TALKS AND INTERVIEWS  

Delany, Douglass, and the Danger of Political Pessimism, Linfield College, 2018
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Interview: Truth and Faith, The Democracy Test with Neal Conan and Heather Cox Richardson, 2018

Interview: The Habit of Democracy, with Kerri Miller, Elizabeth Shockman, 2018

Round Table Discussion: Black Panther: Shaping Dynamic Futures, Brown University, 2018

Short Lecture and Conversation: America, Racism, and Democratic Faith, Men and Women in Dark Times, with Jeffrey C. Goldfarb and Elzbieta Matynia  New School, 2018

Conversation: Live from the Vault: Rare Recordings of James Baldwin, In Conversation with Brian DeShazor, Mark Taper Auditorium-Central Library, 2016

PUBLIC COMMENTARY

"Democracy Is a Habit: Practice It," Boston Review, July 25, 2018

"The Many Dimensions of Black Panther," Dissent, February 27, 2018

"White Identity and Terror in America: Thinking About the Events of Charlottesville," Public Seminar, August 16, 2017

"White Supremacy, Fear and the Crises of Legitimation: Reflections on the Mistrial in the Murder Case of Walter Scott and the Election of Donald Trump," Public Seminar, January 1, 2017

"Keeping the Faith," Boston Review, November 1, 2017

"On Diamond Reynolds after Dallas," Public Seminar, July 8, 2016

"What Good is History for African Americans?" Boston Review, May 17, 2016

"Race and Dignity: Freedom Can't Be Left to Chance," Boston Review, December 7, 2015 
 
"Between Pain and Despair: What Ta-Nehisi Coates is Missing," Dissent, July 31, 2015

"Social Equality and the Afterlife of White Supremacy," The Contemporary Condition
 


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