Hey, this is Durey and welcome to Parts of the People.

On this episode we're joined by Tish James who is running to be the next Attorney General

of the State of New York and is the current public advocate in the City of New York.

And then we have the news of me, Brittany Clinton Sam, as usual.

Today is a big day for me because it is the day that my first book comes out.

The book is called On the Other Side of Freedom.

You can get it today wherever you buy books at a bookstore.

You can get it online at Durey.com.

And also tomorrow is the beginning of the tour.

I'll be in 16 cities across the country and this is not a traditional tour.

This is really bringing people together in every city for conversations about where we

been and where we need to go.

At every step I'll be joined by, as a special guest in New York City on Wednesdays of

Term of 5th.

It'll be me, the community in Hassan Manage, the writer, Torey and the poet and activist

Cleo Wei talking about a host of issues and then I'll be on the road having these conversations.

I want to share with you a passage from the book that's in the opening chapter on Hope.

This paragraph is where my heart is right now.

Says, but a belief in tomorrow has never been hollow.

It wasn't hollow to those who fought before us.

We do not stand in the shadows of those who came before us but in their glow.

And that glow exists because they put forth the vision of the future and they fought for

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