Jessica Phelan

Journalist, editor & sometime broadcaster @RFI_Eng. Back in Paris 🇫🇷 after Rome 🇮🇹, Berlin 🇩🇪 and Fukuoka 🇯🇵

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He put it down partly to the connection to a French family who enslaved his mother's ancestors.

Jones also spent time in 1950s Paris studying under legendary French music teacher Nadia Boulanger, who he continued to talk about for the rest of his life.

https://t.co/xkDYqInK84

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The late, great Quincy Delight Jones on his "ridiculous passion for France".

https://t.co/eiCu9NFfMR

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🇫🇷🇬🇧The #ChannelTunnel linking France to Britain was opened 30 years ago today. But as @JessicaLPhelan reports, it had been in the pipeline for 200 years.
Read all about it. Nice pics too👇https://t.co/2SzlAXS15P via @RFI_En

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Really interesting to compare France's bill to the Crown Act in the United States: the US legislation specifically protects Black hair, while in theory the French version applies to *all* hair because of France's insistence that public policy should be – ahem – "colour-blind".

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#France has taken a step towards passing national legislation against hair #discrimination.
@guylaineconquet hopes the law will "make people talk more about this issue, and no longer be complexed about their hair". By @JessicaLPhelan
https://t.co/HuLNVT5NFC via
@RFI_En

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Be not afraid! The #French language is robust enough to handle change. By @JessicaLPhelan
@TractLinguistes #francophonie24 https://t.co/54lTFf6seE via @RFI_En

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And article here:
https://t.co/AMmE2SMiSj

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Many "WTF France" moments while researching why vasectomies are still rare here, including what one man told me happened when he first asked a doctor about it:

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Full story on the Spotlight on France podcast @RFI_En:
https://t.co/Y3GQbIWQSS

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@PaulMarks12 Truly 🤦‍♀️

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@Mrcarmie I should specify that the man in question did indeed get a vasectomy, very willingly!

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📢 Great opportunity for journalists reporting about development issues with a solutions journalism focus: @soljourno and @ejcnet are offering up to €8,500 for up to 12 projects to be published later this year in France, Germany or the UK.
Details: https://t.co/pl7h5E65Bb

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There's no popcorn but the magic still operates at the #Cinémobile – a cinema on wheels that tours towns across the Loire Valley, delivering thousands of showings to rural communities each year. @JessicaLPhelan reports.
@RCValdeLoire @Ciclic_CVL

https://t.co/4iixuOPlQ7

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Paris has a new road: Rue David Bowie. The French capital this week became the first city in the world to name a street after the late music icon – but why here?
https://t.co/1R9zuM8Mxx via @RFI_En @JessicaLPhelan

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You can also hear some of my interview with space historian Kerrie Dougherty on @RFI_En's #SpotlightinFrance podcast:
https://t.co/ypZw5r34XE

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#OTD Exactly 60 years ago, France sent a cat into space. It was the first country to try it, and it still remains the only country ever to have done so.
How? But mainly: why?!
https://t.co/gE6QEPeD5K

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On the 60th anniversary of her flight, here's to you, Félicette! For the sake of all cats, I'm glad you were the only one.
Read the full story here:
https://t.co/gE6QEPeD5K