《上級者向け》今日の英語ニュース☆2024.06.20☆時事英語・ニュース英語を極める☆PBS News Hour

■今日の動画：PBS News Hour June 19, 2024

[ １年前の今日のニュース ]

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■今日の注目語句

[03:57] For more on the impact and implications of all this, we're joined by journalist Jeff Goodell. He's author of the book "The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet." Welcome back to the program. It's good to have you here.

[** 前回登場時： https://note.com/wgc888/n/n5be5ed6dac9e#cb08013b-c01e-4fc6-a69f-024e5f53fbf1 ]

[13:49] And Americans have been honoring the Juneteenth federal holiday, marking the moment in 1865 when word reached the enslaved people of Galveston, Texas, that they were freed by the Emancipation Proclamation. That was two-and-a-half years after President Lincoln issued the decree. The city of Dallas commemorated the event, a two-and-a-half-mile Walk for Freedom. That's an annual March led by 97-year-old Opal Lee, who's widely known as the grandmother of Juneteenth.
OPAL LEE, Civil Rights Activist: I'm delighted, I really am, that so many of you are celebrating freedom. And I don't mean freedom in Texas or freedom for Black people. I mean freedom for all of us.
AMNA NAWAZ: Lee was instrumental in making Juneteenth a nationally recognized holiday in 2021. The day was already celebrated by many Black communities for more than a century.

[** Opal Lee = 以前の番組で詳しく取り上げています
see: https://note.com/wgc888/n/n4cf79f7ea6c8#89520076-bc4f-4578-bb7e-f82e97677034 ]

[29:40] AMNA NAWAZ: After the Civil War, the federal government's pledge of 40 acres and a mule to the formerly enslaved has long been known as a broken promise. But a new investigative report reveals that not only did the government grant land to hundreds of formerly enslaved people; it also took that land back and returned it to white Southerners.

[30:59] AMNA NAWAZ: So a lot of folks have heard this phrase, right, 40 acres and a mule. As you say, a lot of people thought, OK, this just never happened. And your reporting is called "40 Acres and a Lie." What's the truth behind this program? What do people not know?
ALEXIA FERNANDEZ CAMPBELL: What people don't know is that there were -- it wasn't just a promise that was broken. People who received land titles, we found more than 1,250 people who got land titles, men and women, they picked out their plots of land, mostly on the plantations where they were enslaved. Actually, not everyone got 40 acres, which is another misconception. It was up to 40 acres. And then people were living there. They were planting their crops. They were selling them in Savannah. Some of them formed governments, elected a sheriff. They were living their lives, and they lived there for like up to a year-and-a-half before they were kicked off.

[** "40 Acres and a Lie" = see: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/06/40-acres-and-a-lie/ ]

[36:14] GEOFF BENNETT: Now part two of our conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci. Last night, we discussed his experience leading the country through two of the greatest public health crises of our time, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19. Tonight, more on his fraught relationship with former President Trump,

[41:08] DR. ANTHONY FAUCI: You know, I think, to be perfectly honest and humble about it, there was some mixed and perhaps garbled message that came out. It came out, I know, and the CDC even admitted that there were times when the message was garbled for the man and woman in the street.

[43:14] DR. ANTHONY FAUCI: You know, I think it's simple. I think, when you talk about legacy, to me, legacy are for other people to evaluate years from now or maybe a year or two or maybe 10 years from now. What I would like people to know, if they ask me, what do you want me to know about you, is that, without a doubt, I gave it 100 percent, 110 percent every day. And to use a metaphor from sports, I left it all out on the court every day. And that's what I want to be remembered for.

[44:11] GEOFF BENNETT: Finally tonight, we say goodbye to the Say Hey Kid. Baseball great Willie Mays died peacefully surrounded by his family on Tuesday afternoon in the Bay Area, where he's forever remembered as a star of the San Francisco Giants. He was 93 years old.

[45:47] GEOFF BENNETT: Mays was voted into the Hall of Fame in 1979, his first year of eligibility. But his beginnings were far more humble. Born in Westfield, Alabama, in 1931, Mays was the son of a Negro Leagues player, and he started his pro career in 1948 with the Negro League Birmingham Black Barons at just 16 years old. In 1951, he made his Major League debut with the New York Giants, a year he captured National League Rookie of the Year, beloved by fans for his dazzling play, his exuberant smile, and for giving to the game's next generation. Mays would play stickball with children in New York City streets.

[47:38] But when he retired that same year, he looked back on a storied career and knew he'd left nothing on the field.
WILLIE MAYS: The game of baseball has been great to me.

[51:15] HOWARD BRYANT: That's right. Not everyone will protest. Not everyone is a marcher. Not everyone is the one who was going to make those headlines. Willie still had to deal with things. Willie was a rookie in 1951. And during spring training, when the Giants, New York Giants, used to train in Arizona, Willie wasn't allowed to stay with his teammates because Scottsdale was a sundown town. Scottsdale, Arizona, did not allow Blacks after sundown.

[53:59] We have ever so slightly renamed the program "PBS News Hour," with a space between "News" and "Hour," as part of our recent rebranding on air and online.

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• Budapest Memorandum

• smoldering/ in contrast to Jackie Robinson, who was a smoldering player, who was constantly pushing boundaries, Willie was the Black player who was there at the beginning of integration, who didn't force that on you.

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