You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 6, Episode 7, the untold story of Rosa Parks.

Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home. First

name basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your family

and a change maker in your community. Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the

answers to create the world we want, a world that reflects our values of inclusion,

compassion, and courage. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be on this

journey with you. Hello, First Name Basis, fam. I am so glad you are here. And I hope that you are staying healthy

because my goodness, you can probably hear it in my voice. I have a cold. Well, I had a cold and then it

turned into a sinus infection, so I'm like so over it. But I hope you're healthy out there and I'm

really excited to share this

untold story episode with you. If you've been here for a really, really, really, really long

time, you might remember this episode. This is actually a replay episode from season two.

It's the untold story of Rosa Parks. And I remembered this episode and wanted to share it with

you because last week was actually Rosa Parks's

birthday. So Rosa Parks was born on February 4th of 1913. And last week I was laughing to myself because

we were supposed to have a birthday party for my sister's girlfriend and everybody was sick.

Like I said, I have a cold. Everybody's had this

nasty cold and my mom had already ordered the birthday cake and so she couldn't cancel it.

So she asked me to go pick it up from the store and we decided to split the cake and just take

some home and eat it and we'll reschedule the party and reorder the cake and eat some more cake

later. But as I was sitting eating this cake with my girls, my two daughters, I thought, well,

we should be celebrating someone. Who can we celebrate? It was February 3rd and I thought,

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