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Podcast: Listen Up!
Episode: It's About Black People
Description: Our host Interim LUL President & CEO, Lyndon Pryor welcomes Dr. Ricky Jones former Chair of the UofL Pan-African Studies department. Jones divulges his reasons for stepping away from the Dept Chair position and announces his new role with the UofL Christina Lee Brown Envirome Institute as the Baldwin-King Scholar-in-Residence. In what is our longest interview to date, Pryor and Jones volley over political discourse, the future of Black Louisville (and Kentucky), and the rise of anti-intellectualism. Jones speaks freely on why he believes Louisville is at a political apex and in danger of losing its position as Kentucky's last...