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You're listening to one of the Schimner of Russell Brand, my guest today is Kai Hindy Andrews,

an author and associate professor in sociology and is also doing the first Black Studies degree

anywhere in Europe at Birmingham City University. His research, specialism is race and racism,

his director of the Centre for Critical Social Research, founder of the organisation of Black

Unity and co-chair of the Black Studies Association. His contributed features to the Guardian and his

new book Black Radicalism is out next year. Welcome Kai. Hello, thanks for having me on.

Really great to come on. As you know, my motivation for doing these podcasts is I'm at

so as university, if you're doing it degree, religion in global politics. And I felt like the

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