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Jun 2020
31m 51s

‘I Want To Touch the World’

The New York Times
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This episode contains strong language. Nearly 30 years ago, George Perry Floyd Jr. told a high school classmate he would “touch the world” someday. We went to the funeral in Houston of an outsize man who dreamed equally big and whose killing has galvanized a movement against racism across the globe. Guest: Manny Fernandez, The New York Times’s bureau chief ... Show More
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