Marshall here.

Welcome to the Thanksgiving weekend edition of Ari Something Interesting.

My new Saturday podcast dropped on the realignment's feed.

With these episodes, my aim is to speak with interesting people about work and

ideas that don't quite fit into the realignment's weekday policy and

politics theme. Speaking of themes today's episode with Doug Melville perfectly fits the post- Thanksgiving weekend

with its focus on family and ancestral history.

Doug's book is Invisible Generals, discovering family legacy and a quest to honor America's first black

generals. I learned about the Tuskegee airman, the first black military pilots

during World War II back when I was growing up. Doug wrote about them because his relations, Benjamin O Davis

senior and junior, were not only America's first black generals, but they helped build and

lead the unit itself. As I speak pretty frankly about in the

episode as an adopted kid struggling to find my place in black and white culture

and with my own question marks about my, I found Doug's exploration to be really compelling.

I also note that as the US military goes through its own struggles with race and identity during the

20s, exploring how we solved and address these issues

during previous areas of cultural tumult is incredibly useful. You can find

invisible generals at our bookshop linked in your podcast show notes.

A quick note, even though the show took Thanksgiving off, I'll be back with our next

Supercast Ask Me Anything episode tomorrow, so if you'd like to take a full

listen to that episode submit your own questions and support the show, go to

realignment. supercast.com. Doug Melville, welcome to Ari something interesting.

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