Today On KRPS For Wednesday June 28, 2023
5 AM - 9 AM -
Morning Edition from NPR News
9 AM - 10 AM -
HOST - Dessa (in for Jenn White)
How the opioid crisis is causing grandparents to become caregivers – again.
The U.S. is battling a years-long, devastating opioid epidemic.
Last year saw 79,770 reported opioid-involved drug overdose deaths, a 1.5 percent decrease from the previous year, according to data from the CDC.
10 AM to 11 AM -
Host: Meghna Chakrabarti
A most tolerant little town': The forgotten story of desegregation in Clinton, Tennessee
In 1956, a federal judge ordered the town of Clinton, Tennessee to desegregate its high school.
The unrest that followed tore the town apart. A forgotten chapter in civil rights history.
11 AM to 1 PM -
Performance Today
Host - Fred Child
1 PM to 3 PM -
Classical from the KRPS Library
3 PM - 3:30 PM
BBC World Service Newshour
3:30 PM - 4 PM
Today, Explained from Vox News
Host - Noel King
The third largest employer in North America isn’t a tech giant or a banking behemoth or a big pharma company - it’s a private security firm called Allied Universal.
Coming up on Today, Explained: why Americans have fallen in love with the IDEA of private security, and what the reality looks like.
4 PM - 6 PM
All Things Considered from NPR News
Tipping has become a major source of drama these days...We're paying tips at fast food restaurants, laundromats and even grocery stores.
The pressure consumers feel can be intense. That's on All Things Considered from NPR News.
6 PM - 6:30 PM
Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal
The 13 countries in oil cartel OPEC-plus now control 60 percent of world production.
But it wasn't always that way. How OPEC became OPEC-plus.
6:30 PM to 7 PM
The Daily from the newsroom of the New York Times
Host - Michael Barbaro
Suspicion, Cheating and Bans: A.I. Hit's America's Schools
Since its introduction less than a year ago, ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence platform that can write essays, solve math problems and write computer code, has sparked an anguished debate in the world of education.
Is it a useful research tool or an irresistible license to cheat?
Stella Tan, a producer on The Daily, speaks to teachers and students as they finish their first semester with ChatGPT about how it is changing the classroom.
7 PM - 8 PM -
HOST: Tonya Mosley
INTERVIEW BY: Tonya Mosley
Educator AIDAN KEY discusses his new book “Trans Children in Today’s Schools.
It’s an exploration of the ways school systems, educators and parents can support transgender children -- in the age of fear and political backlash.
8 PM - 9 PM -
Jazz Inspired with Judy Carmichael
Guest - Nate Najar
9 PM - 11 PM
11 PM - 5 AM Thursday
BBC World Service
