Hi everyone I'm Brinay Brown and this is unlocking us.

I'm so excited about this conversation today.

You're going to meet Jason Reynolds.

He is a number one New York Times best-selling author of more than a dozen books for young people.

And we're talking about his latest book, Ain't Burned All the Bright, that he wrote with artist Jason Griffin.

This book is art.

I have ordered this book for like so many people you would not even believe.

It is basically three sentences over a couple hundred pages of

art and I haven't, I'm trying to think of how to describe it for y'all.

I wasn't gonna say read or observed or engaged with.

I haven't seen art and words laid out in front of me before that captured so much of

what I've experienced over the last two years.

Like this was so profoundly moving for me.

This conversation was just balm.

I mean, Jason is an incredible human being, a poet, a thinker, an artist, a social observer in kind of the most soulful way.

So I'm so glad you're here and I'm really just

grateful to be able to share this conversation with you.

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