Welcome back to the Learning Curve podcast. I'm your co-host, Alicia Thomas Sersi, and joined by our other co-host, Dr. Albert Chang. Hey, Albert, how are you?

Hey, doing all right. How about you, Alicia? Doing well. There's so much going on, but excited to be hear with you today and talk to our guests.

And I think before we even go into our guests and our story of the day, it would be fitting

to acknowledge that we just lost an icon over in Jesse Jackson.

He passed away in mid-February, but his celebrations were last week. And so,

you know, we take this time to honor his life and his legacy and his contributions to the world.

It's really important, I think, to acknowledge the life and legacy that he lived. I had the great

privilege of working with him in my very

early 20s. I was just out of college and working with the NWACP, and he was in Atlanta quite a bit

because there were fights around trying to protect affirmative action. And so wherever you may fall

on that issue, Jesse Jackson's life was about civil rights,

human rights, and making sure that people had access, right, regardless of their color.

I think a part of his legacy in terms of Rainbow Push, which was the organization that he started

after he ran for president.

And that was legendary.

But it was really about bringing people together and not judging by color or, you know,

by people's background, but just what it meant to be American and what it meant to

believe in the ideals of this country.

And he sacrificed a lot, worked in other countries as well, so his impact

is worldwide. And so we just honor him today and acknowledge his life and his tremendous contributions

to this country and to the world. Yeah, yeah. Thanks for sharing that. And we had not too long ago,

an excellent episode on Martin Luther King, and certainly Jesse Jackson was

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