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FEATURING EVETTE DIONNE - The newest issue of YES! Magazine is arriving in subscriber mailboxes and on newsstands now, chock full of stories and ideas revolving around the idea of “Growth.” Today we’ll get a preview of the Fall 2023 issue of the solutions journalism outlet where Rising Up host Sonali Kolhatkar works as racial justice and civil liberties editor.

Read the full Growth issue starting on August 31 at yesmagazine.org and visit yesmagazine.org/subscribe to get your subscription started.

GUEST: Evette Dionne, Executive Editor at YES! Media where she leads YES! Magazine. She is the former editor-in-chief at Bitch Media, and an award-winning journalist, pop culture critic, and magazine editor who covers culture and politics through the lenses of race, gender, class, and size. Her newest book, Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul, was published in December 2022 and her earlier book is Lifting As We Climb, which was longlisted for a National Book Award and won a Coretta Scott King author honor.