LAURA SMITH: Hi Leah, I’m good, how are you?
LEAH: I’m good. Okay, I want to play something for you and I want you to describe what you think it is:
[SPORTS ANNOUNCER AUDIO]
LAURA: Okay so basically it looks like people playing video games…but I don’t totally get it…like there are people talking over it…
LEAH: They’re definitely speaking with an Australian accent.
LAURA: Okay, that’s the problem, it’s the Australian accents. They’re also using words I don’t recognize. It sounds like…play-by-play announcers describing the game?
LEAH: Well you’re pretty much right about that. So, they are video games, and those are play-by-play announcers. Because this is a professional competitive video game! Also known as esports. Which is short for electronic sports.
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City of Berkeley, UC Berkeley, BUSD to host Black History Month events
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Last Updated February 4, 2021
The city of Berkeley, UC Berkeley and Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, have several virtual events planned to celebrate Black History Month, allowing community members to educate themselves on Black history.
Despite the challenges COVID-19 has created for Black History Month programming, campus will host events such as speaker series, film screenings and conversations. Berkeley Unified School District will be teaching students about the Black Lives Matter movement this week.
UC Berkeley’s African American studies department is hosting a “Critical Conversations” speaker series that will celebrate the life of department founder and writer Barbara Christian and explore “abolition democracy.” The African American Student Development, or AASD, office will also moderate a conversation with Me Too movement founder Tarana Burke Thursday.