Notes on Race and Resegregation with Jeff Chang, Anna Holmes, and Nikole Hannah-Jones
Thursday 22 September, 2016
7:30pm, $0
Greenlight Books
686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
In his new collection of provocative, powerful essays, acclaimed writer and journalist Jeff Chang(author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop and Who We Be) takes an incisive and wide-ranging look at the recent tragedies and widespread protests that have shaken the country. Through deep reporting with key activists and thinkers, passionately personal writing, and distinguished cultural criticism, We Gon’ Be Alright links #BlackLivesMatter to #OscarsSoWhite, Ferguson to Washington D.C., the Great Migration to resurgent nativism, arguing that resegregation is the unexamined condition of our time, and its undoing is the key to moving the nation forward to racial justice and cultural equity. In his only New York appearance for the book, Chang discusses these urgently relevant ideas with a panel of writers and thinkers, including Jezebel.com founder Anna Holmes, New York Times Magazine investigative journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones, and others.