Earlier this week, pro-Palestinian protesters blocked traffic on highways and bridges in San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Seattle. The same day, the Supreme Court made it extremely difficult to protest across much of the American South. In this episode, host Brittany Luse looks at the state of protest in America. She sits down with Sandhya Dirks, an NPR reporter who covers race and identity, and Elizabeth Blair, senior arts reporter at NPR. Together they discuss changing attitudes towards protests as well as new anti-protest legislation. Then they play a game of But did you know that?
After that, we return to OJ Simpson and his impact on culture. Brittany is joined by NPR’s Mandalit Del Barco and Eric Deggans to hear their story of how OJ changed media and television as we know it. He’s had an outsized influence on everything from true crime to TMZ to the Kardashians.
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