Facts Are Non-Negotiable, Framing Is A Choice

The Most Important Question · Oct 19, 2026 · 1h 43m · transcript

What is the price of exclusion?

Well, if your family paid the price, if your people were ever left out of a textbook you don't need this new book to tell you.

But the title is just the verdict. The book is the evidence. It is the names, the dates, the receipts, and in this case, one family story that somebody dug up before it disappeared. My guest has a name for that work.

It is ancestral intelligence. Her book belongs alongside The Warmth of Other Suns and How the Word is Passed by Clint Smith, who has also been on this show.

So here's the question: What can I do about a history I think I…