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Speaker 1: Hey, this is standing and Samantha, you're welcome to stuff.

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Speaker 1: I never told your protection to iHeart radio. Yes, and

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Speaker 1: it is February third, two, my least favorite month to

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Speaker 1: stay out loud because whoever created this month really wanted

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Speaker 1: to see how ridiculous I sounded trying to say it

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Speaker 1: on the micpcreate it. But it is also Black History

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Speaker 1: Month in the United States, and though we do typically

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Speaker 1: like to focus more outside of the US for women

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Speaker 1: around the world, because you know, the world, we didn't

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Speaker 1: want to do a quick roundup of a few of

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Speaker 1: the amazing black women in the US, and we wanted

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Speaker 1: to celebrate who they were and what they were doing.

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Speaker 1: But let's be honest, this should be celebrated all day,

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Speaker 1: every day, um, and not just for one month, which

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Speaker 1: happens to be the shortest month at that. But that's

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Speaker 1: where a different the show entirely, I know. So we

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Speaker 1: did want to do a quick feature on a few

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Speaker 1: of the women of the US, and I promise we

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Speaker 1: will be going back to women around the world, no worries, Yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: no worries. We wanted to start with Nicole Hannah Jones,

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Speaker 1: who is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author. She

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Speaker 1: has been a fierce advocate in racial justice and equality

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Speaker 1: and has been no stranger to controversy within the United

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Speaker 1: States with the continued outcry against critical race theory, which

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Speaker 1: has become a political hotbed. Hannah Jones has been pushed

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Speaker 1: into the limeline with her work and activism, specifically with

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Speaker 1: projects like the sixteen nineteen Project, which examined the history

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Speaker 1: of slavery in the United States. In the sixteen nineteen project,

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Speaker 1: there was a reexamination of the legacy of slavery in

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Speaker 1: the United States at the anniversary of the sixteen nineteen

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Speaker 1: arrival of the first enslaved people to Virginia. Quote. This

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Speaker 1: framing challenges the idea that American history began with the

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Speaker 1: signing of the Declaration of Independence in seventeen seventy six,

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Speaker 1: or with the arrival of the Pilgrim's sixteen twenty. The

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Speaker 1: project has been expanded to podcast, more articles, books, and

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Speaker 1: even a docuseries on Hulu, and she said about her project, quote,

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Speaker 1: people are hungry for this information. They want to have

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Speaker 1: a better understanding of their country and its most vexing problems.

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Speaker 1: The expansion across platforms is critical because it allows us

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Speaker 1: missing understandings that will hopefully move us to become a

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Speaker 1: more just country. And of course when she earned her Pulitzer,

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Speaker 1: they stated, quote sweeping, provocative and personal essay for the

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Speaker 1: groundbreaking sixty nineteen project, which seeks to place the enslavement

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Speaker 1: of Africans at the center of America's story, prompting public

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Speaker 1: conversation about the nation's founding and evolution. And it's not

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Speaker 1: her only recognition. She's also a MacArthur Grant Fellowship, winner

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Speaker 1: Time Magazines at one one and in double a CP

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Speaker 1: Image Award for Social Justice Impact Right. And when we

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Speaker 1: were talking about her being in linelight, she had been

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Speaker 1: denied at u n C her school for tenure, which

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Speaker 1: caused a huge uproar because it was definitely a racial

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Speaker 1: lot of criticism as to the sixteen nineteen project by

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Speaker 1: a lot of conservatives. She was eventually given the teenership

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Speaker 1: and rejected it and went on to go to Howard

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Speaker 1: University and I believe that's where she is today. But

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Speaker 1: of conversation that happened in the United States and again

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Speaker 1: where we are today politically, which is not pretty, especially

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Speaker 1: when it comes to critical race theory and what it is,

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Speaker 1: again another conversation. But moving on, we wanted to talk

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Speaker 1: about joy and Bland, who is a social and racial

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Speaker 1: justice activist who has been doing this work since being

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Speaker 1: a young child. At eleven, she participated in the march

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Speaker 1: in Selma and witnessed the injustices of what we know

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Speaker 1: now as Bloody Sunday. She later joined the Student nonviol

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Speaker 1: the sixties and continue her activism since then. Today, she

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Speaker 1: is the owner and operator of Journeys for the Soul,

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Speaker 1: which is quote a touring agency that specializes in civil rights.

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Speaker 1: Tours were the major focus on the Selma, Alabama. All

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Speaker 1: the guys are participants of the voting right struggle and

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Speaker 1: each share their unique personal accounts of their involvement. The

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Speaker 1: tours are designed to give you a front row seat

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Speaker 1: to civil rights and empowerment, to be involved in your

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Speaker 1: local communities elections, and most importantly, to understand why it

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Speaker 1: is important for you to use your right to vote

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Speaker 1: and that was all from that site, Journeys for the Soul,

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Speaker 1: So you definitely should check that out. And she isn't

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Speaker 1: stopping there. She plans to create a Foot Soldiers Park

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Speaker 1: and education center where the march began. And about her projects,

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Speaker 1: she said, quote, my vision is to show every visitor

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Speaker 1: and especially every child, that they have the power to

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Speaker 1: Powerful and she's probably one of the most experienced in

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Speaker 1: experiences in civil rights activism and her position as the

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Speaker 1: founder and director of the National Voting Rights Museum in Selma, Alabama,

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Speaker 1: And then we wanted to talk about Leah Thomas, who

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Speaker 1: is an environmental and social justice activist. She is the

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Speaker 1: founder of Intersexual Environmentalist platform. She describes herself as a

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Speaker 1: quote eco communicator in an article written for The Columbia

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Speaker 1: Climate School. They described Thomas's work, which quote emphasizes environmental

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Speaker 1: justice and the convergence of environmentalism with social justice issues,

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Speaker 1: term intersexual environmentalism, and an Instagram post which went viral.

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Speaker 1: She explains this as quote an inclusive version of environmentalism

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Speaker 1: that advocates for both the protection of people and planet.

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Speaker 1: In her in Style article which and by the way,

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Speaker 1: we got these names from their article bad Ass fifties

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Speaker 1: so really cool, she is quoted as saying, I want

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Speaker 1: that people of color will no longer face the brunt

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Speaker 1: of climate injustice. Um and I think we've talked about

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Speaker 1: this before in our environmental and Feminism episode, but how

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Speaker 1: it does affect along those lines and why we need

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Speaker 1: So we need to make sure that we are paying

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Speaker 1: attention the intersectionality of what environmental issues are. And she's

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Speaker 1: releasing her first book, UH, The Intersectional Environmentalist How to

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Speaker 1: Dismantle Systems of Oppression to protect people plus planet, and

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Speaker 1: it should be released in March of this year. And yes,

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Speaker 1: so we're gonna be putting that on our book club episode.

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Speaker 1: Definitely on our list because I'm excited to see that,

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Speaker 1: because that is an amazing amount of work. And you

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Speaker 1: guys should go and look at her side green Girl

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Speaker 1: Lea dot com. She's got some amazing information and just

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Speaker 1: a conversation about her upcoming book. And I think it's

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Speaker 1: So intersectional environmentalists is now going to be in my repertoire. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's hugely important and I'm very excited

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Speaker 1: to read this book. I'm excited to talk about all

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Speaker 1: these women so amazing just the sampling of the the

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Speaker 1: work that they've done. Please, listeners, you know, we love

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Speaker 1: suggestions of people. We should be talking about um books,

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Speaker 1: we should be reading resources, all of it. Please send

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Speaker 1: it's to our supers Christina, who is also a badass

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