Hey, it's Kai. I am jumping into the feed here to give you something super special and well-timed.

So a hundred years ago this weekend in

24 August of 1924 a baby was born in Harlem Hospital.

His name was James Baldwin and of course he would go on to become one of the most

influential writers and thinkers and activists of the 20th century. I mean, really one of the most influential

person of letters in American history.

His ideas and his words just shape

generation after generation of people, queer people, black people, writers, activists, you

name it.

And there's a new podcast coming that really explores this idea, this lineage, this inheritance that James Baldwin has passed down.

It's called Notes on a Native Sun,

which is of course a play on James Baldwin's first essay collection,

Notes of a Native Sun.

And it's hosted by Rasia Iqbal,

who is a professor of journalism at Princeton University.

She joined me in the studio a few days before James Ball

wins official 100th birthday to talk about this podcast,

Notes on a Native Sun. and here's our conversation.

Here's me and Razzia Iqbal.

Notes on a Native Sun.

So this was an idea conjured up by an old friend of mine who is also the executive producer on the podcast Tony Phillips who used to work at WNYC an old old friend of mine.

Shout out to Tony.

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