Race in America: 2017 National Book Festival

Michael Eric Dyson presents "Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America" and Ibram X. Kendi presents "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America" in a panel discussion at the 2017 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.
Speaker Biography: Michael Eric Dyson is a professor of sociology at Georgetown University, an ordained minister, a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times and a contributing editor for The New Republic and ESPN's "The Undefeated." He won the NAACP Image Award for outstanding literary work in nonfiction for his books "Why I Love Black Women" and "Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?" along with the American Book Award for "Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster." His most recent book, "Tears We Cannot Stop: A Sermon to White America," expands upon his July 2016 New York Times op-ed on whiteness in America and the grief and rage that engulfed black America after the police killings of black Americans.
Speaker Biography: Ibram X. Kendi is an award-winning historian, a best-selling author, a professor of history and international relations and the founding director of the Anti-Racist Research and Policy Center at American University. From 2010 to 2011 he was the American Historical Association's J. Franklin Jameson Fellow in American History at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress. His best-selling book, "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America," was the winner of the 2016 National Book Award for nonfiction.
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