Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome. I'm Karen Hunter, and in this space, I want you to think

think more deeply about everything that you've been taught, everything that you've learned,

everything you think you know. I know that I've had that

challenged by a couple of folk. First, it was the half has never been told by Edward Baptist.

That made me think about slavery from a completely different perspective. And then I ran into

Howard French, born in blackness. We have featured him on this podcast in this space,

born in blackness. He has a new book this podcast in this space, born in blackness.

He has a new book. It's the second in the trilogy. It's called the Second Emancipation,

Encruma, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide.

Woo, that conversation, this book, I need everyone to read it. But I want you, before you pick it up

and read it, let's sit in

community for a minute and listen to this man, talk about where we are in the world and where

we've been and how we can get beyond this time because we've been here before. The second

emancipation with Howard French up next. The first of four parts of a conversation with this great author, historian, and man.

I'm grateful for Born in Blackness, which is the first of a trilogy, because it lays the

foundation for everything that must come. If you don't read another book listening to me,

born in blackness, go get that right now. You can get it on audio, those of you who struggle with words on a page, get the audio, the audio's decent as well. It's not as good as, you know, reading it because there's maps and it's all kinds. But you've done this again. Connect the dots. So welcome, let me welcome the great Howard French into this space. I'm so grateful that I get to reach out to you.

Very few people are like, I got a question.

You could just reach out to the author,

but he is here to have a conversation.

But more importantly, you put words,

lots of words on a page to tell this story.

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