Vanguard, how black women overcame barriers vanguard how black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all this book is fascinating. You have to get it. It starts with doctor joneses grandmother, soucie jones, and i must admit i have not finished the book, but it has Amazing Stories of women who really have made a difference. We look forward, dr. Jones, to hearing your story. So let me just tell you a little bit about doctor jones. She was born in Central Harlem and was originally trained as an attorney and was working on social justice issues after being trained at in new york. So at the law school, she became a Public Interest lawyer and spent nearly ten years representing homeless people, people with mental illness, People Living with aids. And in 1994, she was awarded fellowship on the future of the city of new york at Columbia University based on her lawyering work. And there, her career took an interesting turn as she was drawn to the research and writing
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How identity and politics and surviving the land of the free is so important this webber hustings conversation and during this hour will have a lively discussion that includes to the most articulate analysts of American Culture today. Author of this book is Mike Gonzalez and host into the most popular podcast in america. Following the conversation between mike and michael. We will do q a session which i will moderate. Stony point during the program, if you think of something that you would like to ask either of both of them, send the question in the questions box. Be sure to tell us your name and where you are tuning in from. We will answer as any questions as we can in the time the week up. Before we get to the discussion between mike and michael, i want to introduce a special guest to kick off the program. The special guest is Heritage Foundation president missus k james. Missus james, the floor is yours. Good morning. I am so excited to welcome you to the Heritage Foundation and to