Race and the Black Church in America, Part I

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Barack Obama's speech was supposed to calm the waters concerning controversial comments by his Pastor, It generated more headlines instead. Ruth Seymour joins Reverend James Lawson, Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy, USC Professor Robin D.G. Kelley for a conversation about race. (Part 1 of 2: Part II will air next week at this time.)

Guests:

• James Lawson: Visiting Professor, Vanderbilt University
• Randall Kennedy: Professor of Law, Harvard University
• Robin D.G. Kelley: Professor of American Studies, Ethnicity and History, University of Southern California

Links:

• Martin Luther King, Jr (Foundation)
• Brown v Board of Education (1954)
• The African American Church: Intersection of Race, Religion and Politics, 'To the Point' on
• Leonardo Boff (black liberation theology)
• Tuskegee Experiment, 'The News Hour' on
• Barack Obama's speech on 'a more perfect union'

Host

Ruth Seymour
Ruth Seymour has been the General Manager of KCRW since 1978.  Each year at Hannukah she hosts her signature Yiddish music program, Philosophers, Fiddlers and Fools. She is also a sometime host of The Poltics of Culture.

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Sarah Spitz

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