Be a Good Ancestor with Stacey Abrams

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2018

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Get a flu shot, make sure you're registered to vote, and make a vote-by-mail or Election Day plan with friends. We're still raging at the news, while trying to remind ourselves that working for freedom is a lifelong endeavor, and change can take centuries. A bright spot of hope: we talk with Stacey Abrams, who could be Georgia's next Governor.

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Marian Wright Edelman: "Be a good ancestor."

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend.
0:01.7	A podcast for long distance festies everywhere.
0:04.8	I'm Amina Tussaud.
0:06.4	And I'm Antreadman.
0:08.0	You and I were a little down today.
0:09.8	I feel like a lot of people are also down and feeling defeated.
0:13.8	It's okay to take some time out and to feel like you need time to recharge
0:18.0	because there are actually people who do the work in, like, day in and day out.
0:23.2	And I got to talk to one of those people.
0:25.8	Stacy Abrams is on the show today.
0:29.5	And Shiro.
0:30.4	Oh my God.
0:31.2	Shiro.
0:32.0	She is running for governor of Georgia.
0:36.0	And if she wins, she's going to be the first black woman governor in America.
0:59.2	Oh, just met somebody new.
1:07.2	Hi, Anne Friedman.
1:09.2	I would ask how you do it over there, but...
1:12.0	I mean, you can hear it in my voice.
1:13.9	I... it's going.
1:16.0	That's how I'm doing.
1:17.2	Yeah.
	...

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