Akilah Hughes

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

And he said, Mama, I'm going to die in Louisiana if I don't leave.

I have a better chance if I go to enlist in the army.

Every time we lift the country up, change it to uphold its promise, people tear it down.

Right.

most sensible people understand what is happening akilah i mean we have we're supposed to have a representative democracy and we have watched you know kind of ironically this republican party go on all these news programs and decry the fact that in virginia they voted to reroute the maps

and, you know, be upset with California for voting for that.

And here we have a Supreme Court saying gerrymandering is fine.

Now, the Democratic Party has been fighting to get rid of to make gerrymandering illegal forever.

And they won't join them in that because that's the only way they can win is by taking away the power from the people, is by limiting civil rights, is by going back in time to make America great.

And so I think that

Everyone who has brought it up today is is repeating something that I think is really important, which is like they wouldn't be doing this if it wasn't the only way they could get ahead.

I do think that voting still matters.

I think it mattered in 2024.

I think it matters in special elections.

I think that we need to be fighting not only to get people to the polls, but like fighting for our right to continue to vote.

But this is also just the beginning.

You know, and I I don't believe that like letting the worst thing happen is a strategy.

So I think that we got to educate everyone around us.

We got to talk to our ugly, racist relatives and make it uncomfortable at dinner.

We got to, you know, shake the table a little bit.

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