Damon Young on Writing & New Podcast 🎙️

Bakari Sellers is joined by writer and cofounder of Very Smart Brothas, Damon Young to discuss the creation and sale of his popular website (:46), why his 2019 book What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker hasn’t been banned yet (4:05), and the launch of his new podcast, Stuck With Damon Young (12:21).

Host: Bakari Sellers
Guest: Damon Young
Producer: Donnie Beacham
Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt

Website: www.bakarisellers.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bakarisellers
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/Bakari_Sellers
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bakarisellers

Bakari Sellers made history in 2006 when, at just 22 years old, he defeated a 26-year incumbent State Representative to become the youngest member of the South Carolina state legislature and the youngest African American elected official in the nation. His political career did not stop there. In 2014, Sellers won the Democratic nomination for Lt. Governor in South Carolina, and has also worked for United States Congressman James Clyburn and former Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin.

Sellers is the author of The New York Times best-selling book My Vanishing Country: A Memoir, which has been described as part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis – illustrating the lives of America’s forgotten black working-class men and women. He has also expanded his audience with the Bakari Sellers Podcast, a twice-a-week show part of The Ringer Podcast Network that addresses a variety of topics. He is also a prominent political contributor for CNN.