Kevin Powell Doesn't Fight Anymore
Death, Sex & Money
Slate Audio
4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2015
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is |
| 0:02.5 | This is death, sex and money. |
| 0:05.5 | It's like yeah, you're gonna die one day. |
| 0:08.0 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot. |
| 0:11.0 | Where I come from is called doing a hippity-dibb-dibity. |
| 0:14.0 | And need to talk about more. |
| 0:16.0 | Now y'all look money hungry, and that's good. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm Anna Sale. |
| 0:22.0 | And this episode is a little different. I'm Anna Sale. |
| 0:23.0 | And this episode is a little different. |
| 0:25.0 | I talked to writer Kevin Powell in front of a live audience |
| 0:28.0 | here in New York City a few weeks ago, |
| 0:30.1 | and I want to share that conversation with you. I first met Kevin when I was a kid watching |
| 0:35.1 | MTV in West Virginia and getting to know seven strangers who moved into a house and changed |
| 0:40.9 | television forever. Kevin was on the first season of the real world. |
| 0:45.0 | He's also an activist, writer, a chronicler of hip-hop, |
| 0:49.0 | but our conversation focused on his latest book, |
| 0:52.0 | it's called The Education of Kevin Powell, |
| 0:54.9 | a boy's journey into manhood. And it focuses on a part of his past he's not proud of, |
| 1:01.4 | his quickness to anger and violence, including against women. |
| 1:06.1 | I wanted to ask him about that. |
| 1:09.1 | Please join me in welcoming Kevin Powell. |
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