Hey friends, see something, say something is heading to Michigan, which is my home state.

We're going to be putting on a live show at the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn on

Saturday, August 12th at 7.30 p.m. So put that in your calendar. I'll be interviewing sci-fi writer

and Marvel comics writer Saladin Ahmed.

And then we'll also talk with a panel of super smart, local Michigan people doing cool work in the area,

lawyer and Muslim art co-founder Numerah Islam, racial justice and human rights activist Asha Noor,

and a Yomish professor and scholar of Arab and Muslim American studies, Evelyn Olsultani.

So mark the live show on your calendar for Saturday, August 12th at 7.30 p.m.

Follow see something, say something on Facebook and Twitter if you want information for when those tickets go on sale.

So if you can't for when those tickets go on sale.

So, if you can't make it to Michigan and you're feeling left out,

we've prepared a little sneak peek of season three.

This is from an episode where we talk to academic and author, an all-around cool person,

Suad of the Chabir, about her new book, Muslim Cool, and the intersections between race, hip-hop, blackness, and Islam. And growing up in Brooklyn.

I think about hip-hop and activism in New York, in general too too, not just Brooklyn. And, like, for me, particularly one of the ways that came up a lot was in the movement against apartheid. And so, you know, like, kicks, like, seekers are really big in hip-hop, but we were all like, boy, kind of Reebok, you know? Because Reebok was divest from South Africa. So you had kind of anti-apartheid kind of movement and hip-hop being really around that,

but also against police brutality and like when Yusuf Hawkins was killed.

And, you know, so there was this way in which there was a consciousness, right,

that really kind of permeated the period in the time.

And there was no, like, disconnect, right? Because to be black and Muslim

meant to be concerned about black people. And to be hip-hop meant to be concerned about black

people. That was the reality. And so you did that in how you dressed, what you wore, what you

didn't wear, what you ate, what you didn't eat, you know, you know, where you go, where you don't go, you know, this kind of thing.

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