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Author Ijeoma Oluo’s guide for everyday people trying to fight oppression

Seattle Now

KUOW News and Information

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4.7670 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2026

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Last summer, one of KUOW's Book Club selections was Seattle author Ijeoma Oluo’s 2024 bestseller, Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World – and How You Can, Too. In it, Oluo shows how people across the nation are creating positive change for racial equity within our most important systems – like the media, policing, education, and many more. The aim of the book is educational, but also to inspire direct action from its readers. In the revolutionary spirit of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy, here's KUOW's Katie Campbell's conversation with Ijeoma Oluo.

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Hey, good morning. I'm Paige Browning. Happy MLK Day. This is Seattle Now.

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Martin Luther King Jr. advocated for radical change worldwide. Alongside his civil rights work,

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he was pro-labor and opposed both capitalism and militarism. That revolutionary spirit

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and grand vision are still being built by people like Seattle author,

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Eijioma Aluho. She's the author of Be a Revolution, how everyday people are fighting oppression

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and changing the world and how you can too. It's a 2024 bestselling book showing people

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around the country making change toward racial equity in American systems.

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And readers are challenged to act themselves.

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Last June, KUOW's Katie Campbell talked with EGOMA live at the Seattle Public Library for KUOW's Book Club.

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Today we're sharing that conversation.

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Let's just jump into it, shall we? Beautiful. There was a line in your

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author's note that I think perfectly captured why I wanted to read this book this month.

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