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.

Before we begin, I want to give a special shout out to my team.

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

Pepper Chambers, the Hot One, and my social media team.

I'm sighing the day on this one, you guys, because you all, because I'm about to talk about the

HBCUs and the bomb threats and how I cannot believe in the 21st century, we are still

going through this same shit. And yeah, I said, shit, this is very much reminiscent of what

black folks have had to go through in the 20th century and before. And many of us realize the

bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church by example where those four little

girls got killed church bombed people's lives devastated bombings and threats of bombings of

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