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In Honor of Black History Month, all February,

this podcast will be dedicated to featuring African Americans

whose voices and perspectives you need to hear.

We'll have a new episode every Tuesday, but if you're a fan of the podcast, you know we feature

prominent black voices all year long,

so we've chosen a few older episodes to republish every Thursday

to reacquaint you with some of them.

Just because Black History Month is over

doesn't mean that Black history stops being made,

Black voices go silent, and Black people become invisible.

That invisibility, particularly if African American women, is an issue issue as journalists and author April Ryan discussed

on the podcast last year. April Ryan thanks for being here. Anytime you call I will come so your

book is called at m's Knee, Mothers and Race and Black and

White. Why did you feel compelled to write this book? Because I'm a mother who

has to deal with issues of race talking to my two little beautiful

girls 14 and 9. It hit home. I mean in the morning Jonathan when I'm getting up

and getting those girls ready to go to school. I'm watching the news

before we go and they're like, is that real? You know, I've had to explain ISIS all

sorts of things and the realities of life hit us. when Tamir Rice was shot to death.

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