Ep 20 - Cleveland Sellers

On his 20th episode, Bakari sits down in-studio with his father, Cleveland Sellers. Their bond is obvious and powerful. This intimate conversation not only offers a first-hand account of the civil rights movement from an amazingly brave activist who was there, but also serves as the passing of the torch from a father to his son.

Cleveland Sellers, Jr. is an American educator and veteran civil rights activist.

During the Civil Rights Movement, Sellers helped lead the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was the only person convicted and jailed for events at the Orangeburg Massacre, a 1968 civil rights protest in which three students were killed by state troopers. Sellers' conviction and the acquittal of the other nine defendants was believed to be motivated by racism, and Sellers received a full pardon 25 years after the incident.

Sellers is the former Director of the African American Studies Program at the University of South Carolina. He served as president of Voorhees College, a historically black college in South Carolina, from 2008 to 2015