This is a word, a podcast from Slate. I'm your host, Jason Johnson.

Many of us start out our careers with the hopes of changing the world, but you know,

the world and its problems can feel enormous. So how can

activists and ordinary people confront injustice and still find room for joy and

hope? Younger people now we have been having a lot more conversations about our own healing,

about community, and it's kind of pulling people a little bit sooner into this important work and it's becoming a part of the work.

The new book Be a Revolution coming up on a word with me Jason Johnson.

Stay with us. Welcome to a word of podcast about race and politics and everything else.

I'm your host, Jason Johnson.

It's Black History Month, the only time of year when America's ugly racial history and the folks who

were fighting to change the future get natural attention. But the work of

challenging racism is happening 12 months a year and it's being done by professional activists and by those of us who

are pushing for progress in our community, schools, and workplaces.

So how could each of us find a way to confront injustice without losing ourselves in the process.

Our next guest has dedicated her career to finding the answers.

E.jiao Lueo is an activist, self-described Internet Yellerer and best-selling author.

Her books, so you want to talk about race and mediocre, the dangerous legacy of white male America,

are staples of anti-racist reading lists.

Her new book is Be a Revolution,

how everyday people are fighting oppression

and changing the world and how you can too.

And she joins us now.

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