Glynda Carr & Howard W. French Tell Us The Truth

Episode 60 : Glynda Carr & Howard W. French

Glynda Carr is the CEO Co-Founder of Higher Heights For America; An organization focused on growing Black Women’s political power from the voting booth to elected office. Listen as Glynda deep dives into the fact Black women remain severely underrepresented as officeholders at the statewide executive level, how the Election of Ayanna Pressley into Congress served as a "Blueprint" for what is proven to be possible and why Higher Heights For America is hopeful regarding further progress in 2022 and beyond. Glynda also opens up about her passion for helping others and what she would tell her Younger Self looking back on the incremental progress she's experienced despite systemic challenges Black Women face in Political Work and Advocacy.

Acclaimed Journalist & Columbia University Professor Howard W. French has a new book; Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War. In the book and during this conversation, Howard is laser focused as he details various ways the United States, England, France and Portugal have all gained enormous through Trans Atlantic Slavery that has lasted to this present day. How hammers these facts home the most clear by deep diving into how Enslaved Africans who cultivated Sugar in the West Indies and Cotton in the Southern United States are what we would refer to today as "killer apps" because of the extreme wealth generated from them. This is one conversation and one book you do NOT want to miss!

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