You ready?

Naisha's on line one.

She's-- You ready, homeboy?

--the one [inaudible] with her dad.

I'm always ready.

OK, press play if you're ready.

Things don't always go the way I want them to go.

But-- OK, you're not ready.

[interposing voices] I'm going to turn your mic on.

Mic's hot.

All right.

OK, and welcome back, welcome back, welcome back!

Welcome back to We Act Radio.

[music playing] Couple colors I think I could do something with, but I don't know about the size.

Ah, hold up, Slim.

Hold up.

There it is.

Hold up.

That's a little tight, but I can get away with it.

Shopping in Anacostia.

Y'all didn't even know.

I actually went to high school, Mount Vernon High School, in Alexandria.

You're from Virginia.

No, I'm not from Virginia.

Yes, you are.

I'm from 624 Kentucky Avenue.

You are from Virginia.

The other side of Pennsylvania Avenue.

That's-- aw, you're from Virginia.

Behind Potomac Ave. Metro Station.

is my grandmother's house.

Is that right?

That's right.

The house I grew up in.

Crack came out when I went to high school, and I was supposed to go to Eastern and somebody got shot, and my grandma saw the body outside.

And that was the end of that.

It was like, hell no.

I was Fresh Prince of Bel-Air before Fresh Prince.

Is that right?

And they shipped me out to my aunt's house in Alexandria, and that's where I had to go high school.

Uh-huh.

And I would go back and forth every weekend.

Uh-huh.

All right?

That's not from Alexandria.

That's right.

You went to high school in Alex-- [music playing] They're here to do what you guys are doing.

They're here to get the story from the indigenous natives before they become extinct.

The city has told us, well, that DC is going to continue to be an expensive city.

Change is coming, and we need to get ready.

A David and Goliath confrontation is coming up between the haves and the have-nots, and all we want is a fair shake.

Because the word is out that the British are coming, the British are coming!

We don't want this to look like 14th Street, you know?

I think 14th Street is fine on 14th Street.

My name is Kymone Freeman, angry black man in therapy, co-founder of We Act Radio here in historic Anacostia-- Welcome, welcome.

Welcome back.

We want to let you know about some things going on in the chess world this Saturday.

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Mute your phone until you hear her introduce you by name, OK?

All right.

One moment.

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Angry black man in therapy.

You're OK.

I'm about to hit the lights.

We make sure that we develop new voices and the young lady right now is a clinical psychologist, and she is talking about mental health issues.

And we are back.

This is Get Your Mind Right, and I'm your host, Sonjiah Davis.

And today we are talking about adoption in-- Every man, woman, and child by the virtue of their humanity has at least one story to tell that the whole world wants to hear.

It's just oftentimes it's the one story that they're most uncomfortable about, the one story they don't want no one to know about.

But that's the one story everybody needs to hear.

Hey, what's up, boss?

What's up, Mr. Freeman?

We're ready for you, man.

OK, man.

I hope there's some money in that box.

It's for you.

It's for you.

It ain't chicken, is it?

Nah.

OK. My cousin was murdered in front of me and bled to death in front of me.

That's when the play time, the party, you know, as Biggie Smalls would say, party and [bleep].

That was over.

That chapter was closed.

[music playing] Right here, you see where the Anacostia building is?

A Walgreens is going in there.

We have a fight on my hands to remove displacement from the equation of gentrification, because it's not like clouds and rain.

It's not a natural occurrence.

Daddy, daddy.

Yo.

Ice cream?

Ice cream, two for five!

We'll get one when we come back, because I got to talk to people, and I can't talk to people if I got ice cream in my hand.

All right, this is Kymone Freeman at We Act Radio.

I'm talking to-- Claudette.

from Columbia.

What brings you out to the Anacostia River Festival?

To get out, do something with the kids.

East of the river, from a developer's dream, is the most valuable real estate opportunity since the Louisiana Purchase, in terms of real dollars.

We're breaking through.

It took us five years to build our audience, and it took us five years to become relevant.

We're sponsoring our first political debate this year, the East of the River debate.

We're going to be asking the tough questions to make sure that we're shaping policy rather than having policy shape Anacostia.

We're not going to go quietly in the dark, so hear us roar.

He had to wear chains, he had to be told what to do.

He was treated worse than an animal, and out of that, he rose to the greatest heights in this country.

He was called the Lion of Anacostia.

I want him to stay alive.

Yeah, I want him to, too.

But because we still sitting here talking about him, he is alive.

He wrote down everything he said so we have a clear picture of his story so we can get it right.

So we can get it right.