I Am Somebody: Remembering Reverend Jesse Jackson feat. Jamal Bryant
Native Land Pod
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🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
On episode 119 of Native Land Pod, hosts Angela Rye, Andrew Gillum, and Bakari Sellers team up with guest-host Dr. Reverend Jamal Bryant.
Pastor Bryant held a groundbreaking joint sermon recently with his wife, Karri Bryant, for Valentines day. They cracked jokes and shared their wisdom for how to make a relationship last, which we’ll pass on to you. Then Pastor Bryant holds space for us as we remember another reverend, Jesse Jackson, who passed away Tuesday, February 17th.
FOR YOUR SITUATIONAL AWARENESS:
Early voting sites are being removed from North Carolina Universities, disenfranchising Black students.
The SAVE Act heads to the Senate, the “Voter ID Law” threatens voting rights.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem says DHS Will Help “Secure” Elections.
The Olympic Village has run out of the 10,000 condoms it supples to athletes.
Five Black surgeons lead the trauma unit at the prestigious Johns Hopkins hospital for the first time.
We dedicate the majority of our show today to Reverend Jesse Jackson. Reverend Jackson had a knack for showing up wherever Black folks were organizing; he showed up for our hosts multiple times to offer his support and mentorship. We’ll hear their personal stories about the reverend and more from his fabled life: Reverend Jackson grew up in poverty before rising through the church to carry on the work of MLK Jr., his mentor. He ran for president in the 80’s (which set the stage for Obama), championed progressive causes that were far ahead of his time, and created broad political alliances that last to this day. His impact cannot be overstated.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | Native Lamb Pod is a production of IHeart Radio in partnership with Reason Choice Media. |
| 0:13.1 | Welcome home, y'all. |
| 0:14.3 | This is episode 119 of Native Land Pod where we give you our breakdown of all things, politics and culture. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm your host, Angela Rye, joined by my co-host, Andrew Gillum and Bacari Sellers, as well as our dear brother and guest co-host for this week, the Reverend Dr. Jamal, I bought the dress, Brian. There's no life. I bought the dress. I bought the dress. I'll be saying that for no reason, brother. I just want you to know. I bought the dress for no reason. It haunts me to this. Oh, man. Get out of here. Welcome, Bishop. Welcome. Welcome. Thank you. I'm glad you for long because I told Carrie, I'm taking the dress now. I'm glad you got dressed up. She can't wear it no more. For the right Reverend that come on the show, I put on my best usherboard outfit |
| 0:57.3 | over here. |
| 0:58.1 | I got my shirt and top. You look like a deacon. You are a deacon. He over there with the stewards. He and the Stewart corner. He needs to be an elder as old as he acts. As old as he X. I'm going to get some coffee shoes. And we are thrilled to jump right into the show. |
| 1:13.3 | We added a new segment. As old as he acts. I'm going to get some coffee shoes. And we are thrilled to jump right into the show. |
| 1:13.3 | We added a new segment, Reverend Dr. Jamal Bryant called for your situational awareness. |
| 1:19.9 | Yes, for your situational awareness. |
| 1:21.9 | And it's always because we have news you can use. |
| 1:24.4 | So we're going to jump right into, in January, the North Carolina |
| 1:27.9 | Board of Elections Advanced Voter Suppression Causes by removing three polling sites on three |
| 1:33.6 | college campuses, Western Carolina University, North Carolina A&T, and the UNC, |
| 1:39.8 | and the UNC Greensboro. Last week, a judge ruled against student plaintiffs refusing to allow the |
| 1:44.1 | schools to retain the schools to |
| 1:44.5 | retain the early voting sites and some students responded in kind. Let's roll the clip. |
| 1:50.0 | You profiled us. You profiled us. You targeted us. You took away our accessibility to vote. |
| 1:56.2 | You took away our accessibility to vote. You took away our accessibility to vote. All the benefit Virginia Fox. Virginia Fox. But you will see us and you will feel us. But you will see us and you will feel us. And you will feel us. I'm Kaye Creekmore and I'm running for the U.S. House in North Carolina's fifth congressional district. Join the movement. Child, they said not only you need to take our bowling site, but we're going to run somebody for office against you. I love to see it, what y'all got? I mean, if somebody who ran, yeah, somebody who ran when they were 21 years old, I'm all four. And people are afraid of young people. Every college campus I go to, I ask one question of everybody when I speak. I say, is there a polling site on your campus? And most elected officials are deathly afraid of having |
| 2:39.3 | young people have polling sites on their campus because they know they're going to show up and show |
| 2:42.8 | out. And so, Kai Creekmore, let me know when we're knocking on doors what we need to do, brother, |
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