Hey, it's Manouche here, and it's a year now since a man named George Floyd was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis.

And massive protests over systemic racism started happening all over the United States.

Here on the show, at the time, it definitely did not seem right to put out our regularly scheduled programming.

And so we turned to Ted Speaker Clint Smith.

Clint is a writer, scholar, and poet, and he very generously put what America was and is going through in a personal and historical context for us.

It's a passionate and lyrical episode, and we wanted to bring it back this week just as Clint is releasing his new book, How the Word Is Past,

A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America.

Conversations about race and change can be hard.

So thank you for listening again, or for the first time.

We'll be back with a new episode next week.

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