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This is our body politic.

I'm the creator and host, Farai Chidea.

On the show today, we examine the public health challenge of serving Afghan refugees,

and we ask our public health contributor to update us on all things, vaccines.

My next guest is a black woman who's challenging her choices in the two-party system by seeking office.

Princess Blanding is running in Virginia's race for governor as a Liberation Party candidate.

Her opponents are Democratic candidate and former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe and Republican candidate Glenn Yonkin, a businessman and former CEO of the private equity firm, the Carlisle Group.

Princess Blending is an educator, a science teacher, and founded a community organization for police reform called Justice and Reformation with her family, after her brother was shot and killed by police during a mental health crisis in 2018.

She joins me now to tell me more about her

run for governor and how she defines her own political position in this race and broader U.S.

politics. Welcome, Princess. Thank you so much for having me. We appreciate you making time,

and I'm going to just jump right in with the story about your brother, Marcus David Peters,

who was shot and killed by the Richmond police in 2018. He was unarmed and experiencing a

mental health crisis. So how did that tragedy affect your engagement in politics?

Absolutely. So yes, Marcus David Peters was my brother,

and he was a teacher at Essex High School where I served as a school administrator. And so my

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