FREDERICK JOSEPH: The Black Friend

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Envy Media

Society & Culture

4.4 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This week, Katie welcomes Frederick Joseph who is a New York Times Best Selling Author of The Black Friend. Frederick talks about his book and why he wanted to write it and his hopes for it reaching the hands of every person who is wanting to work towards ending racism. He is also an award winning activist and shares his experience raising money and awareness for his community, and the time he went on Ellen. We also discuss the #blackpantherchallenge where he was able to raise over 1 million dollars for children worldwide to see The Black Panther movie. Katie and Frederick also discuss black culture, movies, music and television and also how his mom and fiancé make the best mac and cheese and their plans to start a jazz band, not for real...let’s make this happen.

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a DR Media production.
0:10.6	Welcome to What You're Gonna Love Me.
0:12.8	The podcast where we open the eyes, the ears, and the hearts of anyone who has judged or been judged.
0:19.4	Well, hopefully, I'm your host, Katie Maloney.
0:33.6	Greetings, guys and gals. Welcome back to a new episode of You're Gonna Love Me.
0:39.0	I have, I guess, who I'm really excited to have on. I've been wanting to have a month for a really
0:43.3	long time. He is a writer and award-winning activist. He was on Forbes 30 under 30 list, massively
0:51.7	accomplished. And now he's officially a New York Times bestselling author of his new book,
0:57.2	The Black Friend, Welcome, Frederick Joseph. Thank you for being here.
1:02.1	Thanks for having me, Katie. I really appreciate it.
1:04.2	Congratulations. That has to be such a wild accomplished feeling becoming a New York
1:10.7	instant New York Times bestselling author. Yeah, I mean, it feels good. And honestly, I want
1:16.5	everybody to know that people like yourself had a lot to do with that. So thank you. For those
1:21.3	who don't know, Katie, we sent you a really happy book and not only did you share it, but you
1:27.8	very much used your platform to amplify it in ways that meant a lot. So thank you so much.
1:35.2	Oh, my gosh, it's my pleasure. I want to thank you for writing this book actually, because I
1:39.7	have really enjoyed would be the word, but it's also been very educational and illuminating for
1:47.0	someone like myself to read it. So thank you. And to all of everyone else who contributed their
1:53.5	voices and stories to it, I think it's going to change so many lives. And I want people to read this.
1:58.4	I think it's really important. So I'm more than happy to share it. And also, I found you just on
2:03.6	social media earlier this year. And I feel like I've learned so much from you because of just
2:10.2	the information that you put out there for people that are wanting to really work to be anti-racist.
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