Welcome to Karen Hunter's awesome. I am Karen Hunter and today I want to share with you a brief

conversation I had with my mom. Actually, it was a lengthy conversation, but I wanted to pull this

piece out. I've been exploring this ever since November and then January of 2025.

How do we move forward?

What do we do before?

And what does victory look like?

What does liberation look like?

So I'm talking with my mom and I have started my radio show kind of throwing out this

this thought.

Everyone lives somewhere.

Everyone who's listening to my voice, you live somewhere.

What is your responsibility to that neighborhood, your community, to yourself?

How do we show up to make sure that no matter what is happening in the world that we have it?

So in talking with my mom and I'm doing more speaking with my mom publicly because, you know, she's in her 80s and I think it's important to model what it looks like to talk to our elders and really engage with them because there's some insight and wisdom.

And this lady dropped some wisdom today.

She was sharing with me about her time

growing up in the projects in Augusta, Georgia. And I don't think about Augusta Georgia's having

projects, but they do. But in the 50s, the early 50s into the early 60s, there was kind of this

really beautiful thing happening with public housing,

which we've lost on purpose. So in my mom talking about growing up in the projects,

I said, let me share this. But also let me share this with the thought that even those of us

who have family members or those of us who are ourselves are in need, this is what it looks

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