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Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

Soledad O’Brien on ‘Disrupt and Dismantle’

Larry Wilmore: Black on the Air

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Larry is joined by journalist and producer Soledad O’Brien to discuss her tv series ‘Disrupt and Dismantle’ (08:00), environmental racism (10:00), the death of local journalism (17:00), and much more. Host: Larry Wilmore Guest: Soledad O’Brien Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:19.5

Hey everybody, welcome back. You're listening to Black On The Air. This is Larry Womor.

0:24.2

You're a host of the podcast. One of my favorite people in journalism, Soledad O'Brien, is my guest today.

0:33.4

Man, it's always great talking to her. She's just great. Just awesome. She was on my show Wilmore too.

0:40.1

And it was one of our favorite episodes. And we're going to talk about a new show she's doing.

0:45.7

Now called Disrupt and Dismanto. It's on BET and some other Viacom outlets.

0:51.0

Man, she really covers some interesting things about things like environmental racism,

0:58.1

school deprism, pipeline, some land issues that have been systemic, things like that,

1:05.7

police in Chicago, all kinds of stuff. It's a really, really, really interesting show that is going to be out soon.

1:12.9

So we have a good conversation about some of that stuff. Her thoughts on journalism and things that are going on.

1:18.3

I think you guys will enjoy it. So I don't have a lot today. I don't know why. My tank is just today.

1:23.8

It's been an emotional week, guys. I told you after my brother died January 30th,

1:30.2

we finally were able to bury him last Monday. Crazy, crazy, crazy. It took so long.

1:36.2

That was very emotional, but it was good to have closure in that.

1:40.0

To be able to move on, there have been other family members, some cousins and stuff,

1:47.4

couple of cousins that passed away this past week and the other side of my family. My ex-wife

1:53.9

her aunt passed away. She was great, ladies. So there's been a lot of that happening here in my family.

2:00.0

So I realized today, I can feel it. It's been an emotional week, man.

2:06.8

But a lot of those emotions are kind of, I think they're kind of like,

2:11.5

cleansing sometimes to the obey, but get it out and spend time with family when you can.

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