Google Talks Demo
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Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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Welcome to the talks at google podcast where great minds meet. I'm Brianna bringing you this week's episode with journalist Belda Davis talks at google brings the world's most influential thinkers, creators makers and doers all to one place. Every episode is taken from a video that can be seen at youtube dot com slash talks at google. Belda. Davis is a history maker, an award winning journalist and a pioneering feminist. She has traveled the world reporting on politics, terrorism, racial and gender issues and the role of art and culture and increasing human understanding from her hardscrabble beginnings in the deep South. During the great Depression, she broke into journalism and made the move from segregated newspaper to radio work, becoming the first black woman hired as a commercial television news reporter on the west coast. She has anchored at three major network affiliates CBS NBC and PBS. She currently hosts a highly respected political affairs program on KQED TV in san Francisco, the most watched public Tv station in the United States. Her book Never In My Wildest Dreams is an absorbing memoir that traces the trajectory of an extraordinary life and extraordinary times. Davis covered many of the most explosive stories of the last half century, including the birth of the black panthers, the people's temple cult that ended in the jonestown massacre, the assassinations of George Mosconi and harvey milk, the onset of the AIDS epidemic and the terrorist attacks that first put Osama bin laden on the FBI's most wanted list. Along the way she encountered a cavalcade of cultural icons, Malcolm X frank Sinatra James Brown nancy, Reagan Muhammad Ali Alex, Haley, Fidel Castro and others. Originally published in May of 2011. Here is Bellevue Davis never in my wildest dreams, a black woman's life in journalism. Welcome to the talks at Google podcast where great minds meet. I'm Brianna bringing you this week's episode with linguist and author, John McWhorter talks at Google brings the world's most influential thinkers, creators, makers and doers all to one place. Every episode is taken from a video that can be seen at youtube dot com slash talks at google linguists have been studying black english as a speech variety for years, arguing to the public that it is different from standard english, not a degradation of it. Yet false assumptions and controversies still swirl around what it means to speak and sound black in his first book devoted solely to the form, structure and development of black english linguist john McWhorter clearly explains its fundamentals and rich history while carefully examining the cultural, educational and political issues that have undermined the recognition of this transformative and empowering dialect. His book talking back talking Black takes us on a fascinating tour of a nuanced and complex language that has moved beyond America's borders to become a dynamic force for today's youth culture around the world. Originally published in january of 2018, here is john McWhorter talking back talking black