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Hello and welcome to the B-side for episode 11 of our national conversation about conversations about race, the Black Protests Matter episode.

I'm Tanner Colby and joining me here in Panoply's New York studio are my co-discussant

Raquel Sepeda. What up, what up? And as you may have heard, our regular third co-discussant,

Baratunday Thurston, got some very good news this week. He was named new supervising producer

for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah overseeing all new original digital content. So congratulations. Yay. And a cool way of saying that is

just content boss. Content boss. So Baratundee is still with the show, very much so. But for the next

couple of weeks, he's going to be taking some time off to adjust to his new role. So we will have some

special guests filling in. And this week, one of those special guests is New York Times Magazine investigative reporter and award-winning National Association of Black Journalist of the Year for 2015, Nicole Hannah-Jones.

Yay.

We are so excited.

Oh, my gosh.

And so on our last episode, we covered the Black Lives Matter protests of Bernie Sanders in Seattle, the political and racial maneuvering behind Uber's campaign to expand in New York against Mayor Bill de Blasio. But before we get to that, the other thing we brought up last week was my racial incident from the Time Warner Center.

Almost ignited a race war. I almost started

a race war in the Time Warner Center asking the person sitting next me to please turn off the YouTube

video they were playing on their cell phone. It turned out it was a table of black women,

which I did not know, by the way, they were behind me. I turned around to say, can you please

not play your video? And it provoked an incident where I was silenced and asked not to stereotype them.

And shush what they had to say because they were professional black women having a meeting.

And so we discussed that last week.

And then lo and behold...

Damn, I missed a good one.

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