18. Finding Hope with Akilah Hughes

The Secret Lives of Black Women

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🗓️ 19 December 2019

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Charla started this podcast in hopes to have conversations she wanted more of when it felt like the country was falling apart. Talking to fellow black women has given both Charla and Lauren hope. Writer, producer and host of Crooked Media’s What A Day podcast, Akilah Hughes says that her hope comes from the local level. Akilah dishes on what she thinks the democratic party needs, where she’s specifically found joy and her personal journey along the way. You can find more about The SLBW at https://www.instagram.com/theslbw/ Follow SLBW on Twitter and Instagram @theslbw Find Akilah Hughes @AkilahObviously on Twitter and @akilahh on Instagram

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0:00.0	Decency only matters if decency matters to you.
0:04.0	So you can go ahead and be the person who says,
0:07.5	here are the principles that America was founded on.
0:10.0	If half the country doesn't give a shit about that,
0:12.0	then you can go ahead and lose and feel good about it
0:16.8	while they're still ruining people's lives.
0:19.8	Like if Donald Trump gets elected,
0:21.4	you can't just say, well, you guys messed up and now you just have to watch it happen.
0:24.4	Like, how do we fight back?
0:25.6	How do we fight back?
0:26.3	And we're in it, and no one's telling us out of my back.
0:29.9	But what does give me hope is on a smaller scale in more local sort of capacities people have
0:37.6	woken up.
0:40.2	This is the secret lives of black women.
0:42.2	I'm Charlotte. and I'm Lauren and today we are talking about how to
0:50.4	get through this mess that we are which is maybe the end of the world and the
0:54.9	democracy as we know it our current political climate and this is a subject
1:02.4	that you and I have been wanting to talk about and we'll talk about a lot over the course of this
1:07.2	podcast for a while hopefully.
1:09.2	Hopefully.
1:10.2	Especially because the 2020 election is coming up.
1:13.1	And full disclosure, this episode is being recorded
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