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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

'The Weeds’: Jonquilyn Hill on Black Women and Policy

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by Jonquilyn Hill, host of Vox’s policy podcast ‘The Weeds’ to discuss the show’s special series on Black women (4:23), before reacting to the Fani Willis hearings (14:49), and giving a peak at what to expect next from the podcast (21:10). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Jonquilyn Hill Producer: Donnie Beacham Jr Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I won't tell you that it's gonna be okay.

0:07.0

I won't tell you that it's going to be okay.

0:15.0

All right and welcome to another episode of McCarty Cellars' podcast.

0:18.0

Shout out to everyone who has voted in the NAACP Image Awards. We-C-P Image Awards.

0:23.0

We're happy to be nominated for having the most amazing podcast ever,

0:27.0

or something like that.

0:28.0

That may not be the category, but you'll find it,

0:29.7

click, vote, do all of those things,

0:31.9

and shout out to the NablacCP Image Awards today

0:35.2

keeping with our our theme of just having brilliant smart people on this show.

0:40.8

We try to have people on here who can leave us with something more than what we came to the

0:46.0

show with we have John Quilland Hill how are you today? I'm good I'm good happy to be

0:51.8

here. Yeah for sure so my show is unique because we ask all of our

0:55.8

guests the same first question which is to walk us through your career talk about your

1:00.4

career arc and you've done quite a bit since finishing Howard.

1:03.2

Can you walk us through each one of your career stops since Howard and the work that you do

1:06.7

now at Vox? Yeah so after graduating from Howard I stayed in DC.

1:13.2

And the first job I got after college

1:15.2

was as a desk assistant at the NBC Washington Bureau.

1:18.7

So, you know, entry level, working on the assignment desk, seeing how sort of all the pieces work together.

1:27.4

After that, I was a producer for what at the time was Time Warner Cable News, but now a spectrum with New York One.

1:35.2

So, you know, producing and doing a lot of behind the scenes work for coverage about Texas,

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