Getting to Know Professor Justin McDaniel (Part 2)

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🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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In part two of her series with Professor Justin McDaniel, Karen begins her deep dive of learning his story.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Karen Hunter's awesome.
0:11.2	I am Karen Hunter, and I host a Monday through Friday radio show on Sirius XM.
0:16.1	It's Channel 126, 3 to 6 p.m. Eastern, and I get to talk to some amazing people. One of those folk was
0:22.4	Professor Justin McDaniel. And I did, you know, typical interview. You know, there was an
0:27.7	article that I read, as you heard in the previous podcast. But I was so intrigued. I wanted to
0:33.2	know, like, how did he become this? What happened? Who are his people? Who inspired him? So I reached out
0:42.6	and we had a couple of hour conversation and I'm going to share portions of it here in a couple
0:48.2	of podcasts. But up next is getting to know Justin McDaniel. Who is this man? And how is he able to inspire young people to
0:55.5	read in this day and age? Well, take a listen. I just got an email actually from one of my
1:00.6	listeners with the subject line, Professor Justin McDaniel, wow, exclamation. And she went on to
1:09.4	talk about your conversation with the professor was amazing.
1:12.8	He was such a calming spirit.
1:14.3	I can't wait to hear more from him.
1:16.5	I recently started a book club pumped it by Sky Full of Elephants, which I've been talking about,
1:20.6	Adenazium.
1:22.0	Have you guys done probably too long a book to do in your class?
1:27.0	Yeah, we have a, it has to be under about 340 pages.
1:32.1	Okay.
1:32.8	Okay.
1:33.5	Yeah, that's our upper limit.
1:35.0	But usually around 250 is a sweet spot.
1:38.2	What's the racial makeup of your class?
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