Cornel West and Tavis Smiley, best-selling authors and great thinkers on the race narrative, talk about living in a promised America, a country free of racism, inequity, poverty and despair. It’s a conversation made more urgent by one Black man’s unlikely bid, then inspired election as the first Black president.
Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom
One day after Barack Obama’s first visit to the White House as President-elect, we speak to the Pulitzer-winning novelist Alice Walker. In a recent open letter to Obama, Walker writes, “Seeing you take your rightful place, based solely on your wisdom, stamina and character, is a balm for the weary warriors of hope, previously only sung about.â€
With reactions from author Eduardo Galeano, Dr. Vincent Harding, political prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal.
Relevant links: theroot.com, democracynow.org, prisonradio.org.