2025-06-10
24 分钟It's Tuesday, June 10th.
I'm Jane Koston, and this is What A Day,
the show that is paying tribute to the great Sly Stone,
who passed away Monday at the age of 82.
To quote Questlove, who directed a recent documentary about the music luminary,
he dared to be simple in the most complex ways,
using childlike joy, wordless cries, and nursery rhyme cadences to express adult truths.
His work looked straight at the brightest and darkest parts of life and demanded we do the same.
On today's show,
National Institutes of Health researchers rebuke the Trump administration in a public letter.
And why King conspiracy theorist Alex Jones supports a private company mining your data for the federal government to use.
But let's start by talking about race.
In 2025, that's become a weird thing to do.
And you've noticed it, right?
How the companies and personalities who were happy to talk about race and discrimination five years ago,
after the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery,
and Breonna Taylor, would suddenly rather do literally almost anything else.
Funny how that works.
For their part, the Trump administration has decided that diversity,
equity, and inclusion efforts,