Ashley Allison

So that's what ownership means.

When the Route 100 comes out, we didn't put you on the Route 100 because you got arrested.

We put you on the Route 100 because despite the challenges that you faced, you persevered and you still committed to tell our story.

I feel a great weight, and to be honest, yesterday we made, I'll break news here, we made an announcement, we are expanding our newsroom.

It is hard, I don't sleep at night, the team does not sleep at night, but we are hiring a CEO, we are expanding our newsroom, hiring a new editor-in-chief, our current editor-in-chief is gonna be head of web, we're hiring an editor of features, a hirer of products, we have to grow now.

I believe

This is just a chapter in our book.

It's barely that we haven't even hit the plot yet of this story that black folks will write.

And this is not how our story ends.

And to ensure that that power is to have ownership and dictate and determine who, how and when we will tell our story.

But here's the thing.

I think with Black people, it's like...

We was talking about this in the last interview, like how much poverty skews your perception of reality.

Where it's like, even me still, like when they said Charlamagne had got the 2 million, 100 million, I'm like, well, let me get a million dollars, bro.

It's like, bro, this is the company's money, bro.

It's an investment.

It's not like I ain't got 200 liquid.

You know, I talk about that.

Talk about that process of, um,

Are we recording?