Welcome to Karen Hunter's awesome. I'm Karen Hunter, and Dr. Rosemary Mealy has been out doing God's

work for the past 45, 50 years helping people through civil rights and activism and education. And when I got to interview

with her on my radio show, she came on with Paul Coates to talk about what's going on in Cuba.

I realized this is a hidden figure. This is somebody we need to know. So I reached out to her and I said,

can we talk? And she said, yes. Not only do we have an amazing interview about

her activism and what got her involved, but we also talk about some life lessons, some things that

she's learned that I think will help us all greatly. These elders know things and we should learn.

All right. Up next, my interview with Dr. Rosemary, Mealy. Stay tuned.

So first of all, thank you for joining me. I felt like we didn't have

enough time and I want to sit under your feet and learn as we are in a period of time that, you know,

they say history rhymes. I think we're in another iteration without being prepared. But I imagine

you guys as Black Panthers, you know, teenagers in early 20s, who prepared

you? Well, I think my preparation came from, you know, how I grew up my environment. I grew up in

the southern part of the U.S. where I experienced this is in the latter part of the 50s and

early 60s.

So I knew racism.

I lived it.

I hated it.

And so I was always rebelling against it.

And I would find ways to do that.

So my father, who was a member of the NAACP, which in that part of Virginia or in the south anywhere, that would be considered

a radical organization. But I think observing him, taking people to the polling places, having him

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