And the Neil degrass Tyson is one of the most brilliant people alive but when we finally

got together for an interview I didn't want to talk to him about science I

want to talk about almost anything else so we get into who he is and we get deep

about how race has impacted his life. The book concludes with a tribute, can we say, to your father?

Yeah, yeah, sorry, a eulogy, yes.

Yes. And, you know, I lost my dad last year.

Oh, when did your dad pass?

Three years ago.

Three years ago.

And you honor him beautifully.

Can you tell us about him and how? honor him

and how he leads into you,

how sort of the way you sort of take from him

to become who you are?

Yeah, so my parents were married 60, 64 years until his death.

To the end, right. And we had a stable household. My mother was a housewife, homemaker today I guess we would call that, until we were

empty nest and she went back to school. That was by agreement by the way. So the

agreement was my father would continue working and then my mother would raise

the children at home.

There were three of you?

Yes.

And birth and raise the children.

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