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

Welcome back to our new eight-part series that I'm calling on my heart and mind. We kicked off the

series with my conversation with Valerie Core on the power of

revolutionary love and being a sage warrior. I am loving seeing the feedback from people that

listen to the conversation and read the book. It's just hope and love in book format. So really an invitation to pick up her new book,

Valry Corps, Sage Warrior. In the series I'm also going to be talking to my favorite cultural critic along with Bell Hooks.

Roxanne Gay, we're talking about black gun ownership.

Dr. Mary Claire Haver and I are talking about menopause. My sisters and I will be talking

about grief, love, and unexpected joy. As many of you know, my mom died on Christmas morning this past year and it's been a very hard three or four years through her dementia diagnosis, something we just caught us off guard and

then kicked our ass for many, many, many, many months.

And so we're going to share some of what we learned

about ourselves, about each other, about grief, and about our mom.

Today I am talking to someone that you may remember from an unlocking Us episode, Dr. Sarah

Lewis.

So I talked to Sarah Lewis, I don't even remember how long it would, maybe two years about her book The Rise, which has gone down in history as one of the big life changers for me, especially some pieces that are actually related to her new book.

Her new book is called The Unseen Truth,

When Race Changed a Site in America.

I will tell you that as expected,

Dr. Sarah Lewis is the most disorienting person. She's a historian. She's just a lot of different things that come together in a way that make you question everything you thought you knew.

I just love her work.

Her new book, The Unseen Truth, When Race Change Side in America, took her over 10 years to write. It

uncovers a pivotal era in the story of race in the United States when Americans were

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