Come to the Present Day (with Nick Brooks)
Pod Save the People
Pod Save the People
4.7 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2023
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
DeRay, De’Ara, Kaya, and Myles cover the underreported news of the week — including essential items invented by Black women, an end to SNAP emergency benefits, movement within the Biden administration, and an homage to ordinary Black life. DeRay interviews award-winning author and filmmaker Nick Brooks about his young adult mystery novel Promise Boys.
News
De’Ara 7 Things You Didn't Know were Invented by Black women
DeRay As SNAP Emergency Allotment benefits end, local food banks prepare for 'hunger cliff'
Kaya Biden’s Semiconductor Plan Flexes the Power of the Federal Government
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Duret. |
| 0:04.0 | Don't go to party with the people. |
| 0:05.0 | This episode, it's me, DR Malz and Kyah, talking about the news that you don't know from |
| 0:09.0 | the past week. |
| 0:10.0 | With regard to race, equity, and justice, and it is women's history month, happy women's |
| 0:15.0 | history month, then I sit down with the world-winning author Nick Brooks to talk about his new |
| 0:19.3 | young adult novel, Promise Boys. |
| 0:21.1 | I loved it. |
| 0:22.1 | The following Nick's work for a while learned a line in this conversation and you have to read |
| 0:26.1 | this book. |
| 0:27.1 | It's such a good young adult novel. |
| 0:28.9 | Here we go. |
| 0:30.9 | Family, welcome to another episode of Pod Save the People. |
| 0:34.2 | I am DR a Balinger. |
| 0:35.6 | You can find me on the Instagram at DR a Balinger. |
| 0:39.6 | My name is Miles E. Johnson. |
| 0:41.2 | You can find me on Instagram in Twitter at Pharaoh Rapture. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm Kaya Henderson at Henderson Kaya on Twitter. |
| 0:49.6 | This is Duret at DR on Twitter. |
| 0:52.5 | Well evidently, over the weekend, a Mr. Chris Rock went on Netflix and said things that |
| 1:01.7 | white people thought were funny. |
| 1:03.5 | Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. |
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