What's good, y'all? So before we get the show started this week, we want to tell you about our live show coming up

It's presented by WBEZ and the fest and curated by third coast catch us live at the Harris Theater Friday November 10th

Joining us will be poet scholar artist Chicago's own

Evuying her latest book is called electric arches

We've also invited friend of the show Harry Condo Bolo to kick it with us

He's a comedian. He's a podcast host and now he's a filmmaker

He's going to talk to us about his new documentary the problem with Apu and in case you don't know who Apu is

He's that character on the Simpsons. Mm-hmm

And you can get your tickets for our show online go to info at WBEZ slash events and just a quick heads up

Today's episode of the podcast contains language that some people might find offensive

Okay, let's start the show

They

Can't just be average. They can't they can't have seas. They can't just you know be

Okay citizens come sing you hear that should ask to go that's Charles Curtis

He's the psychologist at a new public high school for young men of color in Washington DC

It's called Ron Brown College preparatory high school the first freshman class of roughly 100 students is almost all black and

Remarkably most of the school's faculty members are black men

And Ron Brown's goal

zero suspensions as much productive classroom time as possible and the expectation of greatness from its students in school

They're called kings and Curtis says and what feels like a little bit of hyperbole here that there should be no such thing as an average king at

Ron Brown

Even if it's there then we fail like that's on us if they ain't tightened up they ain't better than that then that's our bad

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