I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

And welcome to another episode of Bakari's Hellas podcast.

Today I have somebody who has literally done it all.

Let's just start there, but Antonio Hilton is joining us today. First of all, let's talk about this

amazing picture you have behind you. Where are you?

No picture, right?

I'm in my living room. This is a collage that I'm in my living room. This is a collage that I made with a friend and it is basically a bunch of photos from the 50, 60s, and 70s that were printed originally in Ebony and Jet magazines and I just picked out my favorites and I

They're just a lot of beautiful black women doing all the things that beautiful black women do

So I like coming home and seeing beautiful black women doing

their thing. That's what that is. I'm almost left speechless by that response because I agree.

I totally agree. We start each one of our shows is kind of unique

because we have our guest walk us through the arc of their careers and and you

you're currently a correspondent with NBC News and MS NBC and you had a story career as an

author, podcaster, and a journalist. Can you walk us through each of your career

stops since finishing the Harvard? Isn't that how you say it up there in that.

Yeah, that's exactly how we all say it.

So when I graduated from Harvard,

10 days after graduating I moved to New York City to the worst department

you could have been action because I had no money. And I started out as a PA, a production assistant, working with two other correspondence and

writers at the time. One was working on a sort of feminism and politics show and her name's Liz Plank and then the other was

Darnell Moore who you know wrote a lot about you know the black protest movement and

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