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The Michael Steele Podcast

Turning Toward Each Other, Not On Each Other: With Karen Hunter

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Karen Hunter speaks with Michael Steele about seeing the human in each other, what it means to be free in America and what writing autobiographies for celebrities has taught her about our shared human experience. The pair also discuss how the word "woke" has evolved and what Damar Hamlin's injury says about the NFL and about America.

Karen Hunter is a best-selling author, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the host of The Karen Hunter Show on Sirius XM Urban View Channel 126, which airs M-F from 3-6pmET.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome to the Michael Still podcast happy new year by the way. Have you ever met someone

0:06.6

And said oh they gonna change the game. They did they just go and change the game

0:12.6

Well my guest today on the podcast

0:15.3

Is that person Karen Hunter? She is the host of the Karen Hunter show on serious XM urban view channel

0:23.8

126 from 3 to 6 p.m. Eastern

0:25.8

And on her program she challenges her listeners to actually participate in the success they want to see and want to be

0:35.4

And she lives that out in fact in her own career

0:39.2

She spent 16 years at the New York Daily News where she earned a pure surprise

0:45.1

One of the only black women at the time walking around town with one of those as well as a poke award

0:51.4

For her work in journalism

0:55.8

And now teaching

0:59.4

At NYU and and Hunter college where she is currently

1:06.0

Giving back to the community and I think you're going to find our conversation

1:11.8

An important one as we begin this new year kind of setting. I think a real positive tone for for how things

1:19.0

Are out there and how we can have a better hand in

1:24.6

determining the outcome of good things. So sit back relax get ready for a great conversation with Karen Hunter right here on the Michael Steel podcast

1:35.5

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2:12.3

Well Karen Hunter happy new year and welcome to the Michael Steel podcast

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