The Lessons of James Baldwin & The Kerner Commission

KPFA - Letters and Politics

English - June 03, 2020 10:00 - 59 minutes - 68.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 232 ratings
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Guests:
Eddie S. Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and chair of African American Studies at Princeton University. Professor Glaude is the author of several books including Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul; his most recent, Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own will be out in August. His latest piece on the Time magazine is George Floyd’s Murder Shows Once More That We Cannot Wait For White America to End Racism.

Christopher S. Parker, professor of African-American studies at Washington university talks about the Kerner Commission.
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Photo source: Wikimedia. James Baldwin, Hyde Park, London, 1969 by Allan Warren. Allan warren / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)
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