Talking about Race: Resources & Reads for Students
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Part 1: Where Do We Go From Here? | OWN Spotlight | Oprah Winfrey Network
Part 2: Where Do We Go From Here? | OWN Spotlight | Oprah Winfrey Network
Oprah Winfrey leads the conversation speaking directly with Black thought leaders, activists and artists about systematic racism and the current state of America. Featured guests include: Stacey Abrams, Charles M. Blow, Keisha Lance Bottoms, Ava DuVernay, Jennifer Eberhardt, Nikole Hannah-Jones, Ibram Kendi, David Oyelowo, Rashad Robinson and Bishop William J. Barber II.
Recorded on March 12, 2020, Trevor Noah of the Daily Show interviews authors Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi who share how their book “Stamped” aims to illuminate racism in America in an unconventional and stimulating way.
Author Elizabeth Acevedo at The Summit on Inequality & Opportunity (Aspen Institute, March 2017) speaks about her experiences in graduate school as the only Afro-Latinx student in the Creative Writing program.
In this interview, The Daily Show host Trevor Noah talks to author Angie Thomas about the inspiration for her books The Hate U Give and On the Come Up. March 6, 2019.
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.