Do you think that these conversations resonated in a certain way, caught on the way they did because of what we were going through as a country?
Ziwe:
So, I think that the racial uprisings of 2020 really allowed discussing race to be at the forefront of American media. And so that opened people up to having these really intense conversations that ultimately are long overdue.
Amna Nawaz:
Ziwe:
I think, ultimately, it has to be funny. I want people to laugh, because I m a professional comedian.