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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Affordability and the Black Academic Agenda With Dr. J. Luke Wood

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Bakari is joined by author and president of Sacramento State University Dr. J. Luke Wood to discuss the Black male academic agenda of a potential Kamala Harris administration (3:53), the balance of college affordability and investing in schools (10:51), and creating a Black honors college at his university (14:59). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Dr. J. Luke Wood Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr. Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

0:07.0

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

0:15.0

And welcome to another episode of a car ourselves podcast.

0:18.0

Usually we bring you smart people.

0:20.0

Today we are crossing that off and bringing you somebody who is extremely smart.

0:25.0

Brighter than most, somebody whose resume is amazing. We will get to all of that,

0:30.7

but Dr. J Luke Wood. How you doing, man? of that

0:35.0

the Dr. J Luke Wood.

0:36.0

What's the J for?

0:38.0

J is for Jonathan actually, but I go by my middle name.

0:42.0

I have an identical twin brother and so our parents want our initials to be the same so he's Joshua Leewood. I'm Jonathan Luke Woolen by

0:51.6

Never been called Jonathan. so I was moved.

0:55.0

What did your identical twin brother do?

0:58.0

Let's talk about it.

0:59.0

That's a question I wanted to answer to.

1:01.0

Yeah, so he is the executive director of region business. He represents all the major

1:06.2

construction companies, developers, architects, to local government across the six county

1:11.3

region here. He also has a national supply chain organization that he runs.

1:16.1

Oh, so underachiever, you and your brother, I see.

1:18.0

Yeah, he, yeah, he makes what I do look small,

1:20.8

but that's okay, I love what I do. So look we start each one of

1:24.0

our shows by having our guests walk us through the arc of their careers and as I said

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