The Backlash to Racial Progress

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jul 6, 2023

Wesley Lowery, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the author of American Whitelash: A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress (Mariner Books, 2023), talks about the cycle of progress followed by racial violence throughout American history and its most recent return following the election of Pres.Obama in 2008.

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