It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. And for this summer Friday,

we've put together some recent conversations and it just a bit for clarity and time,

including our Pride Month

conversations, two of them, with Dr. Jack Turbin, about the inner lives of and care for transgender

kids. D.W. Gibson on the 1999 Seattle protests against the World Trade Organization and how

they set the stage for subsequent activism and the police response to

them. Shima Oliahi, the host and creator of the podcast, The Competition, about high-achieving

teen girls. And we start here with Ali Valshi, who joins us to talk about his new book, Small

Acts of Courage, a legacy of endurance and the fight for democracy.

Some of you know Allie from his MSNBC show, Saturday and Sundays, 10 a.m. to noon.

Great time to host a news talk show, 10 a.m. to noon.

He is also their chief correspondent and does go out and cover stories. He also hosts the Friday night 10 p.m. hour, the last word, which Lawrence O'Donnell hosts on the other

nights of the weekdays. Allie also hosted the recent podcast series called the Velshi Band Book Club.

It was great. He was editor of the book, The Trump Indictments, for which he wrote an introduction

to the actual text of all 91 pending criminal counts

against the former president. He also read them out loud in full as a podcast. He's been an anchor

on Al Jazeera America and a business channel host for CNN. Again, the new book is called

Small Acts of Courage, a legacy of endurance and the fight for democracy.

And before we bring Elie on, I'll just say it's quite a story of his and his family's personal experiences as they've connected to world events.

His great-grandfather lived in an ashram run by Mahatma Gandhi.

His parents fled South Africa for Kenya because

of apartheid. Ali grew up mostly in Canada. His father got elected to office there, and Ali happened to be

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