“So my show is going to reach people like me: young people who are engaged, who are paying attention, who care, but who may not be watching TV as regularly,” she says.

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Although she doesn’t want to spend all of her time defending the current administration, Sanders has gone on record calling some of her former boss’ coverage sexist, including a New York Post opinion piece which referred to the VP as “Madam Maytag — the loneliest girl in D.C.” because of her high staff turnover. “My personal opinion is that she is covered in this particular way because she’s the first. She’s something that people have not ever seen anybody like her before: a woman, a Black woman,” she says. “The coverage changes when you are talking about a woman, period.”

Symone viewers should get ready for the host to tell it like it is. In her 2020 book, “No, You Shut Up: Speaking Truth to Power and Reclaiming America,” Sanders inspires readers to fight injustice wherever they face it. And she does it with a confidence that can’t be ignored. Sanders says she developed that confidence while working at a D.C. consumer advocacy think tank. After a rocky start, Sanders says it dawned on her that the only way she would be able to break through would be to say what’s on her mind.

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“One day, I realized everybody else was just saying what they think, what they want, and then we’re cobbling it together and making a strategy. So maybe I just need to start saying what I think, what I want,” she says.

If preparing for the launch of her new show wasn’t enough, Sanders is also getting ready to tie the knot in Mexico with fiancé Shawn Townsend in August.