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Rosie Perez. (Replay) The Queen of Boxing Talks Politics. Weinstein’s Reckoning. Beating Trump. Mental Health. Why Latino Voters Won’t Vote Socialist. Raise Better Boys.
Rosie Perez has spent her whole life getting back up. From a brutal childhood to an Oscar nomination, from Do the Right Thing to Birds of Prey, from AIDS activism in the Giuliani years to the front row of every big fight, she has refused to be anyone but herself. In this replay conversation, Paul sits down with the queen of boxing to talk about the Weinstein verdict as a historic reckoning, the mental game that decides heavyweight fights and presidential elections, and why so many Latino voters — Cubans, Venezuelans, Mexicans, Central and South Americans who fled dictators — refuse to embrace…
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