Hey there, it's the N. Parapolitics Podcast, I'm Scott Detro, I cover the White House.

And I'm Wanna Summers, I cover politics.

And Wanna, today we have something different, we have your interview with John Legend.

I think a lot of listeners obviously know John Legend as an egot winning musician and

performer, or maybe as the husband of Chrissy Teigen, and maybe they've probably seen him

campaign for candidates like Joe Biden.

But you had an interesting conversation with him about something different that he's doing

within the realm of his political activism, and that is his push to support progressive

candidates in local prosecutor's races.

Yeah, that's right.

So this is a part of John Legend's free America campaign.

And his goal with that whole campaign is to reinvision and to overhaul the criminal

justice system and people's experiences in it.

And he points out that these district attorneys, these local prosecutors play such a huge role

in the way that people interface with that system.

So he's been on Twitter, he's been endorsing these candidates, and urging people to get

involved in these races that frankly, they don't often get a lot of attention.

Yeah.

And are there any trend lines in the types of candidates that he's backing?

Yeah, so the types of candidates that John Legend is drawing attention to are largely

women and people of color.

And that's something he says that's incredibly important because, and we should just be

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