Hey, it's John B. when this is seen on radio. As I said last time, we're here in this hiatus after season five

Which by the way you've listened right our climate season?

If not, please do it builds on the previous seasons on white supremacy, patriarchy and democracy

while examining the biggest of our multiple urgent crises

During our break this summer, we're doing a little mini season of rebroadcasts

reposting a few of my favorite things including some episodes from the early days of the show that most of y'all haven't heard

This is another episode from that era pre-seeing white early 2016

Alex Babich who is born in Bosnia. They're now just down the road. I'm in Durham

Alex lives in Greensboro, North Carolina

Alex came over to the Center for Documentary Studies in the summer of 2015

Before our advanced audio bootcamp course making it sing, that week they made a version of this piece about their friend

Layla Nour. It's part profile, part tribute. Really, it's a heartfelt audio love letter

In Alex's words, it's the story of a white immigrant troublemaker from Eastern Europe, a black revolutionary musician from New York City

and how one of them saves the other

There is some adult language in the piece, F words and so on just in case you need to know that

In 1991 I was in the first grade in Sarajevo Bosnia

Midway through the year my parents pulled me out of school because suddenly Bosnia was in the midst of a civil war

Soon after that I was wounded by seven shrapnel from a grenade that landed in front of my house

So my mother and I spent the next four years living in an underground bombshell trying our neighborhood

That bet your neighborhood doesn't have one of those

After escaping the war my parents and I came to the United States as refugees

I went to public school, got kicked out of the English as second language program because I talk too much

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