Make Room For New (with Samantha Tweedy)
Pod Save the People
Pod Save the People
4.7 • 8.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
DeRay, Kaya and De'Ara cover the underreported news of the week— including a documentary honoring Black women's World War II contributions, racial disparity in access to COVID treatment, and women more likely to die after operation by male surgeons. DeRay interviews Samantha Tweedy about her life experience and current work as president of the Black Economic Alliance Foundation.
News:
DeRay https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jan/04/women-more-likely-die-operation-male-surgeon-study
Kaya https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katiecamero/covid-treatment-inequality
De’Ara https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/12/31/black-rosies-world-war-ii/
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, this is Drey and we're going to post it to people in this episode. |
| 0:06.8 | It's me, Kaya, DR, as usual. |
| 0:09.9 | Talking about the news that you don't know from the last week, news that you should know, |
| 0:13.1 | news about race, justice, and equity that just didn't make the headlines but impacted |
| 0:16.8 | people's lives. |
| 0:17.8 | And then I sit down with the one and only Samantha Tweety who leads the Black Economic Alliance |
| 0:22.0 | Foundation to talk about her work closing the racial wealth gap across the country and |
| 0:26.4 | a new organization that is built to do just that. |
| 0:30.2 | Here we go. |
| 0:32.2 | My advice for this week is to make sure there's space for new people to any of your life, |
| 0:35.0 | honor the relationships you have but also be open to meeting dope and credible people |
| 0:39.0 | I'm building with them. |
| 0:40.4 | You know, I've been, I've traveled, you know, a little bit more than I traveled for the |
| 0:44.3 | past two years more recently and I've met some amazing people like in passing and I'm |
| 0:49.6 | so thankful that there's still room for my life to meet new people because goodness, |
| 0:53.3 | there's so many great people out there. |
| 0:54.5 | So make room for new people too, honor the relationships you have, keep them intact |
| 0:59.4 | and make room for new people. |
| 1:01.2 | Here we go. |
| 1:04.2 | Family, welcome to another episode of Pod Save, the people. |
| 1:11.1 | Welcome back. |
| 1:12.1 | I'm DR a Balinger. |
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