It is Wednesday, January 1st, 2025.

My name is Sam Cedar.

This is the five-time award-winning majority report.

We are broadcasting live to tape steps from the industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal in the heartland of America, downtown Brooklyn, USA.

Yes, it is finally 2025.

2025, hump day.

It is Humpty and every day that passes.

Well, I just want the Trump administration to get started already, so we can just start to

begin to say, like, these are as many, you know, we're chipping away at the days where he's the

president. That's what I mean. Let the countdown begin, but we're really still in the countdown,

still in the countdown to the beginning of the countdown. I know. But I am excited because I'm going to scratch off one day in which I successfully stated what year it was properly.

We'll see.

We'll see.

Maybe we'll have a running tally going forward.

I think my guess is tomorrow, Thursday.

When we are live, I screw it up.

But we still have one more day of our best of of 2024.

We have an extended vacation this year because of the weird, the way that January 1st fell.

On the program today, Dylan Pentegroff is an interview from April of 2024. He is a professor of law and history at the

University of California, Berkeley, author of Before the Movement, the Hidden History of Black

Civil Rights. Helpful to get a sense of how when we look at societal change and progress, there's a change and progress there's a tendency to think that

it happens in any given moment but in fact it doesn't it takes years and years and years of

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