As we continue to celebrate Black History Month here in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan,

today we're going to be joined by a few members of war, which is Wolverines Against Racism.

Brianna Nelson, who is the creator of war, is going to stop by and join us, as well as Haven

Sien, as well as Josh Nichols. I'm excited that they were able to stop by

and I think you will enjoy the conversation here on Conquering Heroes.

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Welcome back to Conquering Heroes as we continue to celebrate the month of February, which is back history month.

We are now joined by the creator of war, which is Wolver history month. We are now joined by the creator of

war, which is Wolverines Against Racism. Breonna Nelson, who is on the women's track team, as well as Haven Sien,

who was a junior on the rowing team, and Josh Nichols on the cheerleading team. First of all,

I would like to thank all of you for joining me today. And Brianna, I'll start with you. Why create war? Why create the Wolverines Against Racism?

Yeah. First of all, thanks for having me. War was birthed out of a series of social injustice events and police brutality in the wake of

a lot of civil unrest. We decided that it will be good to just have a community, a consistent

group of people that we could have to lean on and to kind of process these events. It definitely

was difficult seeing everything going on in the media and having to process that alone. And so,

you know, it kind of started with a few unity calls that we did. They were department-wide. And so

we decided to get, you know, coaches, staff,

whoever may want to join on those calls, just to, you know, have a safe space to speak.

I thought that there was a lot of value in that. And from there, that's when I decided that

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