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Professor Candy, welcome to the Daily Social Distance Show.

It's great to be back on the show.

Yeah, it's good to be back for you, but technically the last time I saw you was in the studio,

a lot has changed since then. I mean, not just the fact that people at home, but the fact that

America has seen so many changes and yet some may argue America has seen so much more of the same.

Your book grows to the New York Times best sellers list during the protests.

And what many people gravitated to in your work was how you laid steps out for people to engage in anti-racism.

Tell me a little bit more about that and firstly, why you felt it was necessary to lay out the steps and the tools that people could use,

and why it's so important to be anti-racist as opposed to just not being racist.

When racial inequity and injustice is normal, if you do nothing,

what's going to happen to that normality? It's going to persist.

And so I really wanted to encourage people to actively challenge racism, but also to realize there's a direct opposite to notions of racial hierarchy.

And that's notions of racial equality, which are anti-racist ideas. There's a direct opposite to policies that lead to a maintained racial inequity.

And that's anti-racist policy. So we can be creating a different type of America with different types of policies and different type of ideas.

A lot of people love your work because you delve into the past and you tie it to the present.

This project is really special because you are editing a book about the history of being African-American.

And yet, instead of just looking at it through the lens of one person, one author, one storyteller, you've gone with multiple stories.

Just everyone from every walk of life who fought for Black Freedom in America, from the slave trade all the way through to the current day.

Tell me why you thought you could re-tell a story that has been told so many times in a different way.

Why did you think I'll jump on this project to edit this book?

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