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Guest: Lynne Childress Lynne Childress teaches empathy to children through drama and songs. This subject has been her passion for most of her life because she thinks a lack of empathy comes about because we fail to see each other as equals - or as human beings at all. That hard lesson was passed down through her family's history after her great-grandfather was killed in a racially motivated murder by a local sheriff in South Carolina and the rest of their family was forced to flee to Maryland, where they have lived ever since. Times have changed and Lynne's cousin, Angela Alsobrooks, is now a candidate for United States Senate. Yet, the times are sometimes the same in that people are still mistreating each other, which is evidenced by the schools that contact Lynne requesting that she present her empathy stage play. Finally, if you haven't heard the term "the bees' knees" in a while, this is your opportunity to hear it. Twice.