Why didn't they tell me I was black? Part 1
Lives Less Ordinary

Why didn't they tell me I was black? Part 1

B1IntermediateOctober 12, 202639 min
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Lacey Tezino grew up in rural Texas in a white family, and was told her Hawaiian mother died when she was a baby. But none of this was true. Lacey was born in the US city of Houston, raised by her single dad who ran a bar there, and whom she adored. When he developed cancer they moved back to live with his parents in Vidor, Texas, a so-called 'sundown town' notorious for its racist past. Nearly everyone there was white, and Lacey says she regularly heard the strongest racial slurs being used both by her white...

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. Part of why I blew the whistle was I didn't want to lay in bed in 20 years, having seen another million people die and know that I could have done something when, when I had a chance.

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This week on The Interface, we're talking to Frances Houghgan. The Facebook whistleblower who leaked the documents that changed how the world saw social media. And now she is the subject of Erin Sorkin's latest movie, The Social Reckoning.

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So join me, Thomas Germain. And me, Jess Maddox, for the interface. I'm No, no, no, no.

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