Hello,

All of us put a little window on our ordinary, extraordinary things

When we get to us in and I believe it

I believe that

Hello somebody

The universe has given us two hands

One to reach a

One to reach our anterner.

Welcome to Hello Somebody, a production of the Black Effect podcast network and IHeartMedia, where we rage against the machine, where we raise our voices against injustice and stand up for justice,

where we embrace hope and joy with an optimism for a bright or more just future.

Each week, I'll be dropping knowledge, whether it's a solo episode from me

or a hearty discussion with esteemed guests doing great things in spaces and places of politics, entertainment, social justice, and beyond.

We get real, baby. I mean, really real. We get honest. We get up close and personal for you, yes you, because everybody is somebody.

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Thank you, Sim, Tiffany, Sam, and the team over at Good Juju Studios, Erica England,

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Hello somebody. Today I want to talk about freedom. I don't know. It's just sticking with me

right now. The whole notion of freedom and how it is expressed,

particularly in American society.

So I'm thinking to myself,

let me just go ahead and go back to some founding documents.

And I said, what better document to start with than the actual

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