Hey there, it's Tanya, and we've got a special bonus in your truth be told feed this week.

It's from our friends at NPR's It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders.

In this episode, Sam talks with author James McBride.

His new novel is Deacon King Kong, which also happens to be

the latest pick for Oprah's book club.

Set in 1960s Brooklyn, the book tells the story of how one man's decision upended an entire neighborhood

Sam and James talk about the parallels he also sees in his book to the world we're living in today.

James is the national award-winning author of the Good Lord Bird in one of my favorites,

his memoir The Color of Water.

Hope you enjoy it, and we'll be back with you next week.

Hey, Sam Sanders here, you are listening to

It's been a Minute from NPR.

So a question I have been asking myself a lot lately

about all this new activism we're seeing right now

is whether it's authentic and it will last.

So I ask that question to my guest for this episode.

Racism has been our Achillesia for a long time.

It's been the cancer that has just been killing us,

and now we want to address the problem. I mean you can't address the cancer until you know you have it and these people are seeing the cancer.

Now not all of them are going to become surgeons, but a lot of them will, you know, enough

that the conversation will change.

That is the voice of the legendary author, James McBride, talking about race and our current moment and throughout this

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