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Hi everyone.

Sophia Bush here.

Welcome to Work in Progress, where I talk to people who inspire me about how they got to where they are and where they think they're still going.

I'm going. Good day, Whips Marties.

Today we're going to depart from our normal schedule,

and we're actually going to re-air a podcast that came out last year. Back in August of 2019,

I was lucky enough to interview Dr. Melina Abdullah. She is a recognized expert on race, gender,

class, and social movements. She was a founding member of Black Lives Matter and continues to serve as a Los Angeles chapter leader. She is a womanist, a scholar, an activist, a mother, and a friend. She is an

incredible author, and she is a person that I learn an incredible amount from in terms of how to show up, disparity in the system, and what

we can all do about it. In the wake of continued police brutality, in the wake of understanding

that police brutality is a public health crisis.

And in the wake of horrific videos like that of the death of Amad Arbery,

the murder of George Floyd,

and in our understanding that Brianna Taylor,

an EMT, a first responder caring for COVID patients,

was executed by police in her apartment.

We have work to do.

We have things to confront.

I say we because I am including myself as a white woman.

And my hope is that all of you will join us today to listen to this episode as we re-air it with no ads just because we

know it is the right thing to do. You won't hear from sponsors. You will just hear from Dr.

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