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Hey Kamala, next in line listeners, I'm Tremendly, MSNBC correspondent

and host of the podcast, Into America.

I wanted to share this week's episode with you because it's all about the little

known history of a place that shaped Kamala's identity, Rainbow Sign,

Black Cultural Center in Berkeley, California that opened its doors in 1971

and welcomed the likes of James Baldwin, Nina Simone, Shirley Chisholm,

and the young, black and Indian girl named Kamala.

Inner memoir, Kamala writes,

Kids like me, who spent time at Rainbow Sign, were exposed to dozens of extraordinary

men and women who showed us what we could become.

I spoke with Odead Poughler, daughter of Mary Ann Poughler, who founded Rainbow Sign,

and also talked to Desi Woods Jones, founder and president of Black Women

organized for political action, about the social and political moment that

gave rise to Rainbow Sign and the impact the center had on Kamala's life.

So, check out this preview. The first voice to hear is Ms. Desi Woods Jones,

describing Black life in the Bay Area in the 1960s and 70s.

So you had a lot of brain poverty, a lot of geniuses,

you had a lot of people who understood that change had to happen.

And so right from the midst of the civil rights movement that was also going on in the south,

there was all of this energy that was also going on in the Bay Area.

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