E999: Rushion Interviews White House Correspondent and CNN Political Analyst April Ryan pay tribute to black women who paved the way!

On this episode of Money Making Conversations Master Class I speak with CNN political analyst and DC bureau chief for TheGrio, April Ryan. April Ryan is the longest-serving black female white house correspondent. We discuss her new book and the experience growing up in an HBCU.Topics CoveredWhat inspired you to write Black Women Will Save the World: An Anthem (Amistad/HarperCollins, October 2022) now?In your book, you state Black women make the extraordinary ordinary. Why does America need to be saved?Your book celebrates the truth of “founding mothers,” like Harriet Tubman and Ida B. Wells. What does that term mean to the “anthem” that is your book?Your book also pays tribute to today’s “sheroes,” like powerful Black women, such as VP Kamala Harris, Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Bottoms and Supreme Court Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson. How can they lead in the fight over hot-button issues like the overturning Roe v. Wade and maternal deaths of Black women? We are still investigating the Jan 6th insurrection. How did that day affect you? More April RyanWhite House Correspondent April Ryan has a unique vantage point as the only black female reporter covering urban issues from the White House – a position she has held for 25 years, since the Clinton era. Her position as a White House Correspondent has afforded her unusual insight into the racial sensitivities, issues, and attendant political struggles of our nation’s past presidents. April can be seen on CNN. She is also the Washington D.C Bureau Chief on TheGrio. She has been featured in Essence, Vogue, Cosmopolitan and Elle magazines – to name a few. April Ryan has served on the board of the prestigious White House Correspondents Association. She is one of only three African Americans in the Association’s over 100-year history to serve on its board. She is also an esteemed member of the National Press Club. In 2015, Ms. Ryan was nominated for an NAACP Image Award (Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author) for her first book. 2016 National Council of Negro Women, Mary McCloud Bethune Trailblazer.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.