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The Breakfast Club.

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Shalamey and the God, Jess Hilarious, DJ Envy.

Envy is out today, but Lauren LaRosa is in, and we have a very special guest man the host of my favorite cable

news network show Abby Phillips is here good morning I'm always I say Phillips but it's

Philip it's Philip yeah that's okay though everybody everybody puts an S on it it's cool

it does not bother me my friend says it's a sign of respect in our community like Salinas. I don't know. We do that with people. Why do we do that? I don't know. It sounds right. It feels right. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I'm hanging in there. New book out. A Dream Deferred.

Jesse Jackson and the fight for black political power. I'm from South Carolina.

So I completely understand Jesse Jackson and why he deserves all the praise.

But why did you decide to write this book?

I think that there are a lot of people who have no idea that he ran for president, honestly.

And if they know that he ran for president, they probably don't have any idea that he came second in the Democratic nomination in 1988.

So he was the runner up.

And before Obama, there was Jesse Jackson.

And I think this chapter really is more important now than ever.

Back in the 80s, I think people didn't have any way to know that what Jesse Jackson did really mattered in the long term.

But it clearly mattered because had he not

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