Welcome to be okay.

Welcome to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast. Today we have some amazing new authors on the show,

or authors of a new book, let me not say new authors, but authors of a new book.

Tolo Olerunipa, I got that right,

because I've been practicing it all day.

And Robert Samuels, they have a new book called his name is

George Floyd and I mean this book is timely and even more importantly about

about timely books it's really well written.

You know, everybody came right, but this book was really, really well written.

We start each one of our shows by having our guests walk us through the arts of their careers and you are both writers and career journalists.

Can you walk us through until we'll start with you first?

The journalistic stops in your various careers.

And at what point in your

lives did you realize that writing and journalism will be your calling.

Oh man that's a good question.

It's a long journey. I grew up in Tallahassee, Florida, home of Florida A&M University. And, you know, growing up there surrounded by educational

brilliance, my parents kind of always had me reading newspapers, watching the news, watching 60 minutes.

And we had a newspaper dropped off at our house every day and it just was part of my life.

And that was the first place I started working at the Tallahassee Democrat right out of high school

doing internships there a couple of internships while I was in college and then I knew I wanted to be a journalist pretty soon after I finished high school and went to college and realized that I couldn't really find myself sticking to one path of doctor, lawyer, one career path I saw in journalism the ability to, you know, sample a lot of different lifestyles, sample a lot of different parts of the culture and hold people to account for what was happening in society shine a light on things that needed to be put into the public square.

And my career took me to Mac in Georgia where I worked for the making

telegraph it took me to Miami Florida where I worked for the Miami Herald the first

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