Akilah Hughes

speaker

365 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 1 May

Akilah Hughes’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 2 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 1.

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The Don Lemon Show · Things Are Getting Bad, White People Need to Step Up! · 1 May 2026 podcast

Thanks, Jamie.

Yeah.

The people that make this country work are the people that they are abusing.

It's low-income white, it's low-income black, it's low-income Hispanics and Asian.

and vote for the right person and to release the Epstein stories.

All he's doing is trying to deviate from that story.

No, I mean, I think that this is really beautiful that you've brought all of these people together, that everyone is able to like voice their opinions and feel like they can really be heard and talk about it.

Oh, I can't hear that woman that's talking.

But in any case, I think that, you know, it's just really special what you all have.

And so I hope that I can maintain, you know, the positivity and you guys can show up for each other in your lives.

I wanted to talk about the Voting Rights Act.

I'm really, really angry.

And I just wrote about this in my sub stack where I'm about to put it up, how historically the Supreme Court has always, historically, like, reinforced racism in this country.

There are several cases where they just uphold a lot of the Jim Crow laws and they're still doing it.

a majority of white people have created a system where they're always just reinforcing and keeping the systemic racism alive through laws.

I think that if we don't, as a nation, face this fact, we are always going to be coming to the same thing over and over and over again.

My grandparents worked as sharecroppers when they were young.

My grandfather, in order to get out of Louisiana, because he felt he was going to die,

begged his mother to sign the papers for him to go enlist in the army because he was underage.

She didn't want to do it because she felt he was going to die in the war.

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