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Karen Hunter Is Awesome!

My Latest Conversation with Dr. Mary Frances Berry

Karen Hunter Is Awesome!

Women's Empowerment Network

Entrepreneurship, Karen Hunter, Mental Health, Women, Finances, Female Empowerment, Women's Empowerment Network, Society & Culture, Business, Health & Fitness, Entertainment

5.0687 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Icon of Activism, Author, & Professor of American Social Thought & History at the University of Pennsylvania - Dr. Mary Frances Berry.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Karen Hunter is awesome.

0:12.2

I am Karen Hunter, and a lot of how we learn about the world is to our elders.

0:17.5

And I have the honor of sitting with people because I sit behind this microphone and extract goodness and wisdom.

0:27.3

I don't have any grandparents.

0:29.0

All my grandparents are gone.

0:30.4

But I do have people like Mary Francis Berry that I can pick up the phone and at least fight her on to the show because I'm not selfish.

0:36.9

I want everybody to hear what she has to say. She's 88 years old. She's been on this radio show on the Karen Hunter show on Sirius X-N four times. And this last time I invited her on because there was a clip going viral about her talking about Stokely Carmichael and the things she learned from the Black Panthers. And I said, this is a good time to have this conversation again.

0:56.1

So I invited her back and her perspective on these times,

1:01.4

please, please pay attention.

1:04.0

This woman has lived through a lot of things.

1:06.5

And this is different, a little bit different.

1:11.0

But she also gave us a way forward, which I wholeheartedly believe in in its community.

1:16.5

It's us.

1:17.5

Up next, my fourth interview with Mary Francis Berry.

1:21.0

We are here with greatness.

1:22.8

We are here with the legend.

1:23.9

We are here with one of the most brilliant minds, and she's seen a lot.

1:28.4

Dr. Professor Mary Francis Barry. Hey. Hey. the legend we are here with one of the most brilliant minds and she's seen a lot dr. professor mary francis berry hey thank you for having you my absolute pleasure i was i was

1:37.2

talking to myself before i came in that i am living a charmed life i get to talk to some

1:42.3

amazing people on these airwaves and so i was like i get to talk to some amazing people on these airwaves. And so I was like,

1:45.4

I get to talk to Dr. Berry today. And you've seen some things. You've been on this earth.

1:50.8

87 years. 87 years. And you don't stop. But I'm imagining, though, you know, I was talking

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