Jessica Henwick & Lin-Manuel Miranda To Appear On “ABC News Live Prime With Linsey Davis”
Disney has announced the lineup for new episodes of “ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis”, which is your primetime news source for context and analysis of the day’s top stories. In-depth reporting and storytelling from across the country and around the world, hosted by Linsey Davis.
Highlights of the week include the following:
- Monday, July 13 — Actress Jessica Henwick (“Silo”); Prime Focus, featuring Steve Osunsami, highlights Native American tribes who are racing against the clock to save their native languages, including the Cherokee who are spending more than $20M each year on immersion schools for their youth and health and housing programs for the elderly who are the last native speakers; All Access with Linsey Davis sits down with Lin-Manuel Miranda for a deep dive on his career on screen and stage and his return to the live-action “Moana”
- Tuesday, July 14 — Daniela Amodei, Anthropic COO and sister of co-creator Dario Amodei, on the company’s efforts to use their AI products to design a library of teaching skills and better analyze student assessment data in order to create curricula targeted to individual students; Prime Playlist sits down with Jason Derulo as he enters a new chapter of his career with his latest single, “Sexy For Me,” and upcoming album, “The Last Dance (Part 1)”; Prime Focus, featuring Patrick Reevell, investigates how Russia is luring Africans with false promises of civilian jobs before sending them to fight in Ukraine
- Wednesday, July 15 — Actress Malia Baker (“Descendants: Wicked Wonderland”); Prime Focus, featuring Steve Osunsami, reports on a difficult chapter of American history by exploring the contradiction between Thomas Jefferson’s declaration that “all men are created equal” and the fact that he enslaved hundreds at Monticello and fathered children with enslaved woman Sally Hemings
- Thursday, July 16 — Prime Focus, featuring Alex Presha, spotlights foster youth who helped create the SOUL Act, revolutionary legislation giving young people in the foster system a voice in choosing their own families
- Friday, July 17 — Guests TBA
The newscast streams weeknights starting at 7:00 p.m. EDT on ABC News Live, America’s No. 1 streaming news channel. ABC News Live is available on Disney+, Hulu, The Roku Channel, YouTube, YouTube TV, Samsung TV Plus, Amazon, Pluto TV, TikTok, ABCNews.com, the ABC News and ABC News Live apps, and more. New episodes are also available for a limited time on Hulu and Disney+ the next day.
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