1. Did you know? Zócalo has NINE finalists for the upcoming @LAPressClub’s 65th Annual Southern California #journalism awards on June 25! 🎉 To celebrate, we’ll be highlighting them over the next week. View 🧵to read about them:
@LAPressClub 2. In @LAPressClub’s FAITH/SPIRITUAL REPORTING category, we have “Keeping the Kids’ Faith” by religion journalist Jim Hinch (@JimKHinch), who considers the support kids need to survive—and even thrive—during struggles such as the COVID-19 pandemic. zps.la/3UCv74S
@LAPressClub@JimKHinch 3. Looking at mental health research and his own family’s experiences, Hinch suggests that "a loving, welcoming religious community" can help teens and young children guard against an array of mental health challenges.
@LAPressClub@JimKHinch 4. “As a parent, I marveled at our kids’ resilience. As a journalist, I wondered where it came from.” Read Jim Hinch’s essay on how religion and faith can play a role in teen mental health: zps.la/3UCv74S
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We’re live at the 13th annual Zócalo Book Prize event, “How Does a Community Save Itself?” Join us as we celebrate Michelle Wilde Anderson (@MWildeAnderson), and discuss her winning book “The Fight to Save the Town” with @CoCoSouthLA’s Alberto Retana.
Before we get started, get to know tonight’s speakers in our virtual green room:
Brownstein spoke with us back in October about the book that changed his life in college, the song that changed his life in high school, and what’s inspired him in the last year: zps.la/3d6FxF6
"Each day, I summon the words they need to survive this plague, and cling to my dough."
Telephonic Tagalog interpreter @marivisoliven translates conversations between doctors and Filipino patients—while stress baking, she writes in our latest #WhereIGo: zps.la/3azHeL8
In the last year, the uptick of COVID-related calls led Soliven to bake so much that her stand mixer broke down.
In her essay, Soliven takes us through a conversation she interpreted in July 2020 between a doctor and an elderly Filipino patient suffering from COVID pneumonia.
@julianbarnes covers our nation’s intelligence agencies for the @nytimes. He called into the virtual green room to chat about why the whoopie pie belongs to Maine, his COVID guilty pleasure, and life (and death) as an amateur chicken farmer: zps.la/32CZEGT
Back in 2014, Barnes wrote an essay for us describing the time a fox got into his chicken coup—and how the Pentagon officers he covered at the time watched the security video and commented on his coup’s “force protection measures.” zps.la/3pqSQFM
This election season, we’ve been focusing on stories that bring perspective to the state of American democracy. From takes on India to El Salvador, Machiavelli to “American Horror Story,” these pieces offer a fresh lens on tonight.
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Last Tuesday, @joemmathews processed how “peculiar and personal” the stakes of this election are for him—in that the results may determine which of his two old friends ends up on the U.S. Supreme Court:
On Thursday, historian W. Scott Poole (@monstersamerica) wrote about how the horror genre is experiencing a “global renaissance” thanks to the “politics of wounded rage” propelling the real world.
In India, there is no such thing as Election Day. “Democracy, unlike candy, does not come out of a vending machine delivering instant gratification,” Roy contends.
It took 11 million election officials over a month to conduct the 7 phases of India’s 2019 general election.
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The stages allow security and electoral officials to follow the election around the country as different regions vote. Even when it takes a week for the winner to be announced after the last polling day, Roy writes, Indian voters don’t lose faith in the value of their vote.
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