Rutgers professor and black feminist theorist Brittney Cooper with Jasmine Wahi, co-owner/director of Gateway Project Spaces.

Dear President: What You Need to Know About Race - Newark Edition

WNYC News | Jan 30, 2017

“Dear President: What You Need To Know About Race” is WNYC’s post-election series of first-person radio essays by leading thinkers, writers and activists exploring a broad range of personal truths about America to help set a new agenda for racial equality.

In the above audio, hear an afternoon of micro-conversations, hosted by WNYC's Rebecca Carroll, featuring lawmakers, writers, artists and educators, at the Newark Public Library in partnership with Free Press.

CONVERSATIONS LINEUP:

Micro-Conversation 1: New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez and educator A'dorian Murray-Thomas, founder of SHE Wins Inc, exchange ideas on the American dream at large and in Newark.

WNYC's Rebecca Carroll moderates an exchange between Sen. Bob Menendez and A'dorian Murray.
WNYC's Rebecca Carroll moderates an exchange between Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) and A'dorian Murray-Thomas.
(Timothy Karr/Free Press)

Micro-Conversation 2: Rutgers professor and black feminist theorist Brittney Cooper with Jasmine Wahi, co-owner/director of Gateway Project Spaces reflect on the recent Women's March in Washington, D.C., and the difficult, necessary conversations around gender and race activism.

Micro-Conversation 3: New Jersey Congressman Donald Payne with Luso-American poet PaulA Neves discuss tokenism tokenism, identity politics and what it means to be "seen" in a racialized imagination.

 

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